Land Use
One who has a share or interest in a public property
The process of movement of people from rural areas to urban areas.
What is urbanization?
The agricultural method of growing one crop repeatedly in the same fields year after year.
What is monocropping?
Which kind of irrigation is the most water efficeint?
What is drip irrigation?
A method of harvesting timber in which all trees are removed at the same time.
What is clearcutting?
A cost or benefit of a good that are not included in the purchase price of a good or service
What is an externality?
The process by which cities grow and expand into farmland, creating suburbs.
What is urban sprawl?
Name two practices that enabled the Green Revolution.
What are mechanization, modern irrigation, synthetic fertilizers, and improved crop varities
Name a feature of IPM
Intercropping
Some crop damage is acceptable
Use of natural pests
The maximum amount of a renewable resource that can be harvested without compromising the future availability of that resource
What is maximum sustainable yield?
Name two types of public lands with different management strategies
•Rangelands
•National Forests
•National Parks
•National Wildlife Refuges
•Wilderness Areas
A set of principles for community planning that focuses on strategies to encourage the development of sustainable healthy communities
What is smart growth?
Name a negative aspect of the green revolution.
high energy use for industrial farming,
pests develop resistance,
soil fertility decreases
What does CAFO stand for?
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
What is the relationship of MSY to K?
MSY usually = about half of carrying capacity
Define "islands of preservation"
When the management boundaries of a public land do not match the conservation needs of the species
The degradation of the city in conjunction with migration to the suburbs
What is urban blight?
•Use a lot of fossil fuel energy
•Increased nutrient runoff (producing eutrophication in waterways)
•Don’t add organic matter to soil
Name two drawbacks of tree plantations
-low biodiversity
-no age stratification, no old growth
Harvesting trees by removing single trees among many in a forest
What is selective cutting?
What does NEPA stand for?
National Environmental Policy Act
Name two contributors to Urban Sprawl
-affordability of personal cars
-increased access via highways
-increased tax revenues on gas
Decreased efficacy and resistance
What planting practice could a farmer employ if he wants to reduce sediment and fertilizer runoff to nearby aquatic resources?
What is crop rotation?
Removing trees from forests in ways that do not significantly affect the viability of other trees.
What is sustainable forestry?