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Mining
1) How can erosion be controlled?
2) What are environmental costs of these mining methods- placer mining, strip mining,
mountain top removal?
3) Reusing metals from computers, appliances and car batteries is an example of what
conservation measure?
Forestry
4) Name some renewable resources.
5) What is a prescribed burn and what are the costs and benefits?
6) What are the costs and benefits of fire suppression?
Urbanization
7) What factors draw people to urban centers (cities and suburbs) from rural areas?
8) How does urban sprawl increase carbon dioxide emissions?
9) What is a sustainable city? What are the economic benefits? What are the
environmental benefits?
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Use the diagram to answer questions 10-13
10) What phenomenon is shown in this diagram?
11) Compare the air temperature downtown to the temperature in rural areas.
12) What causes the phenomenon shown in the diagram?
13) How could the temperature near the center of the city be reduced?
Use the diagram to answer questions 14-16
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14) Summarize the main idea of this graph in one sentence.
15) How would you explain the difference between the energy consumption of buses and
automobiles?
16) What benefits would result from more people riding light rail?
Agriculture
17) Globally, about 70 percent of our fresh water is used for ____________________.
18) What sort of environment would be most at risk of desertification, and why? What human
practices as well as natural environmental factors that lead to risk for desertification?
19) What is soil degradation?
20) What are benefits of genetically modified (GM) crops and food?
21) What is sustainable agriculture? What are some of the characteristics and strengths of
sustainable agriculture?
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22) You go to the store to buy some milk. You have a choice between buying a gallon of
nonorganic milk from a generic producer with national distribution, or buying a gallon of
organic milk from a small farm ten miles away. The generic milk is half the price of the
local milk. What are the benefits and cost of each choice? What would you choose?
23) A farmer practicing ____________________ might use biological controls, some
pesticides, and crop rotation to control harmful insects.
24) In the twentieth century, a single variety of banana, the Cavendish, became the
dominant commercial banana, and was planted in most of the banana-growing regions
of the world. In the early twenty-first century, the Cavendish began to suffer from a
fungal blight that has the potential to wipe out many major banana-growing operations.
Scientists are looking for resistant genes from other types of banana, but many
subspecies of banana disappeared when Cavendish monocultures became dominant.
This situation illustrates the importance of maintaining ____________________.
Water Usage
25) What is the purpose of the Clean Water Act?
26) What is the energy source that drives the water cycle?
27) How can water be conserved at home-household and yard?
28) Where is Earth’s fresh water mostly found?
29) What is point source pollution? What is non-point source pollution? Give 2 examples of
each.
Mrs. Flake