Environmental Science Unit 4A (Chapters 11, 12, & 13)

Soil, fresh water, wild animals, and timber are examples of

• renewable resources.

• inexhaustible resources.

• nonrenewable resources.

• forest resources.

Maximum sustainable yield, ecosystem-based management, and adaptive management are three approaches to

• poaching.

• overharvesting.

• resource management.

• none of these.

Which of the following logging methods would most likely result in regrowth such as that shown in the picture?

• clear-cutting

• a selection system

• the seed-tree approach

• the shelterwood apprach

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Clear-cutting is a timber harvesting method in which

• trees that provide shelter to seedlings are left uncut.

• only some mature trees in an area are cut.

• only immature tree in an area are cut.

• all of the trees in an area are cut.

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Deforestation has the greatest impact on biodiversity

• on private lands.

• in tropical areas and arid regions.

• in densely populated urban areas.

• on public lands.

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The Healthy Forests Restoration Act

• encourages salvage logging and prescribed burning on national forest land.

• requires that timber companies produce certified wood from national forest land.

• does not require environmental impact statements for logging on national forest land.

• requires adaptive management on national forest land.

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Salvage logging can

• decrease soil erosion.

• decrease commercial logging.

• promote wildfires.

• speed up forest growth.

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The policy of multiple use requires that national forests be managed for

• timber.

• wildlife habitat.

• recreation.

• all of these.

When paper has a Forest Stewardship Council logo on it, the paper is

• made from rainforest wood.

• not made from wood.

• made from sustainably harvested wood.

• recycled.

The organic matter in soil includes.

• minerals.

• living and decomposing organisms.

• living organisms only.

• bedrock.

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