Vocabulary
This is the name for groups of fish used for commercial fishing.
What is a fishery.
This is when DNA is altered in a plant to produce a specific result.
What is a Genetically Modified Organism?
This has been shown to reduce temperatures, as well as increase infiltration in cities.
This is the organized growing of marine organisms for consumption.
What is aquaculture?
Commercially valuable mineral deposits that can be used as raw materials.
What is an ore?
This was a movement from small scale farming to mechanized farming.
What is the Green Revolution?
This is a solution for monoculture.
What is crop rotation?
What is interplanting?
This is the problem for the water cycle in cities.
What is changes to runoff/infiltration rates?
What is an increase in impermeable surfaces?
This is the meat source with the highest demand on water per kg protein.
What is beef?
2 direct effects of clearcutting.
What are: soil erosion, increased soil temperature, increased stream temperatures, flooding, landslides?
This is the phenomena that results from overuse of shared land.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
This is the use of living organisms to deter pests.
What is biocontrol?
A reason why people may leave the city
More space, cheaper prices, don't feel belonging....
This is the least effective method of irrigation.
What is furrow irrigation?
Fires deliberately set under controlled conditions to decrease dead mass on the forest floor.
What is a prescribed burn?
This is the technique used for farming to reduce runoff on steep slopes.
What is contour farming?
What is terrace farming?
Why would someone clear cut a forest?
What is short-term profit?
This is the uncontrolled spread of a city.
What is urban sprawl?
This is the fishing technique where nets are dragged along the bottom of the seafloor.
What is trawling?
The process of restoring land to original state after mining has finished.
What is reclamation?
This is when the ground has acculumated an excess of water soluble minerals.
What is salinization?
This is the overall goal of Integrated Pest Management.
What is a reduction of synthetic pesticides?
What is an additional benefit to rain gardens in cities, other than increasing water infiltration?
What is reduction of carbon dioxide?
This method of irrigation is the most costly to set up but the most efficient to use.
What is drip irrigation?
Sustainable alternatives to clearcutting.
What is selective cutting, strip cutting, tree plantations (when done well)?
Name the pesticides type used to kill a rat and the pesticide type used to kill funguses
What is rodenticide and fungicide?
When cattle are allowed to feed in an area for to long it is called this__________ which can cause ____________ making the land usable.
What is overgrazing and dessertification?
This is a building that has reduced its ecological footprint.
What is a green building?
The term when the water level drops due to a well and the term for ocean water entering a well.
What are cone of depression and saltwater intrusion?
The 'useless' materials removed during mining.
What is overburden?
A difference between ecological and carbon footprint
Ecological footprint measured in area global hectare
Carbon footprint measured in tonnes of carbon
List 3 harmful substances found in animal waste.
What is ammonia, hormones, antibiotics, and bacteria (e. coli)?
A way to make cities more sustainable
Plant trees, rain gardens, green roofs, build up not out, public transportation
When this percent of the population is left the population will collapse.
What is 10%?
How does acid mine drainage form?
The overburden often containing a sulfur containing compound called pyrite. A chemical reaction occurs that produces sulfuric acid.