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Biology - Human Impact On TheEnvironment Questions And Correct
Answers Latest Version 2024
How do humans differ from all other kinds of organisms? ANS✔✔ Greater ability to
alter their environment
300 years ago, the human population began increasing rapidly due to
improvements in ANS✔✔ Technology and health care
Pollution ANS✔✔ Harmful change in chemical composition of soil, water or air.
Toxic ANS✔✔ Poisonous
Carcinogens ANS✔✔ Cancer-Causing
Overpopulation causes depletion of ________ resources. ANS✔✔ Finite (Limited
Amount)
Overpopulation causes habitat _____ and _____ of species. ANS✔✔ Destruction,
Extinction
Overpopulation causes disruption of _____ cycles. ANS✔✔ Nutrient (Carbon,
Nitrogen, Water)
Ecological Interdepenance ANS✔✔ Ecosystems depend on each other, if one is
disrupted, many are disrupted.
, Population Growth ANS✔✔ Fundamental Problem
Renewable Resources ANS✔✔ Can be replaced within a generation.
Nonrenewable Resources ANS✔✔ Can't be replaced within our generation.
Tragedy of the Commons ANS✔✔ Idea that any of Earth's resources that are FREE
and accessible to anyone will eventually be destroyed.
Sustainable Devolpment ANS✔✔ Way of using natural resources w/o depleting
them; providing for human needs w/out causing environmental harm.
Land Resource - Fossil Fuel ANS✔✔ Comes from remains of organisms that lived
millions of years ago.
Important Energy Source
Causes Pollution
Land Resource - Top Soil ANS✔✔ Takes Hundreds of years to form one inch of Top
Soil
Important for agriculture
Less Topsoil = Less Food
Problem = Erosion
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