Review: Chapter 8 Vocabulary - Sustaining Biodiversity

Old-Growth Forest

• A forest resulting from secondary ecological succession after human activities or natural disasters

• Carefully controlled and planned fires that remove flammable underbrush within high-risk forest areas

• A primary forest that has not been seriously disturbed by human activities or natural disasters for over 200 years or more.

• The temporary or permanent removal of large expanses of forests for agriculture, settlements, or other human uses.

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Second-Growth Forest

• A forest resulting from secondary ecological succession after human activities or natural disasters

• Carefully controlled and planned fires that remove flammable underbrush within high-risk forest areas

• A primary forest that has not been seriously disturbed by human activities or natural disasters for over 200 years or more.

• The temporary or permanent removal of large expanses of forests for agriculture, settlements, or other human uses.

Deforestation

• A forest resulting from secondary ecological succession after human activities or natural disasters

• Carefully controlled and planned fires that remove flammable underbrush within high-risk forest areas

• A primary forest that has not been seriously disturbed by human activities or natural disasters for over 200 years or more.

• The temporary or permanent removal of large expanses of forests for agriculture, settlements, or other human uses.

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Prescribed Burn

• A forest resulting from secondary ecological succession after human activities or natural disasters

• Carefully controlled and planned fires that remove flammable underbrush within high-risk forest areas

• A primary forest that has not been seriously disturbed by human activities or natural disasters for over 200 years or more.

• The temporary or permanent removal of large expanses of forests for agriculture, settlements, or other human uses.

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Rangeland

• Designated places essentially undisturbed by humans and protected by law from activities that would alter their ecology

• Unfenced and unmanaged grasslands that supply forage for grazing and browsing animals

• Occurs when to many animals graze in an area for too long, damaging grasses and exceeding the areas carrying capacity

• Managed grasslands that are fenced in and often planted with domesticated grasses providing forage for livestock

Tags

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Pastures

• Designated places essentially undisturbed by humans and protected by law from activities that would alter their ecology

• Unfenced and unmanaged grasslands that supply forage for grazing and browsing animals

• Occurs when to many animals graze in an area for too long, damaging grasses and exceeding the areas carrying capacity

• Managed grasslands that are fenced in and often planted with domesticated grasses providing forage for livestock

Tags

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Overgrazing

• Designated places essentially undisturbed by humans and protected by law from activities that would alter their ecology

• Unfenced and unmanaged grasslands that supply forage for grazing and browsing animals

• Occurs when to many animals graze in an area for too long, damaging grasses and exceeding the areas carrying capacity

• Managed grasslands that are fenced in and often planted with domesticated grasses providing forage for livestock

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Wilderness Areas

• Designated places essentially undisturbed by humans and protected by law from activities that would alter their ecology

• Unfenced and unmanaged grasslands that supply forage for grazing and browsing animals

• Occurs when to many animals graze in an area for too long, damaging grasses and exceeding the areas carrying capacity

• Managed grasslands that are fenced in and often planted with domesticated grasses providing forage for livestock

Biodiversity Hotspot

• Areas threatened by human activities that are currently rich with endangered species found nowhere else in the world

• A defined area of ocean needed to sustain an average person based on the weight of fish they consume

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

• A law designed to protect endangered or threatened species

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Fishery

• Areas threatened by human activities that are currently rich with endangered species found nowhere else in the world

• A defined area of ocean needed to sustain an average person based on the weight of fish they consume

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

• A law designed to protect endangered or threatened species

Tags

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