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DSST Environmental Science: Land Use
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1. 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
Food Aid
Things people can do to avoid depleting minerals
Economic services
Mountain-Top Removal
2. A single piece of land gardened collectively by a group of people.
Plowing
Community garden
Food Aid
Risks of Bt Corn
3. 1990 Clean Air Act amendments encouraged clean-burning low-sulfur coal led to more mining in Appalachia -dumping ton of debris sinto valley degrades and destroys areas of habitat -social and health impacts. loose rock tumbles down into homes - overl
Why malachite was originally left behind as tailing from copper mines
Impact of Mountain-Top Removal
Mountain-Top Removal
Mechanization/tractors/combines
4. 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
Food Aid
Pest management
Minerals
Naturally occurring pesticides
5. 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
Advantages & Disadvantages of Subsurface mining
Effect of Monsanto on soybean farming since 1994
Dangers of Biological control
Agricultural revolution and technology
6. 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
Community garden
Sustainable Forestry
Selective Cutting
Undernourishment
7. The surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits
Clear cutting
Overburden
Clear-cutting
Biological Control
8. One farmer=100 eaters.
Naturally occurring pesticides
Minerals
Lesson from Food Inc
Strip mine
9. The uniform planting of a single crop
Effect of man made fertilizer on the amount of nitrate in the soil and water from 100 years ago
Monoculture
Food Aid
How corn yield has changed in the United States since the 1920s
10. Food assistance given to an area. Can take away the incentive to produce food in that area. Distribution is an issue.
Tailings/ Gangue
Ecosystem-based Management
Malnourishment
Food Aid
11. When sulfide minerals in newly exposed rock surfaces react with oxygen and rainwater to produce sulfuric acid - causing runoff as it leaches metals from the rocks
Lesson from Food Inc
Fertilizers
Pest management
Acid mine drainage
12. 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
Pesticides
Surface mining
Smelting
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
13. Technology was not able to profitably remove the copper from the malachite
Manmade nitrogen ertilizers
Artificial Organic compounds
Genetically Modified foods
Why malachite was originally left behind as tailing from copper mines
14. The golden molecule for plants because it makes them grow - Leagues have special nitrogen fixing bacteria in their rhizomes (roots) - Three covalent bonds for N2. Stronger the covalent bonds - the harder it is to react. Nitrogen gas is inert.
Nitrate
Ecological services
Why malachite was originally left behind as tailing from copper mines
Undernourishment
15. Having not enough of something
Current Population/ 2100 projects of world population
Ecosystem-based Management
Lesson from Food Inc
Undernourishment
16. 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
Selective Cutting
Naturally occurring pesticides
Lesson from Food Inc
Community supported agriculture (CSA)
17. Educational - Maintain biodiversity - Aesthetics - Oxygen - Improve quality of life - Co2 to O2 - Shade - Habitat/ biodiversity - Erosion - Clean water - Soil enrichment
Ecological services
Types of forestry
Slag
Undernourishment
18. Completely missing something
Undernourishment/Marasmus
Malnourishment
Manure/compost
To purify copper from malachite
19. 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.
Plowing
Manure/compost
Monoculture
Subsurface mining
20. A naturally occurring solid element or inorganic compound with a crystal structure - a specific chemical composition - and distinct physical properties.
Genetically modified food
Minerals
Subsurface mining
Protein (usually)
21. 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
Effect of Monsanto on soybean farming since 1994
Community garden
Ore
Pesticides
22. 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
Plowing
Pest management
Mountain-Top Removal
Things people can do to avoid depleting minerals
23. Goal to guarantee an adequate - safe - nutritious - and reliable food supply available to all people at all times
Genetically modified food
Food security
Surface mining
Protein (usually)
24. Strip mining - open pit mining - mountain top removal
Types of surface mining
Things people can do to avoid depleting minerals
Mechanization/tractors/combines
Clear cutting
25. Heating ore beyond its melting point and combining it with other metals or chemicals ( process of separating).
Smelting
Biological control (alternative to pesticides)
Overburden
Tailings/ Gangue
26. 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
Sustainable Forestry
Selective Cutting
Naturally occurring pesticides
Risks of Bt Corn
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
Biological control (alternative to pesticides)
Mechanization/tractors/combines
Effect of man made fertilizer on the amount of nitrate in the soil and water from 100 years ago
Advantages & Disadvantages of surface mining
28. In the last 100 years - humans have doubled the amount of organic nitrogen in the biosphere by artificial synthesis of ammonia.
