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Measure
Your Footprint
Take the Ecological Footprint Quiz!
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If
everyone lived like the average U.S. citizen, it would take more
than five planets to support the world's population.
Take
the Ecological Footprint quiz and measure your impact on the
planet.
How
does your footprint compare to that of the typical child who
lives near the monarch sanctuaries in Mexico? Gather information
from these stories and estimate the size of a family’s
footprint in Michoacan, Mexico:
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(PhotoCredit:
Rainbow TLC)
National
Science Education Standards
- Humans
depend on their natural and constructed environments. Humans change
environments in ways that can be either beneficial or detrimental
for themselves and other organisms.
- Resources
are things we get from living and nonliving environment to meet the
needs and wants of a population.
- Some
resources are basic materials, such as air, water, and soil; some
are produced from basic resources, such as food, fuel, and building
materials; and some resources are nonmaterial, such as quiet places,
beauty, security, and safety.
- Causes
of environmental degradation and resource depletion vary from
region to region and country to country.
National
Geography Standards
- How human
actions modify the physical environment.
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