Soil and Agriculture
What was the intensification of industrialization of agriculture that took place in the US in the 1950s?
Green Revolution
Which of the pictures depicts an old growth forest?
1
What describes the rapid spread of a city adjoining suburbs and rural areas?
Urban sprawl
What does this picture represent?
Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking)
This fish was banned from being harvested because its population had crashed from overfishing and has not recovered (Mr.Brocki also thinks it’s tasty)
Orange Roughy
Which farming technique involves mixing different crops in a single field to prevent erosion?
Intercropping
What type of fire is typically beneficial for forests, surface or canopy fires?
Surface fires
A process where a once-functioning city or suburb falls into disrepair
Urban decay
Name one technique of mining that does not include fracking
Subsurface mining, Strip/Open-Pit Mining, Mountaintop Removal
What type of farming aims to reduce crop damage through a control program that uses cultivation, biological, and chemical tools?
Integrated Pest Management
What is one type of ecosystem service that forests provide?
●Chemical/nutrient cycling
●Soil dynamics – formation and retention
●Regulation of the water cycle
●Influence local and regional climate
●Fix and store carbon
●Provide habitat thereby increasing biodiversity
●“Purification” of air and water
What type of land planning involves walkable neighborhoods, compact building design, and growth boundaries?
Smart growth
What law allowed federal regulation of surface and subsurface coal
mining (active & abandoned) and requires companies to be permitted and bonded for reclamation?
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA 1977)
Which soil horizon is known as the leaching zone due to a loss in minerals?
E Horizon
Name one environmental impact and one economic impact of overgrazing
Environmental Impacts:
●Soil degradation & erosion
●Alteration of species profiles/Community structure
●Transition to scrub/shrubland
●Alteration of water cycle
●Desertification
Economic Impact:
●Livestock require larger areas to graze due to degradation
●Livestock have lower quality forage affecting their meat or milk production
● Livestock health is compromised
●Increased costs associated with fertilization and soil amendments
An area in which the air temperature is generally higher than the temperature of surrounding rural areas
Heat island
What is it called when harmful chemicals are removed from a mining site to render the area safe? (Hint: part of a mining sites three R’s for land recovery)
Remediation
What type of soil is 10% sand, 70% silt, and 20% clay?
Silt loam
What department does this picture represent?
Department of the Interior
A type of housing development where houses and apartments are built on part of the tract and the rest of the area is left as open space
Cluster development
What is the stony waste matter separated during smelting called?
Slag