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DSST Environmental Science: Land Use
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1. Made by mixing the remains or wastes of organisms including animal manure (essential) - crop residues - fresh vegetation - and compost
Acid mine drainage
Impact of Mountain-Top Removal
Clear cutting
Manmade nitrogen ertilizers
2. To reclaim is to make things level - and to get something growing and prevent erosion - If the U.S were to try to reclaim - it would cost tax payers about 2 trillion dollars.
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977
Biological Control
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Surface mining
3. Cheapest - easiest transportation removal of lumber - Most environmentally harmful - takes all trees - leaves nothing
Economic services
Ecosystem-based Management
Clear cutting
Effect of Monsanto on soybean farming since 1994
4. Clear cutting - Strip cutting - selective cutting
Types of forestry
Ecosystem-based Management
Manmade nitrogen fertilizers
Effect of Monsanto on soybean farming since 1994
5. The uniform planting of a single crop
Monoculture
Community supported agriculture (CSA)
Slag
Naturally occurring pesticides
6. More expensive then clear cutting - leaves rows of trees for reseeding/ future harvesting.
Why malachite was originally left behind as tailing from copper mines
Types of surface mining
Strip Cutting
Undernourishment/Marasmus
7. Recycle batteries - Send large amounts of metal to scrap yards/businesses instead of to landfills (ex. cars - fridges - dishwashers - etc.) - Recycle old electronics like phones and computers to prevent more mining of minerals like tantalum that are
Things people can do to avoid depleting minerals
Impact of Mountain-Top Removal
Biological control (alternative to pesticides)
Protein (usually)
8. Uses the idea that 'the enemy of one's enemy is one's friend' - Battles pests and weeds with organisms that eat or infect them - Can be extremely effective and inexpensive
Ore
Undernourishment/Marasmus
Strip Cutting
Biological control (alternative to pesticides)
9. Locally-based socio-economic model of agriculture and food distribution. also refers to a particular network or association of individuals who have pledged to support one or more local farms - with growers and consumers sharing the risks and benefits
Sustainable Forestry
Community supported agriculture (CSA)
Smelting
Things people can do to avoid depleting minerals
10. Shafts are excavated deep into the ground - and networks of tunnels are dug or blasted out to follow deposits of the mineral. requires removal of the overburden - Used for metals ( zinc - lead - nickel - tin - gold - copper) and coal - Most dangerous
Coal
Surface mining
Costs and downsides of purifying malachite
Undernourishment
11. Genetically engineered using recombinant DNA
Current Population/ 2100 projects of world population
Manure/compost
Nitrate
Genetically modified food
12. Combination of different pest management techniques combined in a specific way best for the place they are being used.
Lesson from Food Inc
Minerals
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Pesticides
13. Soy beans have been genetically modified for better traits. 'Round up Ready' soy beans have made it so that weed killer 'round up' can be sprayed around the plants and kill all the weeds but not the soy bean plants. 'round up ready soy beans' were cr
Strip Cutting
Effect of man made fertilizer on the amount of nitrate in the soil and water from 100 years ago
Risks of Bt Corn
Effect of Monsanto on soybean farming since 1994
14. Natural fertilizers from decomposing solid organic matter; have lots of nitrogen
Manure/compost
Protein (usually)
Economic services
Advantages & Disadvantages of Subsurface mining
15. Can hurt other species - methods used to control other species can become invasive species themselves - Ex. Australia released a virus to kill the excessive rabbits; Australians brought in cane toads to kill beetles on their sugar cane - BUT the toa
Dangers of Biological control
Slag
Manmade nitrogen fertilizers
Community supported agriculture (CSA)
16. A mining technique that involves digging a gigantic hole and removing the desire ORE - along with waste rock that surrounds the ore.
Overburden
Advantages & Disadvantages of Subsurface mining
Economic services
Open pit mine
17. Worthless material that surrounds a wanted mineral in an ore deposit.
Community supported agriculture (CSA)
Mountain-Top Removal
Tailings/ Gangue
Agricultural revolution and technology
18. One farmer=100 eaters.
Clear-cutting
Lesson from Food Inc
Slag
Mechanization/tractors/combines
19. Goal to guarantee an adequate - safe - nutritious - and reliable food supply available to all people at all times
Undernourishment/Marasmus
Selective Cutting
Food security
Things people can do to avoid depleting minerals
20. A single piece of land gardened collectively by a group of people.
Clear cutting
Artificial Organic compounds
Dangers of Biological control
Community garden
21. Heating ore beyond its melting point and combining it with other metals or chemicals ( process of separating).
Selective cutting
Monoculture
Advantages & Disadvantages of Subsurface mining
Smelting
22. Makes money - remove resources from its original location - Firewood - Paper - Lumber - Charocoal - Gem - Hunting - Medicine
Slag
Effect of Monsanto on soybean farming since 1994
Smelting
Economic services
23. A fossil fuel composed of organic matter that was compressed under very high pressure to form a dense - solid carbon structure.
Coal
Pest management
Community supported agriculture (CSA)
What we can do to make forestry more sustainable
24. - the turning and loosening of soil for the planting of crops
What we can do to make forestry more sustainable
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977
Monoculture
Plowing
25. Mining method- mining underground coal deposits - in which shafts are dug deeply into the ground and networks of tunnels are dug to follow coal seams.
