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DSST Environmental Science: Land Use
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1. 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.
Subsurface mining
Manure/compost
Sustainable Forestry
Industrial Agriculture/ Factory Farming
2. Maximum Sustainable Yield - Ecosystem-based Management - Adaptive Management
Genetically Modified foods
Types of forestry
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
What we can do to make forestry more sustainable
3. Technology that has vastly increased the amount of food production since the agricultural revolution; currently 1 farmer for every 129 eaters
Costs and downsides of purifying malachite
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977
Advantages & Disadvantages of surface mining
Mechanization/tractors/combines
4. Long term information is unknown - Can take over surrounding ecosystem - Pest-killing toxin also kills insects that should not and are not meant to be killed such as monarch butterflies - Pollen can be carried to nearby plants by wind thus making th
Risks of Bt Corn
Undernourishment/Marasmus
Overburden
Agricultural revolution and technology
5. Makes money - remove resources from its original location - Firewood - Paper - Lumber - Charocoal - Gem - Hunting - Medicine
Things people can do to avoid depleting minerals
Overburden
Slash and Burn
Economic services
6. Completely missing something
Open pit mine
Impact of Mountain-Top Removal
Ecosystem-based Management
Malnourishment
7. -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
Advantages & Disadvantages of Subsurface mining
Effect of Monsanto on soybean farming since 1994
Mountain-Top Removal
Industrial Agriculture/ Factory Farming
8. 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
Types of forestry
Effect of man made fertilizer on the amount of nitrate in the soil and water from 100 years ago
Surface mining
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977
9. Nicotine - Alcohol - Cocaine - if it can kill you - it can kill other living things.
Naturally occurring pesticides
Acid mine drainage
Biological control (alternative to pesticides)
Effect of man made fertilizer on the amount of nitrate in the soil and water from 100 years ago
10. Food assistance given to an area. Can take away the incentive to produce food in that area. Distribution is an issue.
Food Aid
Open pit mine
Genetically Modified foods
Community supported agriculture (CSA)
11. 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
Manmade nitrogen fertilizers
Industrial Agriculture/ Factory Farming
Ore
12. Not enough of some vitamin/mineral/essential thing in food
Ecological services
Undernourishment/Marasmus
Monoculture
Food security
13. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Tailings/ Gangue
Famine
Lesson from Food Inc
Manmade nitrogen fertilizers
14. 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
Smelting
Mountain-Top Removal
Economic services
Effect of Monsanto on soybean farming since 1994
15. 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
Overburden
Advantages & Disadvantages of surface mining
Current Population/ 2100 projects of world population
16. (Insecticides - Herbicides/ Fungicides) - Artificial chemicals used to kill pests/ insects/plants/fungi
Costs and downsides of purifying malachite
Subsurface mining
Selective cutting
Pesticides
17. Solid waste from smelts
Food Aid
Industrial Agriculture/ Factory Farming
Slag
Strip mine
18. Mix the malachite with water and 6M sulfuric acid and heat the mixture - creating a transformation reaction where the only left over matter is the sand - which is then strained out. Iron fillings are then added to the solution - a substitution react
Overburden
Famine
Malnourishment/Kwashiorkor
To purify copper from malachite
19. Strip mining - open pit mining - mountain top removal
Agricultural revolution and technology
Smelting
Types of surface mining
Adaptive Management
20. The FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) examine the practices of firms and rate them against criteria for sustainability - Grant sustainable forest certification to forests - companies - and products produced using methods they consider sustainable.
Ecological services
Agricultural revolution and technology
Smelting
Sustainable Forestry
21. Advantages: removes the least amount of unwanted material so less waste - Disadvantages: potential collapse; sinkholes; acid drainage; pollutes groundwater; risk of injury/death from dynamite blasts - natural gas explosions - inhalation of toxic gass
Pesticides
Advantages & Disadvantages of Subsurface mining
Types of surface mining
Selective Cutting
22. 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
Industrial Agriculture/ Factory Farming
Ore
Strip mine
23. A naturally occurring solid element or inorganic compound with a crystal structure - a specific chemical composition - and distinct physical properties.
