FREE SCIENCE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APES UNIT 5

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FREE SCIENCE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APES UNIT 5

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Question 1: What are some positives of the Green Revolution?

Answer:

GMOs, fertilizers, pesticides, and advanced irrigation produce higher crop yields and machinery allows for more efficient farming.

Question 2: What are the three main grains?

Answer:

Rice, wheat, and corn.

Question 3: What are the positives of soil tilling?

Answer:

It preps the soil for farming and loosens it for water and such to flow through.

Question 4: What are some examples of common areas being abused?

Answer:

Oceans--> pollution and overfishing Air-->pollution Freshwater-->overuse and pollution Animals--> overhunting Management--> subsidies and BLM

Question 5: What would be the most prominent effect of the clear cutting of a forest?

Answer:

Increased amount of CO2 released-->Climate change

Question 6: What are some ways to reduce deforestation?

Answer:

Reduce waste of forest derived materials and using tree-free paper.

Question 7: What approach is commonly used to combat overfishing?

Answer:

Reducing the limits on the numbers of commercial fish species that can be caught.

Question 8: What are environmental issues related to access to freshwater?

Answer:

Excessive withdrawal of freshwater is shrinking water tables.

Question 9: What are global security issues related to access to freshwater?

Answer:

Tension caused by competition over water.

Question 10: What are some alternatives to pesticide use?

Answer:

Fooling the pest, provide homes for the pests, implant genetic resistance, bring in natural predators.

Question 11: What are some ecosystem services provided by forests?

Answer:

Stores carbon, provides habitats, influence climate, provides raw materials, and house some plants used for medicines.

Question 12: What happened in Somalia in 1993?

Answer:

American forces helped distribute food. US thought they would easily detain Aidid Mohammad who was stealing and selling this food for profit. They ended up trapped overnight unprepared.

Question 13: What are some solutions to reduce clearcutting?

Answer:

Creating small, fast growing alternatives for fuelwood trees, burning wood efficiently, solar or wind energy, and burning garden waste.

Question 14: What are the negatives of GMOs?

Answer:

Could threaten human health and loss of natural biodiversity.

Question 15: What are economic issues related to access to freshwater?

Answer:

Not enough water to grow crops and provide everyone worldwide.Question 16: If most of the trees along a stream had been removed, what water quality would change?

Answer:

Increased water temperature.

Question 17: What are the negatives of pesticides?

Answer:

Accelerate resistance, costly, kill other predators, often applied inefficiently.Question 18: What direct economic consequence would likely occur if an area of forest was clear-cut so that a housing development can be built?

Answer:

Decreased number of game hunting licenses purchased.

Question 19: What's a natural alternative to fertilizers?

Answer:

Recycling of organic matter.

Question 20: How can we regulate the commons?

Answer:

Laws, privatization, and education.

Question 21: What are the advantages and disadvantages of drip irrigation?

Answer:

This method most efficiently delivers water directly to plant roots compared with other methods, and wastes less water, but it may be too costly for farmers in developing countries to use.Question 22: What industrial practice contributes to the tragedy of the commons?

Answer:

Burning fossil fuels for energy production.

Question 23: What are the negatives impacts of fertilizer?

Answer:

Cultural eutrophication and polluted water through runoff.

Question 24: What are global health issues related to access to freshwater?

Answer:

Many are dying from water-born diseases.

Question 25: What are the consequences of over pumping aquifers?

Answer:

Limits food production, high food prices, land subsidence, and widening gaps between the rich and poor.

Question 26: What is kenaf?

Answer:

A possible fas growing, paper alternative to reduce deforestation.

Question 27: How is the water cycle disturbed?

Answer:

By pollution, excess water withdrawal, and climate change. Wet places are getting wetter and dry places are getting drier.

Question 28: What are the negative consequences of waterlogging?

Answer:

Higher water tables --> Flooding