Impacts of Mining
Concentrated accumulations of minerals from which economically valuable materials can be extracted.
What are Ores?
The tendency for a shared, limited resource to become depleted if not regulated.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
The process of an area becoming more urban.
What is urbanization?
The measure of the area of land and water an individual, population, or activity requires to produce all the resources it consumes and to process the waste it generates.
What is ecological footprint?
The process of restocking trees after clear-cutting.
What is reforestation?
This is a development that balances current human well-being and economic advancement with resource management for the benefit of future generations.
What is sustainable development?
Removal of overburden to expose the underlying ore.
What is strip mining?
This agency mostly regulates grazing, mining, timber harvesting, and recreation.
What is the Bureau of Land Management (BoLM)
This is the uncontrolled spread of a city.
What is urban sprawl?
The measure of the total carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from direct and indirect use by persons, a country, or other entities.
What is a carbon footprint?
The method for managing forests so they provide wood while also providing clean water, massive biodiversity, and maximum carbon sequestration in both trees and soil.
What is sustainable forestry?
This is the largest quantity of a renewable resource that can be harvested indefinitely.
What is the maximum sustainable yield (MSY)?
A mining technique that uses explosives in mountainous regions.
What is mountaintop removal?
This agency mostly regulates timber harvesting, grazing, and regulation.
What is the United States Forest Service (USFS)?
A surface that does not allow for water penetration.
What are impervious surfaces?
This country has the highest ecological footprint in the world.
What is the United States?
Fires are deliberately set under controlled conditions to decrease the dead mass on the forest floor.
What is a prescribed burn?
As a general rule of thumb, this is the starting point for maximum sustainable yield.
What is 50% of the carrying capacity?
Strip mining most often leads to this environmental outcome.
What is erosion?
This agency regulates mostly recreation and conservation.
What is the National Park Service (NPS).
Name two negative impacts of urbanization.
Noise pollution
Air pollution
Littering
Water pollution
Saltwater intrusion
Increased CO2 emissions
This status is an indicator of a higher ecological footprint.
What is affluence?
2 direct effects of clear-cutting.
What are: soil erosion, increased soil temperature, increased stream temperatures, flooding, and landslides?
This is the term given to changes made by human activities.
What is anthropogenic? Or anthropomorphic.
This disease is most common in subsurface coal mining.
What is black lung disease?
This agency regulates mostly wildlife conservation, hunting, and recreation.
What is the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).
This is a way to reduce urban sprawl.
What is building up, or building vertically?
This method can decrease your ecological footprint.
What is travel less
carpool
eat less beef
etc...
Sustainable alternatives to clearcutting.
What is selective cutting, strip cutting, and tree plantations (when done well)?
Disproportionate use of World resources comes from these types of countries.
What is developed?