This Grade 4 worksheet examines environmental impacts of resource use, including air pollution, water pollution, deforestation, and habitat loss. Students fill blanks about ecosystems, oil spills, and marine life, then match human actions to the problems they cause. The activity helps Grade 4 students see how everyday choices affect ecosystems under NGSS 4-ESS3. This Grade 4 worksheet supports classroom or homework practice today.
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Natural Resources and Human Impact
Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1. Trash and chemicals dumped into rivers cause water pollution that harms fish.
2. When trees are cut down too quickly, the result is deforestation of forests.
3. An ecosystem includes all the living and nonliving things in one area.
4. Mining for coal can disturb the habitat where animals build their homes.
5. Smoke from burning fuels rises into the atmosphere and pollutes our air.
6. Oil spills from tanker ships can coat ocean animals like seabirds.
7. Litter on beaches harms turtles, dolphins, and other marine life.
8. Too much plastic in oceans is a serious form of pollution.
9. When a forest is cleared, the animals that lived there must find new homes.
Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1. Match each item to its correct answer.
Cutting many trees
→ Habitat loss for forest animals
Marine pollution and litter
Oil spill in the ocean
→ Harm to seabirds and fish
Air pollution
Smokestacks at a factory
→ Air pollution
Habitat loss for forest animals
Plastic trash on a beach
→ Marine pollution and litter
Harm to seabirds and fish
Natural Resources and Human Impact
★ Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1) Trash and chemicals dumped into rivers cause water pollution that harms fish.
2) When trees are cut down too quickly, the result is deforestation of forests.
3) An ecosystem includes all the living and nonliving things in one area.
4) Mining for coal can disturb the habitat where animals build their homes.
5) Smoke from burning fuels rises into the atmosphere and pollutes our air.
6) Oil spills from tanker ships can coat ocean animals like seabirds.
7) Litter on beaches harms turtles, dolphins, and other marine life.
8) Too much plastic in oceans is a serious form of pollution.
9) When a forest is cleared, the animals that lived there must find new homes.
★ Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1) Match each item to its correct answer.
Cutting many trees
→ Habitat loss for forest animals
Marine pollution and litter
Oil spill in the ocean
→ Harm to seabirds and fish
Air pollution
Smokestacks at a factory
→ Air pollution
Habitat loss for forest animals
Plastic trash on a beach
→ Marine pollution and litter
Harm to seabirds and fish
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