Human Impact on the Environment

Which human activity decreases the amount of land space available for other living organisms?

• Using fertilizers

• Building larger cities

• Air Pollution

• Air Pollution

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Which of the following would have the most biodiversity?

• undisturbed wetland

• Farmland

• drained wetland

• City

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How have human activities affected extinction rates of living organisms?

• Extinction rates are higher than would be normally expected.

• Living organisms no longer go extinct

• Extinction rates of living organisms are about the same.

• Extinction rates are lower than would be normally expected.

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Which of these human actions is most harmful to a lake ecosystem?

• Making rules to limit the amount of fishing in the lake

• Allowing pollution to enter the lake from nearby farms

• Researching plants and animals that live in the lake

• Making rules to limit the speed of boats on the lake

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Which of the following is NOT a major way that human activity impacts other living things?

• Breathing too much oxygen

• Overharvesting

• Destruction of habitats

• Pollution

Which of the following can lead to the deaths of large numbers of animals in an area?

• All the above

• People polluting the land

• People taking the land to build new houses.

• People removing too many nutrients from the land.

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Which is the best way to manage the use of trees?

• cut down most of the trees from forests

• plant a tree each time one is cut down

• recycle less paper

• build more lumber mills for cutting up trees into wood

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What habitat is destroyed through humans using clear-cutting and slash-and-burn agriculture?

• Tropical rainforests

• Temperate grasslands

• Subtropical deserts

• Savannas

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Removal of covering vegetation from a hillside may cause what?

• Earthquakes on hillside

• Erosion of soil on hillside

• Increased soil on hillside

• Reduction of nitrogen dioxide from the hillside

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TRUE OR FALSE Roads protect the soil from erosion.

• True

• False

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