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Standard 6.0 Environmental Science

Topic B. Environmental Issues

Indicator 1. Recognize and explain that human-caused changes have consequences for Maryland's environment as well as for other places and future times.

Objective b. Recognize and describe how environmental change in one part of the world can have consequences for other parts of the world.

Selected Response Item

Logging companies cut trees in a forest and send the trees to lumber mills far from the forest. The mills make boards that are used for construction. Some logging companies do not plant tree seedlings after cutting trees.

Not planting tree seedlings might affect people who need boards in the future because

  1. the price of boards will increase
  2. the price of boards will decrease
  3. there will be more boards available
  4. there will be more trees for logging
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Correct Answer:
A