Land Use quizizz

 Commercially valuable deposits of concentrated minerals that can be harvested and used for raw materials.

• Metals

• Tailings

• overburden

•  ore

Which is not an environmental impact of mining? 

• Methane release

• Increased biodiversity

• PM release

• Acid mine drainage

Shift in agriculture away from small, family operated farms to large industrial scale agribusiness.

• Green revolution

• Agriculture revolution

• Mechanization

•  Sustainable agriculture

Removal of a species or several species from a body of water at such a rate that they can not replenish is called ____________.

• Overfishing

• Sustainable fishing

• aquaculture

• Bottom trawling

.Densely crowded feedlots where animals are fed grain to raise them as quickly as possible.

• CAFOs

• MAFOs

•  meat markets

• farms

The cutting down of all the trees in a given area at once, usually to harvest them for lumber or to clear the land for agriculture.

• sustainable forestry

• clear cutting

• ecological forestry

• Rainforest maintenance

 Most expensive  type of mining - due to higher insurance and healthcare costs of workers, and labor and machinery needed.

• Placer

• Strip

•  subsurface

• Mountaintop removal

Unintentended species caught in fishing nets are called ___________.

• Bycatch

• Aquaculture

• forage fish

• Byproduct

Disadvantages of feedlots include possible water contamination and ___________.

• Overgrazing

• Greenhouse gas release

• decrease in disease

• Inefficient land use

Which is NOT a negative impact of mechanization?

• greenhouse gas emissions

• Soil compaction

•  increased yields

• Topsoil erosion