Ore
Malnourishment
Minerals
Strip Cutting
24. Completely missing something acquired from food; usually protein or vitamin C
How corn yield has changed in the United States since the 1920s
Strip Cutting
Malnourishment/Kwashiorkor
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
25. Malachite contains sulfides which become strongly acidic when mixed with water and thus pollutes water
Genetically modified food
Costs and downsides of purifying malachite
Sustainable Forestry
Types of forestry
26. Worthless material that surrounds a wanted mineral in an ore deposit.
Tailings/ Gangue
Slash and Burn
Famine
Manure/compost
27. 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
Undernourishment
Effect of man made fertilizer on the amount of nitrate in the soil and water from 100 years ago
Biological control (alternative to pesticides)
Manmade nitrogen fertilizers
28. 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
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Ecosystem-based Management
Dangers of Biological control
Manmade nitrogen ertilizers
29. 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
Advantages & Disadvantages of Subsurface mining
Adaptive Management
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Artificial Organic compounds
30. A single piece of land gardened collectively by a group of people.
Minerals
Pesticides
Community garden
Genetically modified food
31. A fossil fuel composed of organic matter that was compressed under very high pressure to form a dense - solid carbon structure.
To purify copper from malachite
Current Population/ 2100 projects of world population
Coal
Community garden
32. Cut trees shortly after they go through their fastest stage of growth (which is during their intermediate age) - Advantages: maximizes timber production over time - Disadvantages: trees get cut before they mature; alters forest ecology; eliminates ha
Manmade nitrogen fertilizers
Community supported agriculture (CSA)
Maximum Sustainable Yield
Undernourishment
33. 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.
Malnourishment
Mountain-Top Removal
Ore
Maximum Sustainable Yield
34. Cutting the trees down - burning them. Nutrients from the ash go to soil. You have a farmland for ranching cattle or farming soybeans.
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Slash and Burn
Artificial Organic compounds
Advantages & Disadvantages of Subsurface mining
35. In the last 100 years - humans have doubled the amount of organic nitrogen in the biosphere by artificial synthesis of ammonia.
Strip mine
Biological control (alternative to pesticides)
Strip cutting
Manmade nitrogen fertilizers
36. 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 mine
Effect of Monsanto on soybean farming since 1994
Manmade nitrogen fertilizers
Mechanization/tractors/combines
37. Having not enough of something
Pest management
To purify copper from malachite
Maximum Sustainable Yield
Undernourishment
38. Organic macromolecules hardest to provide during a famine
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977
Protein (usually)
Mountain-Top Removal
Why malachite was originally left behind as tailing from copper mines
39. The uniform planting of a single crop
Undernourishment/Marasmus
Monoculture
Advantages & Disadvantages of surface mining
Economic services
40. Do not naturally occur in the environment - but are synthesized by man. Since all these compounds have carbon and hydrogen atoms as the basis of their molecule (as do living plants and animals) - they are referred to as organic compounds to form pest
Risks of Bt Corn
Artificial Organic compounds
Strip Cutting
Surface mining
41. - the turning and loosening of soil for the planting of crops
Slash and Burn
Plowing
Manure/compost
Advantages & Disadvantages of surface mining
42. 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
Food Aid
Selective Cutting
Ore
Community supported agriculture (CSA)
43. Harvesting only mature trees of certain species and size; usually more expensive then clear-cutting but it is less disruptive for wildlife and often better for forest regeneration
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Famine
To purify copper from malachite
Selective Cutting
44. Goal to guarantee an adequate - safe - nutritious - and reliable food supply available to all people at all times
Food security
Effect of Monsanto on soybean farming since 1994
Protein (usually)
Manmade nitrogen fertilizers
45. 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.
Acid mine drainage
Current Population/ 2100 projects of world population
Why malachite was originally left behind as tailing from copper mines
Slag
46. 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
Artificial Organic compounds
Fertilizers
Dangers of Biological control
Undernourishment
47. Technology was not able to profitably remove the copper from the malachite
Advantages & Disadvantages of Subsurface mining
Why malachite was originally left behind as tailing from copper mines
Undernourishment
Manmade nitrogen ertilizers
48. 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
Bt Corn
Artificial Organic compounds
Fertilizers
Coal
49. Controversial logging practice where all trees in an area are uniformly cut down - used by foresters to create certain types of forest ecosystems and to promote select species that requires an abudnace of sunlight or grow in large - even--age stands
How corn yield has changed in the United States since the 1920s
Famine
Acid mine drainage
Clear-cutting
50. Made by mixing the remains or wastes of organisms including animal manure (essential) - crop residues - fresh vegetation - and compost
Manmade nitrogen ertilizers
Pesticides
Subsurface mining
Things people can do to avoid depleting minerals