EaSp: Human Impact on the Environment

This is a pattern of growth in which a population grows faster as it increases in size.

• carrying capacity

• S growth

• exponential growth

• logistic growth

The number of organisms that any given environment can support is the _____________________.

• carrying capacity

• density-independent factor

• exponential growth

• reclamation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Environmental factors that do not depend on population size, such as storms and fires is called _____________________.

• tailings

• carrying capacity

• density dependent factors

• density-independent factors

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Environmental factors that depend on population size, such as disease, predators, and competition for food are called ______________.

• capacity factors

• density-dependent factors

• density independent factors

• logistic factors

The extraction of mineral ores often involves grinding parent rock to separate the ore. The material left after the ore is extracted is called ___________. Sometimes these release toxic elements such as mercury and arsenic into the groundwater or surface water.

• leftovers

• tailings

• reclamation

• extractants

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

In the US, the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 requires mining companies to restore the land to its original contours and to replant vegetation in a process called _____________________.

• restoration

• replantation

• origination

• reclamation

The removal of trees from a forested area without adequate replanting.

• reclamation

• denuding

• strip mining

• deforestation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

The use of organisms to clean up or break down toxic wastes is called _________________.

• bioremediation

• reclamation

• bioreclamation

• bioagrism

A type of air pollution that forms mainly from automobile exhaust in the presence of sunlight is called ___________.

• photochemical smog

• carbon dioxide pollution

• sulfur dioxide pollution

• photosynthesis toxicants

The use of CFC's and other chemicals were depleting the ______________.

• ozone layer

• carbon layer

• mesosphere

• exosphere