Vocabulary
Urbanization
Water Use and Fish
Forests
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This is the process of taking some but leaving enough for future generations
What is sustainability?
100
When was the rise of urbanization?
What is industrial revolution?
What is 1800s- 1900s
100
This is the organized growing of marine organisms for consumption.
What is aquaculture?
100
Explain why soil is important to plants
What is provides structure and nutrients to crop in agriculture?
100
This is the meat source with the highest demand on water per kg protein.
What is beef?
100
A sustainable society would emphasize
A) maintaining the current rates of energy flow and resource use
B) converting the world’s high-quality energy resources to low-quality heat
C) recycling both matter and high-quality energy
D) using energy efficiently and reusing and recycling matter
E) quickly expanding nuclear power, because it is a renewable resource
D) using energy efficiently and reusing and recycling matter
200
This was a movement from small scale farming to mechanized farming.
What is the Green Revolution?
200
This is the uncontrolled spread of a city.
What is urban sprawl?
200
Name one drawback from aquacultures
Controlling the waste from the fishing. It is really easy to transfer a disease from fish to fish. If farm raised fish escape into the wild, they can change the genetics of the wild fish. They can outcompete native fish.
200
Fires deliberately set under controlled conditions to decrease dead mass on the forest floor.
What is a prescribed burn?
200
Explain how purse seine fishing works
What is A school of fish is located then surrounded by a net that is closed like a drawstring purse?
200
An individual has decided to convert a grassy area on property to a large garden in order to grow food, primarily vegetables. The garden measures meters in length by meters in width.
Describe one environmental advantage of producing food locally.
· Reduced atmospheric CO2 emissions from fewer trucks transporting food
· Reduced fossil fuel consumption from fewer trucks transporting food
· Increased genetic diversity of crops/increased biodiversity
· Ability to improve soil quality and nutrients
· Increased food security
300
This is the phenomena that results from overuse of shared land.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
300
Name two negative impacts of urbanization
Noise pollution
Air pollution
Littering
Water pollution
Saltwater intrusion
Increased CO2 emissions
300
Most wild fish populations belong to the public and not to individuals or individual countries. Explain how this public ownership can lead to an environmental problem.
When fishers catch a fish, it becomes their property this encourages them to take more than their “fair” share of this “free” resource and a Tragedy of the Commons results.
· When individuals use shared resources, they often use with regard to their own self-interest rather than for the common good, which can deplete the fish resources.
· Individual fishers get the economic benefits but the environmental costs (overfishing, etc.) are shared through the community
300
2 direct effects of clearcutting.
What are: soil erosion, increased soil temperature, increased stream temperatures, flooding, landslides?
300
Describe 3 sustainable agricultural practices that can prevent erosion.
Contour plowing, Terracing, Crop Rotation, Rotational Grazing, No Tilling, Windbreaks, Strip Cropping
300
Which pest control method is most effective - cite data from the graph to support your answer
IPM goes from 12 bugs caught each trap to 1 bug caught
400
1) This is describes a surface that does not allow water to seep into the ground.
2) This describes a surface that does allow water to seep into the ground.
What is an impermeable surface?
What is a permeable surface?
400
How do cities impact water runoff?
They have more impermeable surfaces (like concrete and asphalt) which leads to runoff.
400
Name 4 benefits of aquaculture. (100 points each)
It is efficient. Aquacultures create a healthy habitat that is raising healthy fish populations. Helps restock depleted or threatened populations of fish that may be considered endangered. Generates income. High quality protein, small area used.
400
Explain how trees are an example of the tragedy of the commons. Include air pollution in your answer.
Trees take a very long time to reach maturity (grow into adults). If logging is not managed deforestation occurs and then we see loss of habitats, increase in air pollution bc trees are carbon sinks, and soil erosion.
400
When cattle are allowed to feed in an area for to long it is called this__________ which can cause ____________ making the land unusable.
What is overgrazing and dessertification?
400
Some agricultural practices that emerged from the Green Revolution could have contributed to the air pollutants shown in the maps, while others did not negatively impact air pollution.
(f) Identify and describe one method that emerged during the Green Revolution that would not contribute to air pollution but has affected the diversity of the species planted as crops.
· High-yield/GMO varieties/cultivars/selective breeding of crops have decreased crop diversity/made plants more susceptible to disease.
· Monoculture farming has led to decreased biodiversity of crops.
Increased irrigation in dry areas (or in local/regional areas) could increase crop diversity in that area
500
This is when the ground has acculumated an excess of water soluble minerals.
What is salinization?
500
DESCRIBE one way to make cities more sustainable
Plant trees, rain gardens, green roofs, build up not out, public transportation
500
What is saltwater intrusion?
What is the movement of saline water into freshwater aquifers, commonly occurring in coastal areas?
500
Describe TWO ecosystem services provided
for humans by forests. Explain how clear-cutting
would affect each ecosystem service you describe.
500
Rank Irrigation practices from least efficient to most efficient.
Least: Furrow
Spray
Flood
Most: Drip
500
A gardener applied a synthetic fertilizer to their garden for growing season. Describe one benefit of using synthetic fertilizer in the garden.
· The nutrients in synthetic fertilizers are readily available and can be taken up by the plant in a short period of time (days, not weeks).
· Synthetic fertilizers are formulated to have a certain ratio of nutrients, so only the limited nutrient(s) can be added to the soil.
· Synthetic fertilizers are inexpensive and easily available.