Land and Water Use Unit

Tragedy of the Commons

• Using hoses that slowly drip water onto the roots of plants.

• A generic term to describe any herbicide, fungicide, rodenticide, or insecticide.

• A shared resource that no one owns and everyone can use is overexploited and eventually unavailable to all.

• A layer or rock that is filled with water

Answer explanation

This tends to be the result of one person squandering an important resource left over for others.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Clear Cutting

• Using man-made, chemical fertilizers on crops to help them grow better.

• An economically viable way of cutting down all the trees in an area of a forest for human use.

• Turning the land over so you can plant crops.

• Salt in the soil that limits plants growth.

Answer explanation

This is the result of when there's a great amount of trees that are eliminated.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Furrow Irrigation

• Allowing animals to roam free and eat on grassy pastures.

• A chemical that kills unwanted insects.

• Surfaces that do allow water to seep into the ground and replenish aquifer or water plants.

• Building rows between crops and flooding those rows with water.

Answer explanation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Waterlogging

• Salt in the soil that limits plant growth

• When soil gets so flooded with water, and the water then evaporates but the salt is left behind. After many years of this, the land is so salty that most plants can't grow.

• Intentionally starting a fire in a forest to allow the brush and the dead trees to be burned and the larger tree to not be destroyed.

• Planting crops without tilling or churning the soil, before you plant.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Tilling

• Turning the land over so you can plant crops.

• Flooding an entire crop with water.

• Using hoses that slowly drip water onto the roots of plants.

• A chemical that kills unwanted fungi.

Answer explanation

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Herbicides

• A chemical that kills unwanted fungi.

• A chemical that kills unwanted insects.

• A chemical that kills unwanted rodents such as mice and rats.

• A chemical that kills unwanted plants.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Insecticides

• A chemical that kills unwanted plants.

• A chemical that kills unwanted rodents such as mice and rats.

• A chemical that kills unwanted insects.

• A chemical that kills unwanted fungi.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Rodenticides

• A chemical that kills unwanted insects.

• A chemical that kills unwanted rodents such as mice and rats.

• A chemical that kills unwanted plants.

• A chemical that kills unwanted fungi.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Fungicides

• A chemical that kills unwanted insects.

• A chemical that kills unwanted plants.

• A chemical that kills unwanted rodents such as mice and rats.

• A chemical that kills unwanted fungi.

Slash-and-burn farming-

• An agricultural method for taking wild land such as a forest, and clearing it to grow crops. Usually this method involves slashing (cutting down) and burning the plants that were found there and planting a crop.

• The rock and soil found above a mine that must be removed to get to the mineral resource.

• Intentionally starting a fire in a forest to allow the brush and dead trees to be burned and the larger to not be destroyed.

• The ability of water to move through the soil and perhaps into an aquifer.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5