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Page 1: AP Environmental Science Chapter 10 Sustaining …stockdaleapes.wikispaces.com/file/view/APESStudyGuideChapter10.p… · AP Environmental Science Chapter 10 – Sustaining Terrestrial

AP Environmental Science

Chapter 10 – Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity

CASE STUDIES

Pg. 191 Wolves in Yellowstone

Pg. 196 Deforestation & Fuelwood

Pg. 203 Tropical Forest Deforestation

Pg. 208 Kenya’s Green Belt Movement

Pg. 210 Grazing & Urban Development

Pg. 214 GIS Mapping

Pg. 217 Controversy over Wilderness

Protection

IMPORTANT LEGISLATION

Taylor Grazing Act, 1934

Forest Reserve Act, 1891

Multiple Use & Sustained Yield Act, 1960, 68

Federal Land Policy & Management Act, 1976

National Forests Management Act, 1976

Forests & Rangeland Renewable Resources

Planning Act, 1976

Healthy Forests Restoration Act, 2003

CONCEPTS

Human Impacts on Terrestrial

Biodiversity

Managing and Sustaining Forests

Deforestation

US Resource Management Practices

Fire Ecology

Dangers of Tropical Deforestation

Managing & Sustaining Grasslands

US National Parks, Reserves, and

Wilderness Areas

Community-Based Conservation

Ecological Restoration

VOCABULARY

Fuelwood Restoration

Old-growth forest Rehabilitation

Second-growth forest Replacement

Tree farm Conservationist

Deforestation

Habitat loss

Selective cutting

Clear cutting

Strip cutting

Forest fires

Ground fires

Smokey the Bear

Prescribed fires

Endangered species

Overgrazing

Riparian zones

National parks

Wilderness areas

Habitat corridors

Buffer zones

Community-based conservation

GIS Mapping

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STUDY QUESTIONS

1. List five types of public lands in the United States.

2. Distinguish between old-growth and second-growth forests and give one example of each.

3. Distinguish between a second-growth forest and a tree farm.

4. List five reasons why forests are commercially important.

5. List five reasons forests are ecologically important.

6. Summarize the impact of deforestation on some of the world's indigenous cultures.

7. List three factors underlying causes of tropical deforestation.

8. List six human activities which actually destroy the tropical forests.

9. Evaluate Japan's environmental track record.

10. Summarize the fuel wood crisis.

11. List four types of tree harvesting, indicating which type of management they are most likely to

be used for.

12. Distinguish among surface fires, crown fires, and ground fires.

13. Summarize threats to forests from fires, pathogens, and air pollution and strategies for dealing

with each threat.

14. List eight ways to move toward sustainable forestry management.

15. List at least five ways to reform federal forest management.

16. List three ways to reduce demand for wood products.

17. Explain the roles that straw and kenaf can play in reducing demand for wood.

18. List ways to help reduce the interlocking problems of tropical deforestation and the fuel wood

crisis.

19. Address scientific data collection, economic strategies, policy-making strategies, cultural

strategies, and strategies to reduce demand for fuel wood.

20. Summarize Costa Rica's efforts to protect and restore forests.

21. Describe one case where individual actions made a difference in helping to reduce forest

destruction.

22. Define wilderness. Describe a biosphere reserve.