UCLA APES PARKS

Which of the following is not a problem typically associated with the act of grazing cattle?

• Soil compaction

• Vegetation loss

• Biodiversity loss

• Erosion

What are common methods of combating overgrazing?

• pasture rotation

• factory feedlots

• feeding cattle an all corn diet

• using smaller meat animals like chickens and pigs

What is the difference between range land and pasture land?

• Range land is fenced off, pasture land is not

• Pasture land is for commercial use, range land is not

• Pasture land is fenced off, range land is not

• Range land is for commercial use, pasture land is not

Which federal organization was created by the wilderness act to maintain wilderness areas?

• The Bureau of American Wildlife

• The Bureau of Land Conservation

• The Bureau of Wilderness Protection

• The Bureau of Land Management

In what year was the wilderness act passed?

• 1962

• 1971

• 1967

• 1964

lands and their natural resources should not be consumed by humans, should remain untouched

• preservation

• remediation

• mitigation

• restoration

_____ is the process of cleaning a contaminated area using mild or nondestructive methods

• Preservation

• Remediation

• Mitigation

• Restoration

____ is replacing a degraded site with a healthy site of equal ecological value somewhere else

• Preservation

• Remediation

• Mitigation

• Restoration

Which of the following is not an example of the tragedy of the commons?

• Exxon Valdez oil spill

• depleting the ogallala aquifer

• commercial extinction of Atlantic cod

• the American dust bowl

____ established the National Park Service, an agency of the US Department of the Interior.

• National Forest Management Act

• National Wild Land Conservation Act

• Federal Land Preservation Act

• National Park Act