Section 2: People and Their enviroment

Question 1

Clear-Cutting

Answer 1

Taking out whole forests when harvesting timber.

Question 2

Acid Rain

Answer 2

Precipitation that carries abnormally high amounts of acidic material, affects plants and fish.

Question 3

Smog

Answer 3

As the sun’s rays interact with automobile exhaust gases and industrial emissions, a visible haze forms, damaging or killing plants and irritating people’s eyes, throats, and lungs.

Question 4

Groundwater

Answer 4

freshwater that lies beneath the Earth’s surface.

Question 5

Eutrophication

Answer 5

The process by which a lake or other body of water becomes rich in dissolved nutrients, encouraging overgrowth of small plants, especially algae.