The Modern World Terms Flashcards
A plot of land where trees or shrubs are grown for scientific or educational study either individually or groupings
Arboretum
Pastoral, bucolic, rural, rustic; simple or innocent; often used in reference to the English school of landscape designers of the 18th century and the American movement of the 19th century
Arcadian
An exterior wall around an open area or enclosed courtyard of a fortified castle during the middle ages
Bailey
A rectangular or cylindrical vertical post, column, or pilaster which supports a handrail or coping
Baluster
A term applied to a wall with a slight inward slope to its face
Batter
As part of a fortress or fortified town wall; a parapet wall with continuous series of indentions or openings between
Battlement
The higher sections of the parapet wall or battlement
Merlons
The openings of a parapet wall that provided shooting positions for defenders
Crenels
A horizontal mound of earth; an embankment
Berm
In highway or landscape construction, this term is applied to the ridge of earth at the top of a slope to divert the flow of surface runoff water and prevent erosion of the slope
Berm
The appropriation, or taking advantage, of desirable views or scenery that are visible from one’s own property but, are in fact, outside one’s ownership
Borrowed Scenery
A leafy shelter; an arbor
Bower
A Victorian, 19th-century style popular in England and borrowed elsewhere with bedding plants arranged in geometric patterns within a grass lawn; typically, composed of annual plants, which were alternated inti the scheme based in their time of bloom
Carpet Bedding
The normal maximum number of organisms that an area can support; generally expressed in terms of population per acre or per square mile for larger organisms; per square foot or per square cubic foot for microorganisms and soil organisms; dependent on the least abundant limiting factor of the environment
Carrying Capacity
A structure that is built like a castle or fortress with turrets and battlements
Castellated
A small underground reservoir or pump in an engineered storm drainage system where surface water enters the underground portions of the system either by gravity or pumping
Catch Basin
The upper window level in a building, rising above adjacent roofs of the other parts, such as the aisles in a church
Clerestory
An open place for public assembly in an urban area
Common (Agora, Green/Square, Piazza, Plaza)
The practice of selecting from various sources, usually in order to form a new system or style of design; combining historical styles of various types
Eclecticism
A self-sustaining community of organisms plus their inorganic environment; must have an adequate resource of chemical nutrients, energy, and a balanced population of organisms
Ecosystem
Organisms tied together in interlocking food chains (4 Types)
Energy Accumulators (Chlorophyll Plants)
Primary Consumers (Fungi, Microorganisms, Herbivores)
Second-order Consumers (Carnivorous Predators, Parasites, Scavengers)
Decomposers (Bacteria, Fungi, etc.)
The science that deals with the interrelationships between organisms and their environment; study of the home
Ecology
Greek word where Ecology came from
Oikos (house)
In the English Romantic landscape garden, a feature in the scene that is intended to attract the attention of the viewer; a focal element
Eye-catcher
