Ocean Impact Quiz

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Even if you don’t live near one of Earth’s oceans, they still impact you. Pick three ways the oceans impact or affect humans every day.

• Weather

• Climate

• Oxygen

• Carbon Dioxide

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Name two ways that we can help keep our oceans healthy.

• Stop overfishing

• recycle/lower pollution

• travel to another country

• stop tsunamis

• add water to the oceans from our lakes.

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Which ocean is closest to where you live?

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Looking at the maps of the Earth and North America, how could environmental impacts from people living in northern South America affect the east coast of the United States?

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Using the map of river systems in Texas, how could someone living away from the ocean in Texas still impact the Gulf of Mexico and eventually the Atlantic Ocean?

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What are large bodies of saltwater that are on the surface of the Earth called?

• ponds

• oceans

• lakes

• reservoirs

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Which of the following is NOT a way that humans negatively impact Earth’s oceans?

• chemical pollution

• overfishing

• protecting marine plants and animals

• plastic pollution

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The Earth’s ​ ​ (a)   are critical to humans in many ways. We not only depend on oceans for ​​ (b)   like seafood we eat, but also depend on them for our water supply, creating oxygen, the

​ (c)   of carbon dioxide and for the ​ (d)   of goods and people. Ocean problems do not just affect the people that live along the coasts, they affect every living organism on Earth! Humans need to limit the negative ​ (e)   we have on the oceans so future generations have what they need for survival!

• transportation
• impacts
• sustenance
• oceans
• absorption

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Are the following items HUMAN IMPACT or HUMAN DEPENDENCE?

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(a) Human Impact

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(b) Human Dependence

• water

• Habitat Destruction

• Transportation of goods

• Surface Runoff

• Chemical Pollution

• Overfishing

• Oxygen

• food

• Plastic Pollution

• Transportation of people

• Ocean Acicification

• recreation activities

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What percentage of Earth’s protein comes from the oceans?

• 50%

• 20%

• 90%

• 60%