Urbanization
Forestry
Soil and Agriculture
Minerals/Mining
100

This term describes the shift of populations from the countryside to a city.

What is urbanization?

100

Soil, freshwater, wildlife, and timber are all examples of this type of resource.

What is a renewable resource?

100

Organic matter in the soil includes this

What is living or once-living organisms?

100

This type of rock is formed what layers of weathered materials are pressed together over time

What is a sedimentary rock?

200

This refers to the vegetation and manufactured structures that cover land.

What is land cover?

200
A resource management method that aims to harvest the maximum amount of a resource without reducing the amount of future harvests.

What is maximum sustainable yield?

200

This sustainable farming method minimizes soil erosion, returns nutrients to the soil and breaks cycles of disease.

What is crop rotation?

200

This method of mineral formation takes place when water evaporates, and the remaining solids crystallize

What is precipitation?

300

This area of land is largely made up of spaced-out, single family housing units. 

What is a suburban area?

300

This logging method would most likely result in the most uneven age regrowth.

What is a selection system?

300

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?

300

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?

400

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?

400

This act encourages salvage logging and prescribed burning on national forest land.

What is the healthy forests restoration act?

400

This type of soil pollution improves crops in the short term, however, has long term effects on humans and wildlife.

What is pesticide use?

400

These are all mined for their valuable properties

What are metallic minerals, nonmetallic minerals, fuel and water?

500

A strip of vegetated open space that connects parks or neighborhoods is called this.

What is a greenway?

500

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?

500

A secure food supply depends on these factors

What is maintaining health soil, safe distribution of food, and biodiversity of food sources?

500

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?

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