NSES Content Standard F
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Natural hazards
Grades 5-8, page 168
Human activities also can induce hazards through resource acquisition,
urban growth, land-use decisions, and waste disposal. Such activities can
accelerate many natural changes.
NSES Content Standard F
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Natural resources
Grades 9-12, page 198
Humans use many natural systems as resources. Natural systems have
the capacity to reuse waste, but that capacity is limited. Natural systems
can change to an extent that exceeds the limits of organisms to adapt naturally
or humans to adapt technologically.
NSES Content Standard F
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Environmental quality
Grades 9-12, page 198
Natural ecosystems provide an array of basic processes that affect
humans. Those processes include maintenance of the quality of the atmosphere,
generation of soils, control of the hydrologic cycle, disposal of wastes,
and recycling of nutrients. Humans are changing many of these basic processes,
and the changes may be detrimental to humans.
NSES Content Standard F
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Environmental quality
Grades 9-12, page 198
Many factors influence environmental quality. Factors that students
might investigate include population growth, resource use, population distribution,
overconsumption, the capacity of technology to solve problems, poverty,
the role of economic, political, and religious views, and different ways
humans view the earth.
NSES Content Standard F
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Natural and human-induced
hazards
Grades 9-12, page 199
Human activities can enhance potential for hazards. Acquisition of
resources, urban growth, and waste disposal can accelerate rates of natural
change.
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