Vocabulary
_____ cutting is cutting down only some of the trees in a forest and leaving a mix of sizes and species.
What is selective cutting?
Different species of trees grow at different ______.
What are rates?
Fish are an important global _____ resource.
What is food?
An area with a large population of valuable ocean organisms is called a...
What is a Fishery?
We lose a piece of forest the size of a soccer field every two _______.
What are seconds?
Laws can ban the fishing of certain ______.
What are species?
What are the two major methods of logging?
What are clear and selective cutting?
The Forest Stewardship Council is an international organization dedicated to...
What is sustainable forest management?
Today, about ______ different fish species are harvested for food.
What is 9,000?
A sustainable yield is an amount of a renewable resource, such as trees, that can be harvested regularly without...
What is reducing the future supply?
many products are made from the ______, ______, and other parts of forest _______.
What are fruits, seeds, and plants?
More than half the __________ eaten by people throughout the world comes from fish.
What is animal protein?
What is the definition of aquaculuture?
What is the practice of raising fish and other underwater dwelling organisms for food.
Forests provide...
What are food, oxygen, and medicine.
What can cause population decrease in a Fishery?
What is catching the young fish faster than they can reproduce?