Earth Science Review

What causes smog?

Which of the following resources are all renewable?

Deforestation usually decreases erosion.

What is the removal of all the trees in an area called?

What are the 4 earth systems we learned about?

Includes all of the gases in the air. You can see from space air is visible as a thin layer with a slight, blue glow.

A satellite that is no longer working continues to orbit Earth. What is the satellite known as?

Which of the following is a renewable resource?

How can you conserve natutral resources?

Identify two practices people are using to protect Earth.

What is a nonrenewable resource?

True or False: Agriculture includes producing crops and raising animals/lifestock.

Which sphere contains all of the living things on Earth? Humans are part of this sphere, too.

Pollutants that enter rivers in runoff may eventually reach the ocean.

True or false: Coal, natural gas, and wind energy are all nonrenewable resources.

What human activity causes the number of algae growing in streams, rivers, and lakes to increase?

What effects can mining have on the land?

True or False: Nitrogen makes up most of the Earth's Atmosphere.

How does human activity impact vegetation?

Which sphere contains all of Earth’s solid and molten, or liquid, rocks? It also includes sediments and soil.

Which sphere includes all liquid water on Earth, such as the water in rivers, lakes, ocean, and underground?

How does recycling help protect resources?