APES Unit 5 Test Part 1 Diana

The tragedy of the commons is best demonstrated through which of the following examples?

• clear-cutting on logging company land

• atmospheric pollution from a power plant

• overgrazing causing soil erosion on a farmers land

• a mining operation causing acid drainage on private property

• overhunting on commercial property

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Which of the following strategies would help ensure that we can provide food for a growing human population?

• Increase ethanol production in industrialized nations

• encourage parents to have more offspring to increase available farm labor

• increase palm oil production in poor countries

• reduce the amount of meat consumption worldwide

• reduce the production of nitrogen fertilizers

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Human activities, such as agriculture, can require altering the land.

Question 1: Identify an environmental problem associated with large-scale intensive agriculture on soil.

Question 2: Identify a potential sustainable agricultural practice to reduce the impact of large-scale intensive agriculture on soils.

Question 3: Describe a drawback of using sustainable agricultural practices to produce crops

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Mineral resources are extracted from the earth by mining ore and separating it from the residual rock.

Question 1: Identify one type of mining that is used to extract natural resources from the earth.

Figure 1 shows the amount of sediment in runoff in undisturbed areas and in areas where mining has disturbed the vegetation in the riparian zone of a stream in Brazil.

Question 2: Identify the day of the study when the largest amount of sediment was present in runoff.

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