Understanding Our Environment

Understanding Our Environment

12th Grade

15 Qs

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Understanding Our Environment

Understanding Our Environment

Assessment

Quiz

Science

12th Grade

Hard

NGSS
MS-ESS3-4, MS-LS2-4, MS-LS2-3

+5

Standards-aligned

Created by

Lisa Thompson

FREE Resource

15 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What did hunter-gatherers do to alter the environment?

Introduce new plants to new regions

Over-hunt large mammals

Burn prairie to maintain grassland

All options are correct

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Because Environmental Science encompasses so many different fields of study, it is said to be a(n) ________________ science.

Ecological

Interdisciplinary

Social

Human

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Ecology is the study of:

Plants and animals

Environmental Science

Interactions between organisms and their environment

Energy flow in ecosystems

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which major changes in human society and the environment occurred during the Industrial Revolution?

People lived in small tribes; many mammals went extinct

Domesticated plants were altered; forest was replaced with farmland

Fossil fuel consumption, technological efficiency, and environmental pollution increased

Common grazing areas were replaced with closed fields

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons" essay addressed the conflicts associated with which environmental challenge?

Preventing pollution

Preserving biodiversity

Curbing overpopulation

Protecting shared resources

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What represents Earth's "modern commons"?

Shared natural resources

Protected grasslands

Threatened species

Unpolluted habitats

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following is a renewable resource that is in danger of being used up faster than it can replace itself?

Soil

Groundwater

Tropical Rain Forests

All choices are correct

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

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