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CH 6-9 Flashcards

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Deforestation

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The removal of trees or forest for human developement.

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Africa

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The area with the highest rate of forest loss.

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Closed Canopy Forest

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Forest where trees’ crowns cover most of the ground.

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Old Growth Forests

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Forests that have been undisturbed by humans.

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Pulpwood

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Fastest growing forest product.

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6
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Agriculture

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The main reason for deforestation in Western Africa and Southeast Asia.

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Debt for Nature Swaps

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When a conservation group buys a country’s debt in exchange for the country restoring and protecting natural areas.

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Monoculture Forestry

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Single species, single use intensive cropping.

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Clear Cutting

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Cutting down all the trees in an area.

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Shelterwood Harvesting

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Mature trees are removed in a series of two or more cuts.

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Strip Cutting

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All trees in a narrow pathway are cleared, then reseeded by surrounding trees.

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Selective Cutting

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Only a small percentage of mature trees are cut in 10-20 year rotation.

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Desertification

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The expansion of deserts.

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Pastoralists

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People who live by herding animals.

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15
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Cow Welfare

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Government loses $47 million annually leasing land for grazing.

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Rotational Grazing

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Confining animals to a small area for a short time, then moving to a new area (similar to animals in nature).

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African Sahel

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Environmentally fragile area south of the Sahara Desert.

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Yellowstone

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1st national park on earth.

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Banff National Park

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1st national park in Canada, est. 1887.

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Mt. Mitchell

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Tallest mountain in the Appalachians; tree tops killed by acid rain.

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Acadia National Park

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Park in Maine; summer air 50% above safe level.

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Corridors

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Walkways built over highways for animals.

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Ecotourism

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A combination of adventure travel and nature appreciation in wild places.

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Coral Reefs

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Most threatened marine ecosystem.

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Poaching

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Large animal problem in Africa.

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Transgenic Crops/GMOs

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Crops that have undergone gene splicing through genetic engineering.

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Frankenstein Foods

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What Europeans call US genetically altered foods.

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28
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Poverty

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The greatest threat to food security.

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29
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Food Security

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The ability to obtain food on a day-to-day basis.

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30
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Meat

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A food that is expensive to produce, making it a good indicator of wealth.

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India

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The largest hungry nation on earth.

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Central Africa

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Region with highest percent of hungry people.

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Nigeria

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Country where home gardens on 2% of cropland produce 50% of food families eat.

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Famine

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Large scale food shortages, massive starvation, social disruptions, economic chaos.

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Politics, Environmental Conditions, Economics

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Three reasons why the UN reports 60 million people in 30 nations needed emergency food.

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Political oppression and armed conflict

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Two factors almost always at the root of a famine.

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Free press

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No democratic with one has ever had a major famine.

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Malnourishment

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A nutritional imbalance caused by improper diet.

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Anemia

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Most common nutritional problem in the world. Occurs due to low iron levels.

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Vitamin A Deficiency

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Nutritional problem causing 350,000 to go blind and 1 million to die annually. Affects 100-140 million children at any given time.

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Kwashiorkor

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Illness characterized by swollen belly, lack of protein, reddish orange hair.

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Marasmus

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Greek for “to waste away”; child shrivels up like old starving person.

43
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International Financial Speculation & Biofuel Production

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Two new causes for world hunger.

44
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Heavy subsidies

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Government support for growing and processing crops for biofuels. Without them, biofuels are not viable.

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Intensive subsistence agriculture

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Growing rice in China; using land to the maximum and just barely getting by.

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Extensive subsistence agriculture

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Lapps herding reindeer; using the natural bounty of the land to just barely get by.

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Intensive commercial agriculture

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A Midwestern feedlot; using land to maximum capacity to make money.

48
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Extensive commercial agriculture

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Wheat farming on the Great Plains, Pampas, Ukraine; using what grows naturally to make money.

49
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E-COLI 0157-H7

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Disease which 25% of all US cattle have. It only takes 2 or 3 cells to kill a person.

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Locavore

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A person who consumers locally produced food.

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Tragedy of the Commons

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What happens when a resource is not regulated, people take until the resource is gone.

52
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Pedology

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The study of soils.

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Soil profile

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A cross section of soil.

54
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Soil horizon

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A layer in the soil profile.

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Pedon

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1 to 10 sq meter cross section of soil from the surface to the bedrock.

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Humus

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A mixture of decomposed organic materials, dark in color.

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Leaching

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Organic water-soluble particles are carried by water to lower level in the soil profile.

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Eluviation

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Non-water-soluble particles are carried by water to a lower level in the soil profile.

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7th approximation system

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US Soil Conservation Service’s soil classification system

60
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Podzolization

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Soil formation in cool, wet areas, slow bacterial decay, layer of pine needles and leaves on the surface, forms and acid soil, leaching and eluviation present.

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Calcification

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Soil formation in dry land, rich in humus, little leaching and eluviation, great farmland

62
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Laterization

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Soil formation in hot, wet areas, heavily leached and eluviated, infertile soil, porous, red due to oxidation of iron in the soil.

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Gleization

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Soil formation in cold, wet climates with poor drainage conditions, accumulation of humus above water-saturated gray layer of clay.

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Oxisols

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Tropical soils

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Histosols

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Organic soils

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Spodosols

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Northern pine forest soils

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Andisols

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Volcanic soils

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Aridisols

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Desert soils

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Alfisols

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Moderately weathered forest soils

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Ultisols

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Heavily weathered forest soils

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Mollisols

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Grassland soils

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Entisols

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Recent undeveloped soils

73
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Inceptisols

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Weakly developed soils

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Gelisols

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Cold frozen soils

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Vertisols

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Expandable clay soils

GEOG 2400 (3 decks)

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