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UNIT 5: Land & Water Use Exam

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  • What is the best reason to purchase organic foods?
    They are better for your health & environment
    They are grown with pesticides
    They have been GM to grow faster
    They use chemicals for growth
  • The BLM focuses on rangeland health of the ecosystem. What does BLM stand for?
    Bureau of land miners
    Bureau of Land Management
    Bureau of Land memoirs
    Bureau of long mining
  • What famous person led to the banning of DDT in 1972?
    Rachel Carson
    Gregor Mendel
    Charles Darwin
    James Watson
  • This type of forest cutting involves cutting out of trees that are mature & defective only
    Sustainable cutting
    Shelterwood cutting
    Clear Cutting
    Selective cutting
  • This planting method uses a single species variety only.
    Furrow Cropping
    spray cropping
    monocropping
    Drip cropping
  • This type of pesticide targets plant species that compete with plants
    Fungicides
    Pesticides
    Insecticides
    Herbicides
  • This type of forest cutting involves managment that protects waterways, pesticide use and slows erosion.
    selective cutting
    Shelterwood cutting
    clear cutting
    Sustainable cutting
  • This irrigation pumps water from a well into an apparatus with a series of spray nozzles that spray water across the field.
    Flood irrigation
    furrow irrigation
    Spray irrigation
    drip irrigation
  • This irrigation uses a slow dripping hose that is buried beneath the soil.
    spray irrigation
    furrow irrigation
    flood irrigation
    drip irrigation
  • What is a benefit of aquaculture?
    Densitiy of animals increase disease
    Can be transmitted to wild fish
    Little fuel & small areas
    waste is pumped into the river
  • What is a con of Genetically Modified Foods (GMF)?
    Can alter plants to be more healthy
    Can cause allergic reactions
    Reduces pesticide use
    Greater yield of food
  • What action best exemplifies the Tragedy of the commons
    Resources shared by individuals are regulated
    developing recycling programs to help reduce waste
    Farmers sharing fertile land to help with crops
    Large logging operations in TRF is economic gain only
  • What is an advantage to using synthetic fertilizers instead of organic?
    More targeted macronutirents to the crop
    Remains in the soil longer
    Adds soil texture
    Organic runs off more quickly into the water
  • What is the most sustainable method to eliminate pests?
    Use the pest scaled method
    Integrated Pest Management Method
    To use the cultural contamination method
    To use the Pheromone Method
  • The method if irrigation floods the entire field with water & letting water soak in.
    Drip irrigation
    Spray irrigation
    furrow irrigation
    Flood Irrigation
  • A downfall of using rangelands for farms is.....
    Takes less fossil fuel
    the land is too dry to farm
    They lose their natural biodiversity
    Takes less land from a farmer
  • This pesticide targets species of insects that consume crops
    insecticides
    Herbicides
    fungicides
    Rodenticides
  • Method using a very long main line (miles long) with hundreds or thousands of baited hooks attached by shorter lines (gangions) to catch
    Drift nets
    Long-line fishing
    sonar
    Bottom trawiling
  • The use of modern day farming that changed agriculture forever is known as..
    The Green Revolution
    The Montreal Protocol
    The Environmental Movement
    The Global Perspective
  • Which of the element groups is considered to be fertilizer?
    He,Bi,C
    C,H,O
    Fe,Ni,Ag
    K,N,P
  • What is a downfall of urbanization?
    Less leaching of water in soil - more floods
    Lower taxes
    Homes built close together
    More room for humans to development
  • This type of cutting involves cutting the forest completely down.
    shelterwood cutting
    clear cutting
    selective cutting
    Sustainable cutting
  • What is a risk of using biological control pesticides?
    It lingers in the environment
    It mutates & is no longer effective
    Repeated applications are required
    It attacks other beneficial insects
  • What meat production method allows for small space, max output & multiple cow feeding?
    Organic farming
    Free Range farming
    Concentrated animal feeding operations
    Operation farming
  • The farming of aquatic organisms such as shrimp or seaweeds is called...
    Protoculture
    Aquaculture
    Genoculture
    Phenoculture
  • Which compound is considered to be a synthethic fertilizer?
    Sevin
    Banana Peels
    Manure
    Plant Scraps
  • fishing method where Large, weighted nets are dragged along the ocean floor by one or two boats to catch fish and shellfish
    Gill Neting
    Bottom Trawling
    Purse Seines
    Long-line fishing
  • The farmer digs trenches along crops & fill them with water. What type of irrigation is this?
    Flood irrigation
    Furrow Irrigation
    Spray irrigation
    Drip irrigation
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