Advantages & Disadvantages of surface mining
Biological control (alternative to pesticides)
Effect of Monsanto on soybean farming since 1994
Subsurface mining
26. Choosing valuable trees only - lots of reseeding - transportation is hard.
Lesson from Food Inc
To purify copper from malachite
Protein (usually)
Selective cutting
27. Systematically tests different approaches and aims to improve methods and find ideal over time - Advantages: can be highly effective; works with each specific environment; can protect species; can provide minimum impact - Disadvantages: difficult to
Monoculture
Acid mine drainage
Famine
Adaptive Management
28. way to enhance nutrient-limited soils - Inorganic fertilizers- mined or synthetically manufactured mineral supplements - Organic fertilizers consist of the remains or wastes of organisms that include animal mancure - organic fertilizers can improve
Agricultural revolution and technology
Current Population/ 2100 projects of world population
Malnourishment/Kwashiorkor
Fertilizers
29. Food assistance given to an area. Can take away the incentive to produce food in that area. Distribution is an issue.
What we can do to make forestry more sustainable
Acid mine drainage
Food Aid
Plowing
30. Maximum Sustainable Yield - Ecosystem-based Management - Adaptive Management
Plowing
What we can do to make forestry more sustainable
Types of forestry
Dangers of Biological control
31. Having not enough of something
Undernourishment
Costs and downsides of purifying malachite
Sustainable Forestry
Artificial Organic compounds
32. Completely missing something acquired from food; usually protein or vitamin C
Acid mine drainage
Types of surface mining
Ecological services
Malnourishment/Kwashiorkor
33. The use of heavy machinery to remove huge amounts of earth to expose COAL or MINERALS - which are mined out directly.
Industrial Agriculture/ Factory Farming
How corn yield has changed in the United States since the 1920s
Strip mine
Economic services
34. Manages resource harvesting so as to minimize impact on ecosystem and ecological processes that provide the resource - Advantages: can protect certain areas; can restore habitats; considers surroundings; allows timber harvesting while preserving inte
Ecosystem-based Management
Naturally occurring pesticides
Things people can do to avoid depleting minerals
Effect of Monsanto on soybean farming since 1994
35. Mining method- mountain's forests are clear-cut and the timber is sold - topsoild is removed - and then the rock is blasted away to expose the coal for extraction. Overburden is placed back on the mountaintop. Primarily for coal in the Appalachian Mo
Manmade nitrogen ertilizers
Biological control (alternative to pesticides)
Smelting
Mountain-Top Removal
36. About one million people on Earth 10 -000 years ago. (The Agricultural revolution). Worlds population crossed into 7 billion now - It is unlikely that we will double the 7 billion. We will hit 9 to 11 billion people.
Ecological services
Naturally occurring pesticides
Artificial Organic compounds
Current Population/ 2100 projects of world population
37. There is now more nitrate in the soil and water than ever - sometimes at unsafe levels - Corn harvests have improved
Clear-cutting
Impact of Mountain-Top Removal
Manure/compost
Effect of man made fertilizer on the amount of nitrate in the soil and water from 100 years ago
38. Bio-control can be extremely cost effect - Bio-control can harm other animals - The cane toads control cane beetle in Carribean
Clear-cutting
Biological Control
Undernourishment/Marasmus
Things people can do to avoid depleting minerals
39. Now makes up 80% of corn in the US - Benefits: Contains naturally occurring pesticide - Increases production - could feed more people - Grow more per square area - Doesn't spoil as quickly - Bigger - tastier
Famine
Sustainable Forestry
Nitrate
Bt Corn
40. Organic macromolecules hardest to provide during a famine
Effect of man made fertilizer on the amount of nitrate in the soil and water from 100 years ago
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977
Protein (usually)
Strip mine
41. Educational - Maintain biodiversity - Aesthetics - Oxygen - Improve quality of life - Co2 to O2 - Shade - Habitat/ biodiversity - Erosion - Clean water - Soil enrichment
Fertilizers
Ecological services
Malnourishment/Kwashiorkor
Manmade nitrogen ertilizers
42. Fertilizers - promote plant growth by providing essential nutrients like nitrogen or phosphorus; increases crop yield - Combines/Machinery - allows farmers to work much faster and more efficiently; increases crop yield - Pesticides - kill insects - p
Impact of Mountain-Top Removal
Clear cutting
Sustainable Forestry
Agricultural revolution and technology
43. -boosts yields by intensifying irrigation and introducing synthetic fertilizers - while the advent of chemical pesticides reduce competition from weeds and herbivory by crop pests - Industrial agriculture works best under the condition of monoculture
Undernourishment
Industrial Agriculture/ Factory Farming
Community garden
Undernourishment/Marasmus
44. Not enough of some vitamin/mineral/essential thing in food
Malnourishment/Kwashiorkor
Impact of Mountain-Top Removal
Biological control (alternative to pesticides)
Undernourishment/Marasmus
45. Technology that has vastly increased the amount of food production since the agricultural revolution; currently 1 farmer for every 129 eaters
Pest management
Strip Cutting
Mechanization/tractors/combines
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
46. (Insecticides - Herbicides/ Fungicides) - Artificial chemicals used to kill pests/ insects/plants/fungi
Ore
Coal
Open pit mine
Pesticides
47. Completely missing something
Malnourishment
Smelting
Impact of Mountain-Top Removal
Dangers of Biological control
48. By far the best method for managing pests - Uses chemical pesticides - biocontrol - AND diversity - Not monoculture; things are planted in a mosaic so that if pests attack all of the corn in one area there is still more corn somewhere else - Proven t
Pesticides
Types of forestry
Economic services
Pest management
49. Solid waste from smelts
Selective Cutting
Food Aid
Genetically modified food
Slag
50. A mineral or grouping of minerals from which we extract metals - most metals are found in ore - Copper - iron - lead gold - and aluminum - Used in electronic components of computers - cell phones - DVD players.
Ore
Selective cutting
Artificial Organic compounds
Community supported agriculture (CSA)