Urbanization
This term describes the shift of populations from the countryside to a city.
What is urbanization?
Soil, freshwater, wildlife, and timber are all examples of this type of resource.
What is a renewable resource?
Organic matter in the soil includes this
What is living or once-living organisms?
This type of rock is formed what layers of weathered materials are pressed together over time
What is a sedimentary rock?
This refers to the vegetation and manufactured structures that cover land.
What is land cover?
What is maximum sustainable yield?
This sustainable farming method minimizes soil erosion, returns nutrients to the soil and breaks cycles of disease.
What is crop rotation?
This method of mineral formation takes place when water evaporates, and the remaining solids crystallize
What is precipitation?
This area of land is largely made up of spaced-out, single family housing units.
What is a suburban area?
This logging method would most likely result in the most uneven age regrowth.
What is a selection system?
Soil degradation is especially severe in arid environments. When there is a loss of more that 10 percent of productivity due to erosion, soil compaction, forest removal, overgrazing, drought, and other factors it is called this
What is desertification?
This type of mining would most likely be used when a mineral resource is spread evenly and deeply throughout a rock formation, but the ground is not safe for tunneling
What is open pit mining?
Sprawl is the spread of urban or suburban development outward from an urban center. Sprawl can impact these five things.
What is transportation, pollution, public health, land use, and economics?
This act encourages salvage logging and prescribed burning on national forest land.
What is the healthy forests restoration act?
This type of soil pollution improves crops in the short term, however, has long term effects on humans and wildlife.
What is pesticide use?
These are all mined for their valuable properties
What are metallic minerals, nonmetallic minerals, fuel and water?
A strip of vegetated open space that connects parks or neighborhoods is called this.
What is a greenway?
National Forests are required to be managed for timber harvest, wildlife habitat, recreation and other uses. This is called
What is the policy of multiple use or the National Forest Management Act?
A secure food supply depends on these factors
What is maintaining health soil, safe distribution of food, and biodiversity of food sources?
Increased erosion, sediment and debris, water and air pollution, social impacts (property damage and conflicts) all can be categorized as
What are negative impacts of mining?