AP Unit 5

The cumulative area of biologically productive land and water required to provide raw materials a person or population consumes is called?

• Aquaculture

• Ecological Footprint

• Sustainable yield

• Perennial crops

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The harvest of a specific self renewing natural resource is called?

• perennial crops

• flood irrigation

• Sustainable yield

• Salinization

The use of multiple techniques in combination to achieve long term suppression of pests is called?

• GMOs

• IPM

• Integrated Pest Management

• Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Agriculture that does not involve tilling the soil is called?

• Slash-and-Burn farming

• Terracing

• Aquaculture

• No till agriculture

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The cultivation of of aquatic organisms for food in controlled organisms is called?

• Aquaculture

• Ogallala Aquifer

• Perennial crops

• Ores

Which of the following is an example of a solution to the tragedy of the commons?

• Improving literacy among urban populations

• Inventing stronger antibiotics

• Raising taxes for large corporations

• Passing laws to prevent overharvesting

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

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What do we mean when we refer to "commons" in environmental science?

• shared values

• shared resources

• shared personalities

• shared classes

What is overfishing?

• The removal of a bad fish from an environment?

• The removal of a dead fish from a body of water.

• The over-breeding of fish.

• The removal of a fish species from a body of water at rate faster than the species can repopulate.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

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What is one negative consequence of overfishing?

• Fish can grow two heads.

• Fish species can either become depleted or very underpopulated in that given area.

• Fish species can adapt in order to escape the fisherman.

• Fish species will move to a new environment in order to escape fishermen.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

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If the total number of species decline from 700 to 200, what can be said about the biodiversity?

• Biodiversity would not change because extinction has been eliminated.

• Biodiversity is increasing.

• Biodiversity is decreasing.

• Biodiversity is constant and stable.

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