Environmental Science Ch. 8 Vocabulary

Uncut or regenerated forest that has not been seriously disturbed by human activities or natural disasters for 200 years or more

• Old-growth Forest

• buffer zone

• fishery

Area of ocean needed to sustain the fish consumption of an average person, nation, or the world, based on the weight of fish they consume annually

• Deforestation

• Fishprint

• Wilderness Area

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Deliberately set, controlled small fire that removes flammable small trees and underbrush in the highest-risk forest areas

• buffer zone

• Overgrazing

• Prescribed Burns

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

The temporary or permanent removal of large expanses of forest for agriculture, settlements, or other uses

• rangeland

• Deforestation

• Biodiversity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Arrangement in which a government or private conservation organization pays a government or private landowner in another nation for agreeing to preserve natural resources

• Pasture

• Fishery

• Conservation Concession

Unfenced grasslands in temperate and tropical climates that supplies forage for grazing and browsing animals

• Ocean

• Rangeland

• Polar Region

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A managed forest containing only one or two species of trees that are all of the same age

• prescribed burn

• tree plantation

• deforestation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Scientific approach that focuses on establishing and maintaining new habitats to conserve species diversity in places where people live, work, or play

• Reconciliation Ecology

• Ecological Restoration

• Buffer Zone

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

Fenced in field for grazing of livestock

• Pasture

• lake

• city

A forest that has regrown after a primary forest has been cut down or disturbed

• secondary-growth forest

• reconcilation ecology

• wilderness area

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3