Sustainability
Agricultural & Forestry Practices
Meat & Fish Production
Mining & Fishing & Pesticides (Oh My)
Miscellaneous
200
Eating lower on the food chain has positive environmental impacts. Name one.
same amount of land can be used for growing people food instead of animal food ...
less methane released from CAFOs etc
200
Clearcutting has this impact on soil.
What is ...increased erosion and/or loss of nutrients / organic matter?
200
In this method of meat production, animals are kept in confined spaces.
What are Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)?
200
These are some drawbacks of pesticide use.
What are ....
Killing of non-target species
Bioaccumulation
Resistance - Pesticide treadmill
Pollution of groundwater
Toxicity to humans
200
Permeable pavements are considered a good solution for this environmental issue.
What is urban runoff?
400
This is the most sustainable irrigation method; this is the least.
What are drip and furrow irrigation?
400
Overuse of groundwater can lead to depletion of these
What are aquifers
400
These are some benefits of CAFO use.
What are ...
Minimize land costs
Improve feeding efficiency
Increase food supply
400
This is the best explanation for why maximum sustainable yield has been exceeded for ocean fisheries.
Populations of fish-eating birds such as the albatross have increased.
Too many fish of reproductive age are harvested.
Too many marine fish farms have been created.
Everything trapped by large bottom trawl nets is used for food.
For every calorie of fish caught, a ship uses only about 0.5 calorie of fuel energy.
What is ... too many fish of reproductive age are being harvested?
400
"Roads?...." (Finish the rest of this quote from Back to the Future)
What is ...
600
These three Rs are used to describe main ways in which a society can live more sustainably.
What are Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle?
600
Midwestern farmers rely on this large aquifer for irrigation; it is being depleted faster than it is being recharged.
What is the Ogallala aquifer?
600
These are some drawbacks of CAFO use.
What are ...
Antibiotic resistance
Diseases like Mad Cow
Waste Disposal
Ethics
Nutrition
600
This is the type of mining that produces what is pictured below:
What is mountaintop removal / strip mining?
600
This is the current population of the United States.
What is 333 million?
800
This correlation can be made via this graph.
What is ... with increased cost of water comes decreased use?
800
This is a negative effect of tilling soil.
What is ...
Erosion
Loss of organic matter and topsoil nutrients
Increase in PM in air and sediments in water
800
This are two issues associated with farm-raised fish.
What are ...
disease
nitrification of the water
escapees
800
This is the connection between pesticide use and eutrophication, if any.
What is ...there is none! Pesticides don't lead to eutrophication.
800
This is a way in which urban runoff could be decreased in this scenario:
What is use of permeable pavement?
1000
This is an ecologically sustainable forestry technique.
What is selective cutting?
1000
The development of dangerous strains of disease organisms represents a significant consequence of which agricultural practice.
What is use of antibiotics?
1000
Of the following, this is why aquaculture has grown considerably:
Increased nutrient availability in the ocean from fish waste has led to an increase in the density of fish that can be supported in aquaculture facilities.
The use of antibiotics in aquaculture has led to the evolution of resistant bacteria that support the immune system of various fish species.
Wild fish have increased in size and fitness from the competition with nonnative fish that have escaped from aquaculture facilities.
Aquaculture fisheries provide a larger and more consistent quantity of fish year-round than do wild fisheries.
What is ... Aquaculture fisheries provide a larger and more consistent quantity of fish year-round than do wild fisheries.
1000
This element, found in pyrite, contributes to acid mine drainage.
What is sulfur?
1000
Identify the object below and relate its effect on storm water flow.
What is a rain barrel & REDUCES storm water runoff?