Forestry
_______ _______ occurs when an ecosystem is damaged on partly destroyed and remnants of the former
What is secondary succession?
The formation of carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water that takes place in the chlorophyll-containing tissues of plants exposed to light; oxygen is produced as a by-product.
What is photosynthesis?
What does NOAA stand for?
What is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration?
A _____ is the role that an organism fulfills in an environment.
What is a niche?
What is the scientific name of an American robin?
Turdus migratorius
Vertical growth in a tree.
What is terminal growth?
What is nitrogen fixation?
A public database that provides information about soil.
What is the Web Soil Survey (WSS)?
Water that is held too tightly for plant roots to absorb is called ________ ________.
What is hygroscopic water?
What is the scientific name of the Tarantula hawk wasp?
Pepsis marginata
Wood used for fiber in manufacturing paper products.
What is pulpwood?
Water cycle, also known as the ______ ______, is the cycling movement of water in the form of vapor from oceans to clouds to the Earth as precipitation and back to the oceans through rivers and streams.
What is the hydrologic cycle?
The ______ ____ ___ ______ states that every time energy is converted from one form to another, some energy is lost in the form of heat.
What is the second law of energy?
The isolation of pest-infested material.
What is quarantine?
What is the scientific name of the Soaptree yucca?
Yucca elata
Forest land capable of producing more than 20 cubic feet of industrial wood per year.
What is a timberland?
The recurring circular flow of elements from living organisms to nonliving materials and back again.
What is the elemental cycle?
In 1948, this act was known to be the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Furthermore, it was the first major U.S. law to address water pollution. Though, as it was amended in 1972, it is now commonly referred to as the _____________________.
What is the Clean Water Act (CWA)?
The loss of an organism from a specific niche or habitat is an example of ______ ______ ______.
What is the competitive exclusion principle?
What is the scientific name of the Rio Grande Cutthroat trout?
Oncorhynchus clarki virginalis
The study of forests and forests relationships.
What is silvics?
The movement of nutrients and other elements between biotic and abiotic factors.
What is the biogeochemical cycle?
This motto is a principle of a water allocation doctrine.
What is the “use it or lose it” motto?
Trespassing or advancing beyond normal, natural, or proper limits.
What is encroachment?
What is the scientific name of the Western harvest mouse?
Reithrodontomys megalotis