Unit 5 Land and Water Use

What are considered "the commons"

• Common house hold items like knifes, spoons, and forks.

• A renewable resource owned by no one and available for use by anyone at little or no charge

• A field where college students can sit outside in between classes

Which of these is not an example of a commons?

• The air

• The ocean

• Privately owned farms

Sustainability

• The process of maintaining resources so they are not depleted or permanently damaged.

• The ability to read minds

• The ability to save resources for years and years

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Unsustainable

• When resources can never be replenished again.

• When resources are used or depleted faster than they can be replenished.

• When you are not mentally stable.

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Is a calculated impact of a person on the

environment, expressed as the amount of land

required to sustain their use of natural resources.

• Sustainability

• Ecology

• Ecological Footprint

• Tragedy of the Commons

When people use a shared resource and

cause the resource to be depleted or

damaged is called:

• Sustainability

• Environmental Science

• Developed Country

• Tragedy of the Commons

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Indirect costs to a third party

• negative externality

• positive externality

• tragedy of the commons

• deforestation

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maximum amount of a renewable resource that can be harvested without compromising the future availability of that resource

• human nature

• maximum sustained yield

• unsustainable

• positive externality

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check all that apply: What are some ways we can encourage maximum sustainable yield and avoid tragedy of the commons?

• education

• making all land public

• laws and regulations

• privatizing the resource

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Check all of the following that would be considered sustainable forestry.

• selective - cutting over clear-cutting on slopes

• laws and regulations

• reduce, reuse, recycle

• prescribed burns

• clear-cutting lots of land in a tropical rainforest

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