Module 24

Question 1

Tragedy of the commons

Answer 1

The tendency of a shared, limited resource to become depleted if it is not regulated in some way (government or by users)

Question 2

Externality

Answer 2

The cost or benefit of a good or service that is not included in the purchase price of that good or service or otherwise accounted for

Question 3

Rangelands

Answer 3

Dry, open grasslands primarily used for grazing and cattle (susceptible to fires and environmental disturbances)

Question 4

Forests

Answer 4

Land dominated by trees and other woody vegetation and sometimes used for commercial logging

Question 5

Clear-cutting

Answer 5

A method of harvesting trees that involves removing all or almost all of the trees within an area

Question 6

Selective cutting

Answer 6

The method of harvesting trees that involves the removal of single trees or a relatively small number of trees from the larger forest

Question 7

Ecologically sustainable forestry

Answer 7

An approach to removing trees from forests in ways that do not unduly affect the viability of other noncommercial tree species

Question 8

Tree plantations

Answer 8

A large area typically planted with a single fast-growing tree species

Question 9

Endangered species act

Answer 9

A 1973 U.S. law designed to protect plant and animal species that are threatened with extinction, and the habitats that support those species