Lesson 4.18 - Review Humans and Earth

Petroleum, or oil, provides the gasoline and other fuels for cars, trucks, and airplanes.

Who benefits from the use of petroleum?

• everyone, either directly or indirectly

• only the people who drive or ride in cars, trucks, and airplanes

• only the people who purchase gasoline and other petroleum fuels

• only people who work in companies that mine or sell petroleum

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

How have wilderness lands changed over the past 200 years?

Select the words from the drop-down menus to correctly complete the sentences.

Over the past 200 years, the total area of wilderness has 1______. The reason is because of human activities such as 2______.

• 1: Farming and Ranching

  2: establishing conservation land

• 1: Decreased 2:Farming and ranching

• 1: Decreased

  2: take over

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

How has the burning of fossil fuels caused global climate change?

• by releasing huge amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas

• by releasing huge amounts of oxygen, a greenhouse gas

• by converting the energy of fossil fuels into heat

• by removing water vapor from the atmosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

What are the benefits of burning wood for home heating?

Select the words from the drop-down menus that correctly complete the paragraph.

Wood is an example of a(n) 1._______ Although a kilogram of wood has 2.________ energy compared to a kilogram of coal or oil, wood has the benefit of being a 3._______ energy resource that is widely available.

• 1: less

  2: renewable

  3: biofuel

• 1: biofuel

  2: renewable

  3: more

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  1: biofuel

  2: less

  3: renewable

  
  

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

What are some examples of the 3R's: reducing, reusing, and recycling?

Select the answer choice that puts the categories in the correct order.

• 1: reusing

  2: reducing

  3: recycling

• 1: recycling

  2: reducing

  3: reusing

• 1: reducing

  2: reusing

  3: recycling

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

Read this passage about a community establishing conservation land.

A community has identified the need to protect the wildlife of the region and protect supplies of fresh water. To meet these goals, the community has decided to purchase an unwanted farm and use it for conservation land. Visitors will be allowed on the conservation land, but houses and roads will be banned, as will many human activities.

How does banning houses, roads, and many human activities help the community meet its goals for the conservation land?

Select the three correct answers.

• Wildlife cannot live on land used for houses and roads

• Human activities may favor one plant or animal population over another.

• Human activities may pollute the land or water, often unintentionally.

• The plants on the conservation land can be used as food crops.

• The animals on the conservation land can be raised as livestock.

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CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

What damage can occur from poor forest management?

• 1: all trees

  2: erosion

  3: soil

  4: muddy streams

  5: some trees

• 1: some trees

  2: erosion

  3: soil

  4:frozen streams

  5: some trees

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Why is Earth's climate changing?

Select the answer that places the sentences in the correct order to make a logical explanation.

• 1: People Continue to burn fossil fuel, a process that releases carbon dioxide.

  2: Carbon dioxide is building up Earth's atmosphere.

  3: Higher levels of carbon dioxide act to trap more heat in the atmosphere.

  4: Global temperatures increase causing, patterns of precipitation to change as well.

• 1: Global temperatures increase causing, patterns of precipitation to change as well.

  2: Carbon dioxide is building up Earth's atmosphere.

  3: Higher levels of carbon dioxide act to trap more heat in the atmosphere.

  4: People Continue to burn fossil fuel, a process that releases carbon dioxide.

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

How does a forest affect the water cycle?

• Runoff flows faster across a forest than bare soil or rock.

• Photosynthesis by trees removes water vapor directly from the air.

• Transpiration from trees helps keep water within a region.

• Decomposing trees act to remove water from the soil.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4