Vocabulary
This is the technique used for farming to reduce runoff on steep slopes.
What is contour farming?
What is terrace farming?
This is when DNA is altered in a plant to produce a specific result.
What is a Genetically Modified Organism?
This has been shown to reduce temperatures, as well as increase infiltration in cities.
What is permeable concrete?
what are light colored building materials
This is the organized growing of marine organisms for consumption.
What is aquaculture?
What is "Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations"?
This is a solution for monoculture.
What is crop rotation?
What is interplanting?
This is the problem for the water cycle in cities.
What is changes to runoff/infiltration rates?
What is an increase in impermeable surfaces?
This is the meat source with the highest demand on water per kg protein.
What is beef?
This is the phenomena that results from overuse of shared land.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
Agriculture practice that results in soil degradation and contributes to erosion.
What is tilling?
Explain albedo and why cities have low albedo.
albedo is how well the Earth reflects light. Most concrete and buildings are made of dark materials, which absorbs light rather than reflects.
This is the least effective method of irrigation.
What is flood irrigation?
This is a sustainable forestry example.
what are prescribed burns?
What is selective logging/cutting?
Why would someone clear cut a forest?
What is short-term profit?
This is the uncontrolled spread of a city.
What is urban sprawl?
This is the fishing technique where nets are dragged along the bottom of the seafloor.
What is trawling?
This is when the ground has acculumated an excess of water soluble minerals.
What is salinization?
This is the overall goal of Integrated Pest Management.
What is a reduction of synthetic pesticides?
What is an additional benefit to rooftop gardens in cities, other than increasing water infiltration?
Reduction of Carbon Dioxide
Name a drawback of aquaculture.
High density causes high concentration of waste (includes nitrogen, phosphorus, fecal coliform, antibiotics, eutrophication), increased disease risk, introduction of invasive species.