Resource Management
Resources like soil, fresh water, wild animals, and timber are considered this kind of resources.
What are renewable resources? (will also accept sustainable resources)
Resource managers who manage public or private forests are called this.
What are foresters?
This is the name for the base geological material for soil in a certain area. It could be lava, sand, or bedrock.
What is parent material?
The deterioration of soil characteristics is called this.
What is soil degradation?
This word refers to the amount of crop produced in a given area.
What is a yield?
This term refers to the careful use and managing of harvesting of a material so that it is not depleted.
What is resource management?
A stand of trees that all were cut down at the same time result in this kind of stand as they grow back.
What is an even-aged stand?
The darker organic material that indicates a healthy soil is called this.
What is humus?
What is overgrazing?
Feedlots, crop monocultures, and aquacultures are all hallmarks of this type of farming.
What is industrial agriculture?
This type of management aims to focus on the health of the environment around the resource and protect the process that form the resource.
What is ecosystem-based management?
The removal of snags and small branches in a forest, usually after a disturbance, is called this.
What is salvage logging?
All of the different layers of soil in an area is called this sky-sounding word.
What is a soil horizon?
This kind of soil conservation technique refers to farmers mixing different crops in one field.
What is intercropping?
This term refers to a kind of land that is suitable for farming. (must be pronounced correctly!)
What is arable?
Adaptive management involves scientifically testing plans, and then doing this based on the results.
What is customizing an approach?
This name refers to a forest that has never been logged.
What is an old-growth forest?
This refers to the breaking down of rocks and minerals into soil through non-physical means.
What is chemical weathering?
Desertification occurs when soil loses more than this amount of productivity due to erosion.
What is more than 10%?
Sometimes, farmers and scientists will battle pests using this method, where they use organisms that prey on or infect the pest, like spiders protecting cranberry fields.
What is biological pest control?
The aim of maximum sustainable yield is to maximize yield while not reducing future harvests, so population sizes are usually kept like this.
What is low/below carrying capacity?
National forest management in the past was guided by this process, which mandated that forests be managed for many purposes.
These are the three particles that classify soil based on texture. (name all three, double points if you get the sizes too!)
What are sand, silt, and clay? (sand is largest, clay is smallest, and silt is in the middle)
Diseases like kwashiorkor or marasmus can result from this, which is a condition where someone is not getting the nutrients they need.
What is malnutrition?