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APES Unit 5 (5.1-5.17) Questions and Answers Tragedy of the Commons the tendency of a shared, limited resource to become depleted because people act from self-interest for short-term gain Commons area used by everyone that isn't regulated (ocean, air, etc) Ways to solve the TOC Re...

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APES Unit 5 (5.1-5.17) Questions and
Answers
Tragedy of the Commons - answer the tendency of a shared, limited resource to
become depleted because people act from self-interest for short-term gain

Commons - answer area used by everyone that isn't regulated (ocean, air, etc)

Ways to solve the TOC - answer Regulate use with permits and quotas
Selective cutting of trees
Ensure compliance with fees and taxes
Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act

Externalities - answer the cost or benefit of a good or service that is not included in
the purchase price of that good or service

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) - answer regulates grazing, mining, timber
harvesting, and recreation

U.S. National Forest Service (USFS) - answer regulates timber harvesting, grazing,
and recreation

National Park Service (NPS) - answer regulations recreation and conservation

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) - answer regulates conservation, hunting, and
recreation

Rangelands - answer dry, open grassland

Forests - answer land dominated by trees and other woody vegetation and
sometimes used for commercial logging

Ecological Services of Forests - answer serves as a habitat, aids in soil formation,
moderates local climate, serves as a food source, removes air/water pollutants,
increases albedo of earth, has a role in biogeochemical cycles

Economic Benefits provided by Forests - answer trees for raw materials, grazing for
livestock, agricultural land, ecotourism, potential medicine

Slash and Burn - answer cutting trees and burning them releases GHGs

Impacts of Clearcutting on Terrestrial Environments - answer loss of biodiversity,
easier access for invasive species, no obstruction to water or wind

, Impacts of Clearcutting on Aquatic Environments - answer less infiltration of
groundwater, excessive nutrients carried by runoff, increase in turbidity, eutrophication

National Parks - answer managed for scientific, educational, aesthetic, and
recreational use

National Wildlife Refuge - answer federal public land managed for the primary
purpose of protecting wildlife

National Wilderness Area - answer an area set aside with the intent of preserving a
large tract of intact ecosystem or landscape

National Environmental Policy Act - answer 1909 U.S. Federal act that mandates an
environmental assessment of all projects involving federal money or federal permits

Environmental Impact Statement - answer a document outlining the scope and
purpose of a development project describing the environmental context

Environmental Mitigation Plan - answer outlines how a developer will address
concerns raised by the project's impact

Green Revolution - answer transition from small farms to large industrialized farms

Industrial Agriculture (agribusiness) - answer agriculture that applies the techniques
of mechanization and standardization

Energy Subsidy - answer the fossil fuel energy and human energy input per calorie
of food produced

Monoculture - answer growing a LOT of the same plant on a piece of land

Artificial Pesticides - answer can be customized to maximize yield, but can also
exterminate non-target species

Irrigation - answer different ways of watering crops

GMOs - answer human-directed evolution that selects for traits beneficial to humans
that takes advantage of genetic material of normally-incompatible species, thus creating
new traits in the host species

Arable - answer capable of producing crops

Tilling - answer mixing and breaking up soil to make planting easier

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