Population impacts on natural resources is the focus of this Grade 7 Science worksheet for Earth and Human Activity. Students examine how population growth and per-capita consumption influence resource demand, then connect resource use to freshwater availability, biodiversity, ecosystems, waste, and carbon emissions.

What Students Explore

The reading passage establishes the relationship between population size, per-capita consumption, and demand for water, food, energy, land, and materials. Students also consider how urbanization, agriculture, irrigation, energy systems, fossil fuel use, and habitat expansion can create different environmental pressures.

Students apply these ideas through multiple-choice questions, true-or-false statements, short-answer responses, a labeled diagram, a categorization task, and a short note. The written questions ask students to explain how population growth and consumption work together, describe effects of urbanization on land, water, and waste, and connect energy use with carbon emissions.

Included in the Resource

• ✅ Student worksheet focused on population growth and natural resource use
• ✅ Reading passage introducing population, consumption, resource demand, and environmental pressures
• ✅ Multiple-choice questions covering per-capita consumption, water demand, urbanization, freshwater supplies, biodiversity, fossil fuels, climate, and sustainable resource management
• ✅ True-or-false practice reinforcing key relationships
• ✅ Short-answer questions for scientific explanation
• ✅ Labeled diagram, categorization activity, and short-note task
• ✅ Student Notes lines for recording ideas
• ✅ Separate PDF answer key with Teacher Guide, including Learning Objectives, Teaching Tips, Discussion Questions, and Common Mistakes

Classroom Use

Use this Earth and Human Activity resource for science instruction, guided practice, independent work, review, or assessment of students' ability to connect human population patterns with environmental resource pressures. The varied response formats provide opportunities to check factual understanding as well as written scientific reasoning.

The resource also supports discussion of sustainable resource management, including reducing waste, improving efficiency, protecting habitats, and considering how communities can use resources for the future. The included Teacher Guide gives instructors practical support for lesson objectives, teaching tips, discussion prompts, and common student mistakes.

NGSS-Focused Earth and Human Activity Practice

Designed around the stated NGSS framework and the lesson topic Earth and Human Activity, this worksheet gives Grade 7 learners focused practice with population growth, per-capita resource consumption, ecosystem impacts, freshwater availability, biodiversity, and carbon emissions.