WorksheetsAP Environmental Science Unit 5 B
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 16mins
What does CAFO stand for?
Concentrated Animal Feedlot Organization
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
Canadian Alliance of Franchise Operators
Confined Animal Feeding Operation
What is the most common use of land in the United states?
Land for growing crops
Land for housing
Rangelands
Land used for urban development
Which of the following is NOT an environmental issue associated with free-range grazing of cattle?
Uses more fossil fuel energy
Overgrazing
Stream bank erosion
Vulnerability to fires
Removal of strips of soil and rock to expose ore is known as
Open-pit mining
Placer mining
Mountaintop removal mining
Strip mining
The following statements are true of subsurface mining except
Resources are more than 100m below surface
Much more expensive
Uses a large visible pit or hole
Used for resources such as coal, diamonds, gold
Looking for minerals and metals in river sediments is known as
Open-pit mining
Placer mining
Mountaintop removal mining
Strip mining
What are tailings?
The known quantity of a resource
The residue of something, especially ore
Concentrated accumulations of minerals
Elements that can conduct electricity, heat, etc.
What is a Fishery?
A place that grows fish
A business that catches/sells fish
Population of harvestable fish within a region
A pond
When fisheries are depleted there is no incentive to protect or replenish fish stocks since the open ocean doesn't belong to any nations. This is an example of
tragedy of the commons
pisciculture
why fish from farms are healthier for humans
Factory fishing
What is a TED? (In environmental science)
Ted talk
Technology, Entertainment, Design
Total Environmental Depletion
Turtle Exclusion Device
An Exurb is
similar to a suburb but unconnected to a central city
An area surrounding a metropolitan center
An abandoned suburb
A metropolitan center
Which of the following is an example of the Smart Growth 10 principles?
Develop more interstate highway systems
Create zoning laws
Create mixed land uses
Increase use of fossil fuels
When talking about the causes of Urban Sprawl, gentrification was used as an antonym for
Living costs
Advent of the automobile and development of highways
Laws and policies
Urban blight
Raising marine organisms in open ocean enclosures or seawater tanks/ponds is known as
Mariculture
Monoculture
Fisheries
Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture is best represented by which of the following?
A monoculture farming operation
A polyculture farm where organisms of the same tropic level are raised
A polyculture fish farm where fish of different trophic levels are raised
A monoculture open ocean enclosure
In Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture waste nutrients from organisms of higher trophic levels
are used to feed organisms of lower levels
are used in agriculture as fertilizer
are not used and disposed of in the environment
are used as fish food sold at petsmart
Rapid runoff following a heavy rainfall may cause flooding downstream from urban areas. Which urban design strategy will most likely slow water runoff though an urban area and decrease the risk of downstream flooding?
Preserve open areas with intact vegetation.
Widen concrete streets and sidewalks
Use large flat roofs in new construction
Add large drainage pipes near parking lots
Which of the following is the best illustration of the pesticide treadmill?
Sequence of several pesticides used by farmers to maximize effectiveness
Increased use of pesticides to eradicate genetically resistant pests
Biomagnification of pesticides in the fatty tissue of primary consumers
Process that is used to manufacture pesticides
Switching from customary large-scale agricultural practices to which of the following is most likely to reduce the exposure of farmworkers and nearby residents to toxic chemicals?
No-till cultivation
Integrated pest management
Contour plowing
Crop dusting
Which of the following problems is best addressed with contour plowing?
Denitrification
Eutrophication
The pesticide treadmill
Soil erosion
Which of the following is likely to minimize soil erosion?
High-yield crops
No-till agriculture
Herbicide use
Annual plowing
