APES Flashcards

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