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UNIT 5: Land & Water Use Exam

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