How Do Environmental Changes Affect Living Things?

Nonliving things like water, wind, etc... can change the environment. But living things can also cause changes.

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..................... is when small pieces of rock are carried away by water and sometimes by wind.

• Erosion

• Drought

• Flood

• Wild fire

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.............. is a large amount of water that covers normally dry land. It can happen very suddenly.

• An erosion

• A flood

• A drought

• Fire

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Fires can be caused by a natural event, like lightning. Fires can also be caused by people.

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What most likely caused this ecosystem change?

• drought

• erosion

• fire

• flood

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What causes a drought?

• moving water

• no rainfall

• too much rainfall

• cold weather

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Changes to an environment may make it more difficult for an organism to find-

• food.

• shelter.

• water.

• all of the above

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Write the missing effect for the picture.

Cause (reason): wildfire

Effect (result): ........................................................

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Write the missing cause for the picture.

Cause: .................................

Effect: People and animals must look for new places to live. Plants wilt and die.

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Write the missing effect for the picture.

Cause: trash

Effect: ........................................................

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