APES Unit 5 Review

If you need to improve the quality of soil for any reason, it is said that you need to _ the soil.

• amend

• salinate

• waterlog

• fertilize with nitrogen only

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

This image is an example of

• genetically modified organisms

• CAFOs

• free range grazing

• the pesticide treadmill

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Aquaculture...

• is completely unsustainable

• is a form of irrigation

• is also known as fish farming

• creates massive amounts of soil erosion

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

When nutrients end up in a body of water, causing growth to explode, it's known as

• biomagnification

• eutrophication

• the pesticide treadmill

• runoff

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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A method of forestry in which machines drive in, cut down many trees at one time, and then leave.

• clearcutting

• slash and burn

• drip irrigation

• surface mining

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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If you use lots of fossil fuels and pay no attention to your environmental impacts, then you probably....

• have a high ecological footprint

• have a low ecological footprint

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

The abbreviation for methods used to reduce the need for pesticides. The goal of this is NOT to eradicate the pest species, but rather, to keep the species under control.

• IPM

• CAFO

• TOC

• GMO

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Ogallala is

• a word that means "to look oddly at"

• the largest drip irrigation system in North America

• an aquifer

• what happens when salt is concentrated in the soil

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

When genes of choice are added to an organism to make it do something it could not before, the organism is known as being...

• overburdened

• sustainable

• artificially selected

• genetically modified

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When a tree falls, it's called

• timber

• lumber

• slash and burn

• subsurface mining