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WorksheetsAP Environmental - Chapter 10
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is the principle of multiple use?
Renewable resources should not be harvested faster then they are replenished.
Land should be used simultaneously for a variety of uses.
The tendency of a shared, limited resource to become depleted because people act from self-interest for short-term gain.
Maximum Sustainable Yield.
Externalities.
Resource Conservation Ethic.
Tragedy of the Commons.
The cost or benefit of a good or service that is not included in the purchase price of that good or service.
Externality.
Maximum Sustainable Yield.
Resource Conservation Ethic.
Rangeland.
Clear Cutting: The method of harvesting trees that involves the removal of single trees or a relatively small number of trees from among many in a forest.
True
False
National Wildlife Refuge:
A federal public land managed for the primary purpose of protecting wildlife.
A federal public land managed for the primary purpose of protecting wildlife.
A 1969 U.S. federal act that mandates an environmental assessment of all projects involving federal money or federal permits.
A plan that outlines how a developer will address concerns raised by a project's impact on the environment.
Environmental Mitigation Plan:
A federal public land managed for the primary purpose of protecting wildlife.
An area set aside with the intent of preserving a large tract of intact ecosystem or a landscape.
A 1969 U.S. federal act that mandates an environmental assessment of all projects involving federal money or federal permits.
A plan that outlines how a developer will address concerns raised by a project's impact on the environment.
National Environmental Policy Act:
A federal public land managed for the primary purpose of protecting wildlife.
An area set aside with the intent of preserving a large tract of intact ecosystem or a landscape.
A plan that outlines how a developer will address concerns raised by a project's impact on the environment.
A 1969 U.S. federal act that mandates an environmental assessment of all projects involving federal money or federal permits.
National Wilderness Area:
A federal public land managed for the primary purpose of protecting wildlife.
A 1969 U.S. federal act that mandates an environmental assessment of all projects involving federal money or federal permits.
An area set aside with the intent of preserving a large tract of intact ecosystem or a landscape.
A plan that outlines how a developer will address concerns raised by a project's impact on the environment.
Most of the US population lives in which areas?
Rural.
Urban.
Suburban.
Urbanized areas that spread into rural areas, removing clear boundaries between the two.
Urban Sprawl.
Urban Blight.
Highway Trust Fund: A U.S. federal fund that pays for the construction and maintenance of roads and highways.
False.
True.
Multi-Use Zoning:
A zoning classification that allows retail and high-density residential development to coexist in the same area.
A planning tool used to separate industry and business from residential neighborhoods.
A set of principles for community planning that focuses on strategies to encourage the development of sustainable, healthy communities.
Highway Trust Fund.
Zoning.
Smart Growth.
Induced Demand.
A person or organization with an interest in a particular place or issue.
Stakeholder.
Smart Growth.
Sense of Place.
Transit-Oriented Development.
The feeling that an area has distinct and meaningful character.
Urban Blight.
Induced Demand.
Sense of place.
Urban Sprawl.
Transit-Oriented Development:
A component of smart growth.
Development that attempts to focus dense residential and retail development around stops for public transportation, a component of smart growth.
Development that attempts to focus suburban areas around stops for public transportation, a component of smart growth.
Development that attempts to focus exurban areas around stops for public transportation, a component of smart growth.
Induced Demand:
The phenomenon in which decrease in the supply of a good causes demand to grow.
The phenomenon in which increase in the supply of every single good causes demand to grow.
The phenomenon that causes demand to grow, just because.
The phenomenon in which increase in the supply of a good causes demand to grow.
How is the MSY represented in a graph?
S Curve.
J Curve.
Bell Shaped Curve.
Linear Curve.
What is the major cause of Extinctions?
Environmental Change.
Deforestation.
Bottleneck Effect.
No food supply.
Development that fills in vacant lots within existing communities.
Unfill.
Refill.
Infill.
Fulfill.
