APES/DE Unit 5 Review

Which of the following is NOT an environmental benefit of smart growth?

• reduced flooding

• increased impervious surfaces

• decreased water pollution

• increased open spaces

When people move from a city to the suburbs in response to better jobs or roads being built, we call this movement

• Urban Sprawl

• Suburbanization

• Urban Blight

• Urban Growth Boundaries

After tax revenues in a city decrease, city services decrease. This is called

• Urban Blight

• Economic recession

• Urban Sprawl

• Trickle Down Economics

Which of the following is NOT a technique used in IPM?

• Creation of habitats for predators of pests

• Limited use of Chemical pesticides

• Crop rotation and intercropping strategies

• Excessive Watering to Prevent Accumulation of Pests and Parasites

Degradation of built and social environments in a city center that accelerates migration to suburbs is called ________

• Rural depopulation

• Urban sprawl

• Smart Growth

• Urban blight

NEPA analysis is necessary in __________________

• Private land development

• Federal projects

• State highway construction

• Local zoning changes

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Which of the following is an example of a CAFO?

• A community-supported agriculture (CSA) farm

• A free-range chicken farm

• A small organic farm with 15 cattle

• A chicken farm housing 82,000 laying hens

Which characteristic is NOT an advantage of a multi-crop farm or forest?

• natural resistence to pests or disease

• less use of pesticides and herbicides

• large output of one crop with a quick return on investment

• more integration with the local landscape

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This chemical process can be used to create ethanol from biomass:

• Distillation

• Combustion

• Fermentation

• Hydrolysis

If 10 million kcal of fish is produced in a fish farm per year, how many farms are needed per year for folks needing 2,000 kcal per day?

• 7,300 fish farms

• 73 fish farms

• 0.073 fish farms

• 730,000 fish farms

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