F Semester Exam (D. Hunter) 22-23

Match the following

• infrastructure

• movement of people from rural areas to cities

• overgrazing

• area with a relatively sparse population

• rural

• area with more than 2,500 people and a governing body

• ubaniztion

• built to provide public services

• urban

• poor management of rangeland

Which of the following is true of parks and preserves?

• they are not affected by air and water pollution

• they serve as sources of wood for industries

• they provide limited hunting of designated wildlife

• they provide recreation for people

One benefit of preserving farmland is _​ (a)  

• increased crop production
• increased carbon dioxide production
• increased urban temperatures
• increased urban sprawl

In cities, traffic jams, substandard housing, and pollution can be the result of ​ (a)  

• urban crisis
• urbanization
• urban sprawl
• infrastructure

What can be done to sustain the productivity of rangeland?

• limit herd size

• eliminate invasive plants

• leave the land unused for a time

• all of the above

Heat-islands can affect local​ (a)  

• weather patterns
• water levels
• traffic patterns
• harvest patterns

When forests are not replanted after trees are cut, natural resources ___________.

• increase

• decrease

• regenerate

• remain unchanged

Each U.S. resident uses the ecosystem services provided by roughly _______.

• 1 hectare of land

• 6 hectares of land

• 8 hectares of land

• 12 hectares of land

Match the following

• carbon dioxide

• a greenhouse gas added to the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned

• prevailing winds

• vertical sunlight

• equatorial regions

• trade winds, westerlies, and polar easterlies

• ozone molecules

• decomposed by chlorine atoms

• El Nino

• winds push warm water eastward in the Pacific Ocean

Weather is a region's ​ (a)  

• atmospheric conditions on a given day
• long-term, prevailing atmospheric conditions
• short-term atmospheric conditions
• lack of ocean currents