About this human impact on the environment practice

Human impact on the environment is taught in KS2 Year 6 (ages 10-11) as part of the England national curriculum. This free practice set covers how human activities affect ecosystems and what we can do to protect them through 30 interactive questions, working up from easy warm-ups to harder problems.

What you'll practise

Each session gives you 30 questions in mixed difficulty: a few simple ones to start, some two-step questions next, then word problems at the end. If you get stuck, tap for a hint. After every answer you get a short explanation, right or wrong, so you can see why.

Question types in this set: multiple choice, fill the blank, true or false, word matching, drag-to-order, sentence builder.

Example question

What is deforestation?

Curriculum coverage

This is on the KS2 Geography programme of study for Year 6. The questions follow the same order schools use, starting with concrete examples and moving on to more abstract reasoning, so practice here lines up with what your child is doing in lessons. British English throughout, with British units, currency and spelling.

Frequently asked questions

What is human impact on the environment in KS2 geography?

How human activities affect ecosystems and what we can do to protect them. It is on the KS2 geography curriculum for Year 6 and gets revisited in later years too.

What year group is human impact on the environment taught in?

Human impact on the environment is first introduced in Year 6. Children usually meet it again in later years as the work gets harder.

Is the human impact on the environment practice really free?

Yes. All 30 questions are free, with no signup, no payment and no time limit. Your progress is saved in your browser.

How does the practice work?

Each session gives you 10 questions of mixed difficulty. Correct answers add 8 to 12 points to your SmartScore; wrong answers take some off. Get to 80 to mark the concept as complete. Hints are there if you need them, and every answer comes with a short explanation.

Related geography concepts

• 🚢Economic activity and trade links
• 🕐Time zones
• 🪨Tectonic plates
• 🌋Earthquakes and volcanoes

More practice by year

• Year 6 practice
• All Geography concepts

Practice content matched to the England national curriculum for KS2 (Year 6). Questions use British English throughout.