Forests and Deforestation
This is the most harmful method of timber harvesting
What is clear cutting?
This agricultural process turns soil upside down, pushing down crop residues to restore nutrients as well to kill weeds and insects
What is plowing and tilling?
This material, containing valuable minerals, is the target of mining operations
What is ore?
Organisms that damage plants that are valuable to us are called this
What are pests?
Name two ways to lower your carbon footprint
What is using renewable energy, taking public transportation, or eating less meat?
In addition to acquiring timber, forests are most often cut down in order to use the land for this instead
What is agriculture or farming?
This agricultural process opens up land for use for a short period of time, after which it will no longer be able to support the growth of crops
What is slash and burn?
This type of mining is the most expensive and dangerous
This method (can give the name OR the abbreviation) is viewed as the best way to control pests while using as little chemical pesticides as possible
What is IPM, or Integrated Pest Control?
Name a benefit to raising meat in a CAFO
What are higher profits, faster meat production, lower costs, or production of larger quantities of meat?
In this timber harvesting method, small patches of trees are removed while the forest around them is preserved
What is group selection?
When soil loses more than 10% of its productivity due to erosion, compaction, & other factors, this irreversible process can occur
What is desertification?
This type of mining involves the digging of a massive opening in the ground with roads built into it for dumptrucks, often used to extract copper from Earth
What is open pit mining?
This is the country that uses the most pesticide in the world every year
What is the United States?
This footprint is measured in a unit of area, and includes all of the consumption involved with the person, activity, or group it is being measured for
What is ecological footprint?
In this timber harvesting method, individual trees are removed while the forest around them is preserved
What is single tree selection?
This agricultural process leaves crop residues from the previous season on top of the soil, in order to protect it from erosion
What is no-till agriculture?
This type of mining involves the use of heavy explosives to access valuable buried materials, but can heavily pollute the surrounding environment
What is mountaintop removal mining?
This method of pest control brings in a natural predator to control the pest population
What is biocontrol or biological pest control?
This process is required to be completed on a mine site after it is done being used, you did it as part of the end of the cookie mining lab
What is reclamation?
Name three services provided by forest ecosystems
What are to increase biodiversity, provide habitats, prevent erosion, decrease flooding, store carbon, release oxygen, provide food, provide medicine, provide timber, or provide tourism?
Poor farming practices that result in the deterioration of the soil characteristics needed for plant growth is called this
What is soil degradation?
This type of mining first removes overburden material, before employing large mechanical systems to wash rocks and obtain valuable ores
What is strip mining?
Describe the pesticide treadmill
When some pests survive treatment because they are resistant, reproduce a generation of resistant pests, and then infest a field despite chemical treatment, requiring new pesticides which will start the cycle all over again and make superbugs
This human activity is the fastest way to increase your carbon footprint
What is air travel?