The logging practice that removes all trees from an area.
Clear-cutting
100
The smaller communities that ring cities.
Suburbs
100
Soil resources, particularly topsoil, are of direct importance to us because they support the plants we grow food and and fiber and thus play a central role in agriculture.
Why is topsoil important to us?
100
Urbanization
What is the shift from the countryside into towns and cities?
100
30%
What percentage does forests cover Earth's land surface?
200
The clearing and loss of forests.
Deforestation
200
The professional pursuit that attempts to design cities so as to maximize their efficiency, functionality, and beauty.
City Planning
200
Drinking, agriculture, irrigating crops, proper function of ecosystems, ect.
What are some ways fresh water is necessary for?
200
Urban Centers
Where are population and political power concentrated?
200
Deforestation
What has altered the landscapes and ecosystems of much of our planet?
300
The removal of dead trees, or snags, following a natural disturbance.
Salvage Logging
300
A line on a map intended to separate areas desired to be urban from areas desired to remain rural.
Urban Growth Boundary
300
Maximum Sustainable Yield
What is one guiding principle in resource management?
300
Suburbs
Three our of every four people already live in cities, towns, and ________.
300
Even-aged
Because all trees in a given stand are plated at the same time, the stands are _______, with all trees the same age.
400
Involves systematically testing different management approaches and aiming to improve methods as time goes on.
Adaptive Management
400
The spread of low-density urban or suburban development outward from an urban center.
Sprawl
400
Ecosystem-based Management
What attempts to manage the harvesting of resources in ways that minimize impace on the ecosystems and ecological processes that provide the resource?
400
Tokyo, Japan
What is the world's most populous city?
400
Human population growth and per capita land consumption.
What are the two main components of sprawl?
500
The practice of harvesting potentially renewable resources in ways that do not deplete them.
Resource Management
500
The practice of classifying areas for different types of development and land use.