Sustainable Land Use
This farming method involves growing different crops on the same land each season to keep soil healthy.
What is crop rotation?
This unit is used to measure changes in global temperature targets discussed by scientists.
What is degrees Celsius?
Community gardens in cities mainly help residents gain better access to this.
What is fresh food?
This massive collection of trash is found in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
Excess nutrients in water that cause algal blooms describe this process.
What is eutrophication?
One major benefit of crop rotation is that it allows soil to be productive for longer periods. Why?
What is preventing soil nutrient depletion?
Extreme weather events and ecological disasters may increase if global temperatures continue to rise. True or false?
What is true?
A major social benefit of community gardens is improved community members’ _____.
What is health?
The most effective waste-management strategy focuses on reducing the use of this material.
What is plastic?
Agricultural runoff often contains these harmful substances.
What are fertilizers and chemicals?
Practices that allow land to be used long-term without harming future resources are called this.
What is sustainable land use?
Sustainable land use will completely stop climate change. True or false?
What is false?
Community gardens are an example of using land in a more _____ way.
What is sustainable?
Burning trash can increase pollution instead of reducing it. True or false?
What is true?
Monitoring environmental data helps communities advocate for this.
What is policy change?
Following sustainable land-use practices can help slow increases in this global issue.
What is global temperature rise (climate change)?
This is an example of a catastrophic weather event linked to climate change.
What is a hurricane?
Community gardens reduce food insecurity by increasing access to these items.
What are fruits and vegetables?
Which waste strategy has the least environmental impact: reducing, reusing, or replacing materials?
What is reducing?
Toxic algal blooms are dangerous because they reduce this important resource in water.
What is oxygen?
If sustainable land-use goals are met, scientists predict this environmental benefit.
What is slowing the increase of global average temperatures?
Land-use changes are one way humans can help reduce this global problem.
What is climate change?
Community gardens mainly benefit people socially, not by eliminating this necessity.
What is employment?
Improper waste management can lead to this environmental consequence.
What is increased environmental pollution?
Monitoring runoff helps ensure water and soil do not become _____.
What is polluted?