UNIT 4 APES FINAL

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Agriculture

According to the Miller textbook which human activity has the greatest harmful environmental impact

Some agriculture systems mimic the functions of natural systems (ex. Rice paddies&wetlands)

Agriculture has negatively affected the environment in all of the following ways except

Alternative energy sources like sunlight and water

All of the following are direct values that forests provide for man EXCEPT

Mowing, prescribed burns, and planting

As a grassland manager you may use the following tools:

Prevent more destructive fires and free valuable nutrients

Benefits of occasional fires

Florida Everglades

Case of ecological restoration and rehab; attempt to redirect water supply

Bottom Trawling

Dragging of weighed net along the bottom to capture species on the ocean floor

Individual Transfer Rights

Fishing rights that can be bought, sold, or leased at market rates are called

Early in mitosis

Foods can be genetically engineered

Forests provide timber and fuelwood

Forests provide ALL of the following ecological services except

Net productivity + cell respiration

Gross primary productivity

Crop Rotation

Growing corn rich grain then switching to legume to help top soil

Alley cropping

Growing crops between rows of trees

Polyculture

Growing many different types of trees or avoiding tilling and pesticides

Legal for use in plants and animals to be consumed and difficult to trace since they may not be labeled

In the US, GMOs are

Fisheries are unsustainable

Increased fish print and bio capacity in breeding pairs

Rachel Carson

Increased public awareness of DDT

Oligotrophic

Lakes that are characterized by high water clarity and low concentrations of dissolved nutrients are classified

A horizon

Layer of soil with must humus and organisms

Erosion and sertication

Major effect of overgrazing

Crown fires

Not an alternative to pesticides

Surface fires

Not threats to forests

Compost

Organic fertilizer made when organisms in soil break down organic matter

Mitigation Banking

Policy allowing destruction of existing wetlands are long as an equal area of the same type of wetland is created and restored

Biodiversity hotspots

Range of different life forms

Integrated Pest Management

Reduction of crop damage to an economically sound level

Effectively locates large schools of fish;

Sonar fishing

Cutting small groups of medium and large sized trees in uneven aged forests

Sustainable use of forests in US would be encouraged by

Physically unstable soils that were exposed to strong winds

The historic dust storm in post settlement Kansas and the plain states were caused by

Wheat rice and corn

Three most popular sources of nutrients

Euthropic

Water is characterized by increased rates of plant growth

Consumer demand and legal for science use

Whaling is controversial

Prescribed burns

What is a feature of parks that contributes to the maintenance of biodiversity at the landscape level?

Increased water temperature

When logging is carried out in a watershed, a likely effect on the local stream system is

The reintroduction helped to re-establish and sustain biodiversity in Yellowstone

Which of the following WAS a result of the 1996 reintroduction of Gray Wolves to Yellowstone Park?

Too many fish of reproductive age are harvested, making it hard to predict the population size of fisheries

Which of the following best explains why the maximum sustainable yield for ocean fisheries has been exceeded?

Crop rotation between harvests

Which of the following is NOT associated with the green revolution

Second growth forests

Which of the forest varieties listed below results naturally from secondary succession?


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