Assessment
6. A Changing Landscape
Understand Key Concepts
10. The concept of using natural resources at a rate
that does not deplete them is called
1. Which of the following human activities has
B
o. conservation.
D
NOT had an important role in transforming the
b sustainable development.
c. reforestation.
biosphere to date?
d. successful use.
d, agriculture
b. industry
c. development
11. Examine the food web below. Which of the
d aquaculture
following organisms would accumulate the
2. A resource that cannot easily be replenished by
highest levels of a pesticide?
natural processes is called
g. hawk
c. frog
C
b. rabbit
d. grasses
a. common.
c.
Monrenewable.
b. renewable.
d. conserved.
3. Describe how Hawaiian settlers negatively
affected the islands after the 1700s.
Hawk
Snake
4. Name four services that ecosystems provide for
Fox
Bird
the biosphere.
i
Owl
3, The Hawaijan settles
Frog
brought disease
4, Provides water) air,
Rabbit
Mouse
Grasshopper
ossil fuels, and good soil
Grasses
12. What is the difference between sustainable for-
estry and deforestation?
13. Identify some of the common sources of water
Using Resources Wisely
pollution.
Understand Key Concepts
forestry provides for
8. The conversion of a once soil-rich area to an area
of little to no vegetation is called
humans and preserving
C
a. fragmentation.
c. desertification.
b. deforestation.
d. acid rain.
the forest while
9. The loss of fertile soils from an area through the
deforesation is the
action of water or wind is called
loss of forest,
a, acid rain.
c. desertification.
B
b. erosion.
d. monoculture.
Sewase, marine dumping, and
Oil spill
