Human Impact on the Environment Reading and Worksheet

In this human impact on the environment reading, students will learn about many different ways that humans have impacted ecosystems, such as:
  • Overharvesting resources
  • Spreading invasive species
  • Carbon emissions/climate change
  • Pollution
  • Habitat destruction
In this activity, students will:
  • 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.
Teacher Notes:
  • An answer key is included.
  • Please note: this human impact on the environment reading is not editable.
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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.

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NGSS Standards: MS-ESS3-3, MS-ESS3-4, MS-ESS3-5