NREM 120 FINAL EXAM Questions with Verified Answers.
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NREM 120 FINAL EXAM Questions with Verified
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What is a key feature of ecocentric ethics? - ANS humans should work with, not
against, nature
Costs passed on to a society are called - ANS externalities
What is the key tenet of fronteir ethics? - ANS plants and animals exist for the sole
use of humans.
John Muir - ANS Ecocentric views for Hetch Hetchy
Conservation mechanisms and strategies include - ANS tax breaks, purchased
easments, Conservation Reserve Program
Garrett Hardin - ANS AUthor of the "Tragedy of the Commons"
Renewable Resources - ANS Freshwater
"The limits to Growth - ANS The study conducted during the 1970s that pioneered
computer modeling for natural resources and the impact of human demands, and
also offered some rather dire predictions concerning the carrying capacity of the
earth
Aldo Leopold - ANS Humans are a part of earth community that includes all living
and non-living creatures.
Genuine Progress Indicator - ANS Measures the countries economic growth and
weather or not it has improved the health and well being of the people.
Endangered Species Act - ANS Presented and signed by President Nixon
Non-renewable resources - ANS Crude oil, gemstones, coal, hard woods, ect.
US Statistics - ANS Makes up 5% of the worlds population but makes up 30% of the
worlds resource consumption.
Gifford Pinchot - ANS 1st chief of the US Forest Service
Not- Plaugerism - ANS Copying a Data Table from a website, providing a reference
for the source.
Economic Discounting - ANS when you have a supplementry source of something
but still have to buy some of the stuff.
Photosynthesis - ANS Solar Energy =6co2 =6H2O
only 1-2% of Suns energy absorbed by plants.
, N2 - ANS For plants to use it , they require the assistance of nitrogen fixing bacteria
in the soil and in their roots.
Entropy - ANS All systems moving towards maximum disorder.
CO2 - ANS Released into atmosphere when natural gas, coal and oil are burned.
Generalist Species - ANS A species that can adapt quickly and so can live in a
plethora of areas such as the cotton tail rabbit.
Disruption of the Nitrogen Cycle - ANS Live stock ranching, sewage waste,
application of nitrogen based fertalizers to crops.
Carrying Capacity - ANS The number of individuals, living in a given mannar that a
site can support indefinatly.
Pioneer Organism - ANS Lichen after a fire.
Wildlife - ANS Find it clumped together in various places
Tropical Rainforest - ANS Highest amount of rainfall
Estuary - ANS The most biologically productive system.
Tall grass Prairies - ANS Made great crop land because of their deep dense root
systems.
Detritus - ANS Dead things, the wheel begins to turn with dead leaves and logs.
Ecological Niche - ANS the total functional role of an organism in an ecosystem.
Primary consumer - ANS eater of primary producer such as a deer.
Desert and tundra - ANS low precipitation dead land full of specialist species.
Soil is a ... - ANS Renewable resource
Organic farming - ANS Equally if not more profitable than conventional farming.
Accelerated erosion is faster than.. - ANS Geological erosion
Shelterbelts are to >>>>>>>>as terraces are to>>>>>>. - ANS Wind erosion, water
erosion
Average soil errosion rates - ANS 5.6 tons/acre
Ideal soils for plant growth - ANS 50% pores to 50% solids.
Soil rich in organic matter is - ANS good water retainer, good nutrient retainer, well
aerated.
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