Lesson 8 Test Review

Areas that are rich in highly endangered endemic species (species found nowhere else) and are also threatened by human activity.

• Biodiversity hotspot

• Biosphere reserves

• Buffer zone

• Wilderness Area

Area that contains a strictly protected core ecosystem surrounded by a buffer zone where local people can extract resources sustainably.

• Biodiversity hotspot

• Biosphere reserves

• Buffer zone

• Wilderness Area

Strictly protecting the inner core of a reserve as well as establishing another, outer zone in which local people can extract resources sustainably.

• Biodiversity hotspot

• Biosphere reserves

• Buffer zone

• Wilderness Area

Designated areas undisturbed by humans, and they are protected by law from activities that would alter their ecology.

• Biodiversity hotspot

• Biosphere reserves

• Buffer zone

• Wilderness Area

Governments or organizations that pay governments or landowners in other nations to preserve their land’s natural resources for a set amount of time.

• Conservation Concession

• Debt-for-nature swap

• Prescribed Burn

• Surface Fire

Financial transactions from participating countries act as custodians of protected forest reserves in return for foreign aid or debt relief.

• Conservation Concession

• Debt-for-nature swap

• Prescribed Burn

• Surface Fire

Carefully planned and controlled fires to remove flammable small trees and underbrush within the highest risk forest areas.

• Conservation Concession

• Debt-for-nature swap

• Prescribed Burn

• Surface Fire

A concentration of an aquatic species suitable for commercial harvesting in an ocean area or inland body of water.

• Fishery

• Pasture

• Rangeland

• Wilderness Area

Managed grasslands or fenced meadows that are often planted with domesticated grasses or other forage crops such as alfalfa and clover.

• Fishery

• Pasture

• Rangeland

• Wilderness Area

Unfenced grasslands in temperate and tropical climates that supply forage, or vegetation for grazing and browsing animals.

• Fishery

• Pasture

• Rangeland

• Wilderness Area