Resource Management

VOCABULARY: Able to meet the current demand for a resource without depleting the future supply.       

• Ecosystem Based Management
• Climate Change
• Deforestation
• Sustainable

VOCABULARY: The managing of resource harvesting so that resources are not depleted.

• Sustainable
• Clear Cut
• Seed Tree Cut
• Resource Management

VOCABULARY: Harvesting resources in ways that minimize the impact on the ecosystems that provide them.

• Ecosystem Based  Management
• Maximum Sustainable Yield
• Resource Management
• Climate Change

VOCABULARY: The amount of a resource that can be harvested without reducing the amount of future harvests.

• Resource Management
• Ecosystem Based  Management
• Deforestation
• Maximum Sustainable Yield

According to scientists, what is the major source of climate change?

• Methane from cow farts
• Increasing temperature of the Earth’s core
• Increasing temperature of the Sun
• Human-caused increases in carbon dioxide emissions

Which of the following is a 2015 negotiation between most of the world’s countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

• The Berlin Conference
• The World Health Organization
• The World Emissions Treaty
• Paris Climate Agreement       

The Ecosystem Based Management style of resource management tends to be best for which of the following areas?

• A region’s mineral health
• A region’s economics
• A region’s ecosystem health
• All of the Above

The Maximum Sustainable Yield style of resource management tends to be best for which of the following areas?

• All of the above
• A region’s ecosystem health
• A region’s mineral health       
• A region’s economics

Vocab term: Scientifically testing management approaches and customizing the best method to manage the ecosystem.

• Adaptive management

• ecosystem-based management

• Scientific management

• Maximum management

The science or practice of planting, managing, and caring for forests.

• Forestry
• Silviculture
• Reforestation
• Deforestation