ap environmental science chapter 10 sustaining...
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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
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.