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977
Manmade nitrogen fertilizers
Surface mining
Community supported agriculture (CSA)
29. Combination of different pest management techniques combined in a specific way best for the place they are being used.
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977
Risks of Bt Corn
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Sustainable Forestry
30. 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.
Food Aid
Mechanization/tractors/combines
Sustainable Forestry
Genetically Modified foods
31. Malachite contains sulfides which become strongly acidic when mixed with water and thus pollutes water
Community garden
Biological control (alternative to pesticides)
Naturally occurring pesticides
Costs and downsides of purifying malachite
32. Completely missing something acquired from food; usually protein or vitamin C
Strip cutting
Acid mine drainage
Malnourishment/Kwashiorkor
Adaptive Management
33. Solid waste from smelts
Slag
Naturally occurring pesticides
Food Aid
Strip Cutting
34. 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
Food Aid
Maximum Sustainable Yield
Clear-cutting
Risks of Bt Corn
35. Nicotine - Alcohol - Cocaine - if it can kill you - it can kill other living things.
Naturally occurring pesticides
Costs and downsides of purifying malachite
Plowing
Adaptive Management
36. 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.
Maximum Sustainable Yield
Ore
Undernourishment
Pest management
37. Makes money - remove resources from its original location - Firewood - Paper - Lumber - Charocoal - Gem - Hunting - Medicine
Economic services
Naturally occurring pesticides
Undernourishment
Effect of Monsanto on soybean farming since 1994
38. Cheap - But - removes all overburden (trees - soil - rocks - etc.); obliterates natural communities b/c everything has been removed; leads to erosion; causes sulfuric acid run-off;
Undernourishment
Strip Cutting
Advantages & Disadvantages of surface mining
Naturally occurring pesticides
39. Corn yield has increased dramatically in the US since the 1920s because it was in the 1920s that GM corn started to be developed
Biological control (alternative to pesticides)
To purify copper from malachite
Selective Cutting
How corn yield has changed in the United States since the 1920s
40. Maximum Sustainable Yield - Ecosystem-based Management - Adaptive Management
What we can do to make forestry more sustainable
Undernourishment
Manmade nitrogen fertilizers
Genetically Modified foods
41. A mining technique that involves digging a gigantic hole and removing the desire ORE - along with waste rock that surrounds the ore.
Open pit mine
Genetically modified food
Dangers of Biological control
Biological Control
42. Technology that has vastly increased the amount of food production since the agricultural revolution; currently 1 farmer for every 129 eaters
Clear-cutting
Mechanization/tractors/combines
Current Population/ 2100 projects of world population
Why malachite was originally left behind as tailing from copper mines
43. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Strip Cutting
Manmade nitrogen fertilizers
Minerals
44. - the turning and loosening of soil for the planting of crops
Undernourishment/Marasmus
Dangers of Biological control
Plowing
To purify copper from malachite
45. More expensive then clear cutting - leaves rows of trees for reseeding/ future harvesting.
Selective Cutting
What we can do to make forestry more sustainable
Manmade nitrogen ertilizers
Strip Cutting
46. Foods derived from genetically modified organisms. Genetically modified organisms have had specific changes introduced into their DNA by genetic engineering techniques. include selective breeding; plant breeding. Typically - genetically modified food
Current Population/ 2100 projects of world population
Overburden
Genetically Modified foods
Selective cutting
47. 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.
Undernourishment/Marasmus
Acid mine drainage
Current Population/ 2100 projects of world population
Overburden
48. 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
Food Aid
Costs and downsides of purifying malachite
Open pit mine
Agricultural revolution and technology
49. (Insecticides - Herbicides/ Fungicides) - Artificial chemicals used to kill pests/ insects/plants/fungi
Nitrate
Minerals
Types of surface mining
Pesticides
50. Choosing valuable trees only - lots of reseeding - transportation is hard.
Selective cutting
Advantages & Disadvantages of Subsurface mining
Mechanization/tractors/combines
To purify copper from malachite