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A tree plantation may also be referred to by two other names. Name one.
What is a tree farm or a commercial forest?
100
What percent of all wood used is wasted in the U.S.?
What happens to 60% of all wood used?
100
This term describes unfenced grassland n temperate and tropical climates that supply vegetation for grazing and browsing animals.
What is a rangeland?
100
A term for large areas of undeveloped land.
What is the (a) wilderness?
100
Most biologists and wildlife conservatives believe that we must focus more on this than saving individual species?
What is protecting and sustaining ecosystems?
200
This is the temporary or permanent removal of large expanses of forest for agriculture, settlements, or other uses.
What is deforestation?
200
This act allows companies to cut down larger trees in 71% of forests in exchange for clearing underbrush.
What is the Healthy Forests Restoration Act?
200
This occurs when too many animals graze for too long and exceed the carrying capacity of a rangeland area.
What is overgrazing?
200
This will require protecting many of earth's undisturbed land area, like parks.
What is sustaining biodiversity?
200
In this type of area, people live in severe poverty, and most of its economy depends on ecosystem services that are being degraded.
What is a life raft ecosystem?
300
What type of forest fire prevents more destructive fires, along with other ecological benefits?
What is a surface fire?
300
This country used to be a "tropical paradise" with many forests, but is now an "ecological disaster".
What is Haiti?
300
This is a managed grassland or enclosed meadow usually planted with domesticated grasses or other forage.
What is a pasture?
300
In the U.S., these private and nonprofit groups have protected large areas of land.
What is a land trust group?
300
This will require a global effort to rehabilitate and restore damaged ecosystems.
What is sustaining biodiversity?
400
This nation has more than 30% of the world's remaining tropical rain forest. It covers the vast Amazon basin.
What is Brazil?
400
This nation did achieved great reforestation after the North and South Korean War.
What is South Korea?
400
This occurs with absence of grazing for long periods.
What is undergrazing?
400
This percentage of earth's land area is protected strictly or partially by parks, wildlife refuges, etc.
What is 12% of the earth's land area?
400
This science focuses on inventing, establishing, and maintaining new habits to conserve species diversity in places where people live, work, or play.
What is reconciliation or applied ecology?
500
What time period saw the most destruction of old-growth forests in the United States?
What is 1920-1960?
500
This strategy involves governments' or privation conservation organizations' paying nations for concessions to preserve their natural resources.
What is conservation concessions?
500
This is a deed restriction that bars future ranch owners rom developing the land.
What is conservation easement?
500
This country devotes a larger portion of its land to biodiversity conservation than does any other nation.
What is Costa Rica?
500
This is the process of repairing damage caused by humans to the biodiversity and dynamics of natural ecosystems.
What is ecological restoration?