Agriculture
Contour plowing, terracing, perennial crops, windbreaks, no till, strip cropping.
What are methods of soil conservation?
2 direct effects of clearcutting.
What are: soil erosion, increased soil temperature, increased stream temperatures, flooding, landslides?
When overfishing causes a 90% population decline in a fishery.
What is fishery collapse?
Commercially valuable mineral deposits that can be used as raw materials.
What is an ore?
Surfaces that prevent water from infiltrating into the ground; increasing the likelihood of flooding.
What are impervious surfaces?
An example of a plant that restores nitrogen to the soil.
What are legumes: clover, alfafa, peanuts, beans, etc.?
List 2 consequences of deforestation.
What are: reduce CO2 sequestration, reduce air filtering, added CO2 during decomposition, slash and burn, loss of habitats, lowered biodiversity?
Negative impacts of this process include bycatch, coral reef destruction, lowered biodiversity, and stirred up sediments.
What is bottom trawling?
The process of restoring land to original state after mining has finished.
What is reclamation?
The removal of vegetation to convert natural landscape to city.
What is urbanization?
Occurs when pesticides are overused and are no longer effective.
What is pesticide resistance.
Fires deliberately set under controlled conditions to decrease dead mass on the forest floor.
What is a prescribed burn?
Reasons why meat production for consumption is less efficient than producing plants.
What is energy, land, and water use?
Mine shaft collapse, toxic gas exposure, fires, acid mine drainage, health problems.
What are impacts of subsurface mining?
Salt water enters groundwater sources by excessive withdrawal or sea level rise.
What is a saltwater intrusion?
3 types of integrated pest management.
What are biocontrol, crop rotation, and intercropping?
What is selective cutting, strip cutting, tree plantations (when done well)?
List 3 harmful substances found in animal waste.
What is ammonia, hormones, antibiotics, and bacteria (e. coli)?
What are: calcium carbonate, sodium hydroxide, sodium bicarbonate, anhydrous ammonia?
List 3 solutions to urban runoff.
What are: permeable pavements, rain gardens, public transportation, building vertically, green roofs, dry wells, rain barrels, etc?