Environmental Changes Task Cards

To make different

• predict

• change

• environment

  
  

An organism is a living thing.

• True

• False

Living organisms, including humans, can change their environment.

• True

• False

  
  

An example of a good change is

• a species can increase

• pollution kills animals

• too many rabbits eat all the plants

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

We cannot predict the effect of changes to the environment caused by organisms.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

When a change occurs, organisms will

• only adapt

• adapt, migrate, or die

• migrate or die

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

How would building a highway affect an environment?

• salt water pollutes fresh water

• marine life is threatened

• animals cannot travels through their ecosystems the same

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

A hurricane coming on land can affect the fresh water source in an area.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

To forecast the result or take an educated guess at the effects of one thing on another

• ecosystem

• overpopulation

• predict

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

If a coyote disease decreases the coyote population, then

• the pond floods.

• crops are wiped out.

• the mice population explodes.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4