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| something from Earth that living things use to meet their needs. |
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| How is land usage impacted as population increases? |
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| As population grows so does our need for food. |
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| cutting down of large areas of forests for human activities |
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| What is the impact of agriculture on the environment? |
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| Impacts include pollution from pesticides, reduced soil quality, and reduced space for other activities. |
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| the variety of life in a particular place |
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| development of land for houses and other buildings near a city |
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| What are landfills and where does our garbage go? |
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| Landfills are areas where trash is buried. 34% of trash is recycled, 11% is burned and the remaining 55% is placed in landfills. |
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| is the contamination of the environment with substances that are harmful to life. |
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| is the careful use of Earths materials to reduce damage to the environment. |
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| What does it mean to reduce, reuse, and recycle? |
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| helps reduce the amount of trash that ends up in landfills. |
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| involves planting trees to replace ones that have been removed. |
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| the process of restoring land disturbed by mining. |
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| What are national parks and what purpose do they serve? |
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| They are habitats for wildlife, the purpose is to preserve land. |
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| How is water used by humans? |
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| we use water to wash cars, do laundry, for agriculture, recreation and transportation. |
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| How is the amount of water used impacted by the human population? |
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| as human population increases so does the impact on water. |
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| What percentage of Earth’s water is freshwater? |
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| human activities such as mining and construction. Oil spills pollute water. |
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| What are sinkholes and how do they form? |
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| form where the ground collapses because of lack of support. |
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| ________________makes up the majority of Earth’s accessible freshwater. |
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| ___________are important but they may also impact the surrounding environment. |
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| ________and _______are often dammed to create reservoirs. |
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| What impact can agricultural runoff have on the surrounding environment? |
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| Agricultural runoff can contain fertilizers which can upset the balance of nutrients in lakes, oceans, and other bodies of water. |
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| What impact can industrial waste have on the surrounding environment? |
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| Industrial waste can contain toxic chemicals that can harm aquatic organisms. |
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| What impact can urban runoff have on the surrounding environment? |
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| Urban runoff can contain pesticides and fertilizers from lawns, oil, and gasoline from vehicles. which can reduce the quality of surface water and ground water. |
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| What impact can runoff from mines have on the surrounding environment? |
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| runoff from mines can be acidic and can contain metals. It can contaminate surface water and groundwater, drinking supplies and affect the grow of aquatic organisms. |
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| What impact can oil spills have on the surrounding environment? |
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| oil spills expose aquatic organism's to toxic chemicals. It can also reduce the amount of oxygen in the water. |
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| What impact can runoff from construction sites have on the surrounding environment? |
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| runoff from construction sites might contain excess sediment which makes water in streams and rivers cloudy. It reduces the amount of sunlight available for photosynthetic organisms. |
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| Where does ocean pollution come from? |
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| volcanic eruption, Emissions from power plants and cars and dumped trash |
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What can cause excess sediments to enter water, and how can excess sediments impact
water quality? |
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| sediments erodes from land and washes into oceans this is increased when humans cut down trees near rivers and oceans causing excess sediments that block light, organisms that use light for photosynthesis die. |
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| How can excess nutrients impact water quality? |
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| can cause huge increase in algal populations. which can kill marine organisms. |
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| How does population impact the use of natural resources? |
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| a growing population needs land to build more houses and roads and to grow food. |
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| How does agriculture impact biodiversity? |
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| when land is grown to raise one type of crop biodiversity decreases. When one organism changes or disappears then multiple organism changes or disappears. |
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| What is the impact of urbanization on the area? |
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| flooding can occur. Destroys habitats, reduces farmland and impacts ground water supplies. |
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| What is the impact of deforestation? |
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| Deforestation destroys habitats which can lead to species extinction. When there are fewer trees more carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphere. |
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| Impact of pesticide usage? |
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| used for farming these fertilizers can seep into groundwater and pollute supplies of drinking water. |
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| when plants are removed to clear land soil is exposed causing soil erosion. which can lead to desert like conditions. which means you cannot grow food on this type of soil |
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