AP Environmental - Chapter 10

What is the principle of multiple use?

• Renewable resources should not be harvested faster then they are replenished.

• Land should be used simultaneously for a variety of uses.

The tendency of a shared, limited resource to become depleted because people act from self-interest for short-term gain.

• Maximum Sustainable Yield.

• Externalities.

• Resource Conservation Ethic.

• Tragedy of the Commons.

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The cost or benefit of a good or service that is not included in the purchase price of that good or service.

• Externality.

• Maximum Sustainable Yield.

• Resource Conservation Ethic.

• Rangeland.

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Clear Cutting: The method of harvesting trees that involves the removal of single trees or a relatively small number of trees from among many in a forest.

• True

• False

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National Wildlife Refuge:

• A federal public land managed for the primary purpose of protecting wildlife.

• A federal public land managed for the primary purpose of protecting wildlife.

• A 1969 U.S. federal act that mandates an environmental assessment of all projects involving federal money or federal permits.

• A plan that outlines how a developer will address concerns raised by a project's impact on the environment.

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Environmental Mitigation Plan:

• A federal public land managed for the primary purpose of protecting wildlife.

• An area set aside with the intent of preserving a large tract of intact ecosystem or a landscape.

• A 1969 U.S. federal act that mandates an environmental assessment of all projects involving federal money or federal permits.

• A plan that outlines how a developer will address concerns raised by a project's impact on the environment.

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National Environmental Policy Act:

• A federal public land managed for the primary purpose of protecting wildlife.

• An area set aside with the intent of preserving a large tract of intact ecosystem or a landscape.

• A plan that outlines how a developer will address concerns raised by a project's impact on the environment.

• A 1969 U.S. federal act that mandates an environmental assessment of all projects involving federal money or federal permits.

National Wilderness Area:

• A federal public land managed for the primary purpose of protecting wildlife.

• A 1969 U.S. federal act that mandates an environmental assessment of all projects involving federal money or federal permits.

• An area set aside with the intent of preserving a large tract of intact ecosystem or a landscape.

• A plan that outlines how a developer will address concerns raised by a project's impact on the environment.

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Most of the US population lives in which areas?

• Rural.

• Urban.

• Suburban.

Urbanized areas that spread into rural areas, removing clear boundaries between the two.

• Urban Sprawl.

• Urban Blight.

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