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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Benchmark 4C The Physical Setting: Processes
that Shape the Earth
Grades 6-8, page 73
Human activities, such as reducing the amount of forest cover, increasing
the amount and variety of chemicals released into the atmosphere, and intensive
farming, have changed the earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. Some of
these changes have decreased the capacity of the environment to support
some life forms.
Benchmark 8C The Designed World: Energy
Sources and Use
Grades 9-12, page 195
Industrialization brings an increased demand for and use of energy.
Such usage contributes to the high standard of living in the industrially
developing nations but also leads to more rapid depletion of the earth's
energy resources and to environmental risks associated with the use of
fossil and nuclear fuels.