8233137745 | John Muir | Protected Yosemite | 0 | |
8233153583 | Theodore Roosevelt | protected Yellowstone | 1 | |
8233159672 | Rachel Carson | published evidence of danger of DDT | 2 | |
8233178483 | Gifford Pinchot | First chief of the Forest Service | 3 | |
8233203072 | Henry David Thoreau | easterner who wrote about Walden Pond | 4 | |
8233213877 | South America, North America, Russia | Which countries have the most forests | 5 | |
8233226254 | (Births-Deaths)/10 | RNI | 6 | |
8233242767 | 70/RNI | Doubling time | 7 | |
8233250741 | Approaching carrying capacity | why is the world's population growth rate decreasing | 8 | |
8233258384 | fertility | average number of babies born from each mother | 9 | |
8233270634 | what could cause fertility to decrease | delayed births or marriage, urbanization | 10 | |
8233284346 | GDP or GNP | common economic measure of a nation | 11 | |
8233295547 | Low infant mortality | best indicator of a high quality of life | 12 | |
8233310371 | Deaths=Births, stage 1 and 4 | 0 growth occurs | 13 | |
8233327107 | Largest difference in deaths and births, stage 2 | most rapid growth | 14 | |
8233350604 | improved sanitation, medicine | why do deaths decrease first | 15 | |
8233360344 | cultural reasons, slow to educate or provide women with options | why are births slow to decline | 16 | |
8233400201 | China reduced births | why is India likely to overtake china as the largest nation | 17 | |
8233418539 | National Park | Usually preserved to protect historic, wildlife, and natural features. | 18 | |
8233487239 | climate change/ purify water | most global service of forests | 19 | |
8233494933 | shelterwood | which selective cutting opens up the canopy and makes space to encourage growth | 20 | |
8233515774 | soil erosion | greatest non-sustainable effect of clear cutting | 21 | |
8233530677 | spray pesticides | what was done in national forests that could lead to fish kills due to biomagnification | 22 | |
8233546710 | increase temperature, decrease rainfall | local impact of deforestation | 23 | |
8233561296 | replant and selective or strip cutting of mature forests | what is the best method to have sustainable logging | 24 | |
8233653750 | why is suppressing fires dangerous to forests | allow fuel to increase | 25 | |
8233668371 | why are fires beneficial to forests | add nutrients to the soil, opens canopy to allow sun to soil | 26 | |
8233693494 | what makes tropical rainforests different from other forests | greater diversity | 27 | |
8233700356 | wilderness | public land that is roadless to reduce human impact | 28 | |
8233724430 | what characteristic to DDT allows it to biomagnify | persistence | 29 | |
8233732664 | bioaccumulation | first step in biomagnification | 30 | |
8233755087 | why can pesticides be found where the have never been sprayed | air/water circulation | 31 | |
8233765190 | resistance and killing natural predators | causes pest populations to increase with the continued use of pesticides | 32 | |
8233784047 | access to education, medicine, jobs | reasons that urban is better than rural | 33 | |
8233808794 | pesticide treadmill | the natural tendency of a farmer to fight a resistant pest by spraying more pesticides | 34 | |
8233822908 | natural predators | best way to reduce pest populations | 35 | |
8233839388 | cars | the single factor that most led to urban sprawl | 36 | |
8233850515 | cars, A/C, absorption on dark surfaces | source of "urban heat island" | 37 | |
8233861304 | mass transit | reduced efficiency because of urban sprawl | 38 | |
8233884778 | why would large cities in less developed nations have more air pollution than the same sized city in developed nations | older and less maintained vehicles | 39 | |
8233903811 | what characteristics of Bradenton are not true of a "green city" | using solar energy, preserve natural areas for diversity, planning to reduce travel and pollution, recycling more | 40 |
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