Meat Production & Overfishing
This is what CAFOs stands for?
What is "Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations"?
This is the phenomena that results from overuse of shared land.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
This is when DNA is altered in a plant to produce a specific result.
What is a Genetically Modified Organism?
The systematic removal of rock or other substance for financial gain.
A. smelting
B. urban farming
C. forestry
D. mining
What is mining?
This is the organized growing of marine organisms for consumption.
What is aquaculture
Which practice is commonly used to increase meat production in confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs)?
A. Contour plowing
B. Crop rotation
C. Use of antibiotics
D. No-till farming
What is "Use of antibiotics"
The process by which water-soluble salts accumulate in soil.
What is Salinization
This is the use of living organisms to deter pests.
What is biocontrol?
Name a method to reduce urban runoff?
Permeable/porous pavement
Planting trees in strips/sidewalk boxes
Increase the use of public transportation (instead of individualized, to reduce pollutants entering runoff)
Investing to build upwards, not outwards (urban sprawl)
Which of the following statements about aquaculture is false?
A. Is efficient and very profitable
B. Was established to help reduce pressure on natural fish population
C. Has no negative impacts on the environment
D. Involves growing fish in ponds, holding tanks, and floating nets.
What is Has no negative impacts on the environment
What strategy listed below is best to combat overfishing?
A. Increase the rate of seafloor fishing
B. Increase fishing net size to capture mostly big fish
C. Increase cyanide fishing practices
D. Increase ghost fishing practices
Increase fishing net size to capture mostly big fish
This is the overall goal of Integrated Pest Management.
What is a reduction of synthetic pesticides?
Which agricultural practice results in soil degradation and soil erosion?
A. Tilling
B. Crop rotation
C. Intercropping
D. Terracing
What is Tilling
This is the uncontrolled spread of a city.
What is urban sprawl?
Many people consider the open ocean to be a common because.
A. Different fish congregate in the open ocean
B. The open ocean is a host to international fisheries
C. Fishing is prohibited in the open ocean
D. Open ocean supports high biodiversity
What is "The open ocean is a host to international fisheries".
This is the meat source with the highest demand on water per kg protein.
What is beef
Which of the following is an unintended consequence associated with water logging caused by flood irrigation?
A. High water tables
B. Relatively low cost
C. Decreased erosion and soil loss
D. Increased oxygen intake by plant roots
What is High water tables
This is the least effective method of irrigation.
What is flood irrigation
This is the problem for the water cycle in cities.
What is changes to runoff/infiltration rates?
What is an increase in impermeable surfaces?
Which of the following is a negative consequence of aquaculture?
A. Protein-rich food is provided to billions of people
B. Pressure on wild fish populations is reduced
C. Excessive amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus can leak from the location.
D. Other species may be accidently removed during harvest.
What is Excessive amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus can leak from the location.
True or False.
CAFOs provide a high-cost source of meat
What is False
Which is an example of an industrial practice that contributes to the tragedy of the commons?
A. Burning fossil fuels for energy production
B. Creating constructed wetlands on abandoned land
C. Enacting and enforcing legislation on point-source pollutants.
D. Promoting aluminum and glass recycling
What is burning fossil fuels for energy production
What is an advantage and disadvantage of drip irrigation?
It efficiently delivers water to the plant roots but very expensive system for farmers to implement
Which of the following aspects in the design for this new urban development would likely have the most negative environmental impact.
A. Two basketball courts
B. Five apartment buildings
C. 10-acre green space
D. The playground
What is Five apartment buildings
Which of the following is an example of an environmental benefit of aquaculture?
A. Raising large number of fish in a small are near the shore will increase the profitability of the fish harvest.
B. Raising fish using aquaculture and feeding human populations with the harvest reduces the number of fish caught from the ocean.
C. Aquaculture supports the food supply for humans, and the fish can be released into the wild to repopulate the oceans.
D. Aquaculture results in large amounts of fish that can feed large numbers of people which helps to increase human population.
What is "Raising fish using aquaculture and feeding human populations with the harvest reduces the number of fish caught from the ocean."