Human Impact on the Environment Reading and Worksheet

• Overharvesting resources
• Spreading invasive species
• Carbon emissions/climate change
• Pollution
• Habitat destruction

• READ an article about the many ways humans impact the environment.
• ANSWER text-dependent questions. No prior knowledge is needed – all information is in the text.
• Complete a GRAPHIC ORGANIZER to summarize what they’ve learned in the text.

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Related Standards:

• NGSS MS-ESS3-3: Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
• NGSS MS-ESS3-4: Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.
• NGSS MS-ESS3-5: Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.

• An answer key is included.
• Please note: this human impact on the environment reading is not editable.
• Go paperless! This activity includes a version in Google Slides.
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