ESU 2 #4 Tech Check

What are two benefits of soil?

• Provides a habitat for organisms and stores water and nutrients

• Produces oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide

• Generates electricity and provides minerals

• Supports plant growth and creates fossil fuels

What is a natural resource?

• A man-made material used by people

• A natural material that is used by people

• A synthetic resource created in laboratories

• A resource that cannot be used by humans

What is a non-renewable resource?

• A resource that can be replaced as quickly as it is used

• A natural resource that is used much faster than it can be replaced

• A resource that is never used by humans

• A resource that is always available

What is a renewable resource?

• A resource that can never be replaced

• A natural resource that can be replaced as quickly as the resource is used

• A resource that is used faster than it can be replaced

• A resource that is not used by people

What is the process of protecting the environment from harmful activities called?

• Urbanization

• Land degradation

• Preservation

• Drought

What term describes an increase in the proportion of a population living in urban areas rather than in rural areas?

• Preservation

• Urbanization

• Land degradation

• Dust Bowl

What is the process of damaging land through human activity or natural processes known as?

• Urbanization

• Preservation

• Land degradation

• Drought

What was the Dust Bowl?

• A period of heavy rainfall

• A series of volcanic eruptions

• A period of severe dust storms in the 1930s

• A large-scale deforestation event

What is a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall leading to a shortage of water called?

• Urbanization

• Drought

• Preservation

• Dust Bowl

What is the wise use and preservation of natural resources called?

• Deforestation

• Stewardship

• Conservation

• Desenification