Earth Science Review

Recycling, reducing, and reusing resources are ways we can conserve natural resources.

This Earth System is made up of all of the water in all its phases on Earth.

Which resource is renewable?

Recycling helps to protect Earth’s existing resources. In what way are Earth’s resources protected when we recycle?

Vegetation is negatively impacted by deforestation, new home construction, and acid rain

Agricultural crops, Wind energy, and Water are what types of resources?

Two ways people are changing the land near our school are constructing new buildings and roads.

Oil, Natural gas, and Coal are what type of resources?

A renewable resource is one that forms so slowly over time that it cannot be replaced.

The increase in algae growing in streams, lakes, and rivers is caused by:

Which human activities are a result of agricultural practices?

Deforestation usually decreases erosion.

This Earth System includes all of the gases in the air.

Which of these activities are a result of mining?

This Earth System contains all of Earth’s solid and molten, or liquid, rocks.

Conserving and recycling resources, using renewable resources, as well as creating land preserves are harmful to Earth.

  Smog is caused by chemicals released when these are burned and react with sunlight.

This Earth System contains all of the living things on Earth. 

A part of a rocket from a spacecraft is caught in Earth’s orbit. This rocket piece is known as:

The removal of the trees in an area is called:

Pollutants may eventually reach the ocean when this reaches rivers.

A nonrenewable resource is one that is continually being replaced and will not run out. 

Which of these gases makes up most of the Earth’s atmosphere?