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Jeopardy Deserts Lands Land Mgt ETC Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100
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$100 Question Deserts Name a common characteristic Of all deserts?
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$100 Answer Deserts Poor Minerial Soil
Precipitation under 10” annually
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$200 Question Deserts What is the rainshadow effect?
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$200 Answer Deserts An area having relatively little precipitation due to the effect of a topographic barrier, especially a mountain range, that causes the prevailing winds to lose their moisture on the windward side, causing the leeward side to be dry.
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$300 Question Deserts What is leaching?
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$300 Answer Deserts drain away from soil, ash, or similar material by
the action of percolating liquid, especially rainwater.
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$400 Question Deserts What causes desertification?.
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$400 Answer Deserts the process by which fertile land becomes desert,
typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.
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$500 Question Deesrtss What are the spines of desert plants?
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$500 Answer Deserts Adapated leaves that provide protection
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$100 Question Land Which is and example of urbanization
Immigrants settle in NYC Farmer moves into the city Lumberjacks lose job & moves to city Indian family moves to city after a Devistating landslide?
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$100 Answer Land All but A
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$200 Question Land Give an example of infrastructure
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$200 Answer Land Railroad Streets Telephone lines school
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$300 Question Land What is the result of deforestation?
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$300 Answer Land Erosion Invasive plants moving in
Less CO2 is absorbed from atmosphere
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$400 Question Land What causes degradation Of rangeland?
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$400 Answer Land overgrazing Drought Driving ATV to compact soil
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$500 Question Land Why do we have National Parks?
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$500 Answer Land To provide recreation
To protect wildlife and habitats To preserve natural areas
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$100 Question Land Mgt What is an eco-service?
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$100 Answer Land Mgt edicated to investigating the impact of biodiversity change on ecosystem functioning and services, and human well-being. Its mission is to: ... Assess the effect of ecosystem service change on human well-being, and evaluate human responses to ecosystem service change.
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$200 Question Land Mgt What can unplanned rapid Growth create?
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$200 Answer Land Mgt Infrastructure that can not adequately support
The population
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$300 Question Land Mgt What is an effective way
To help a forest recover from Tree harvesting?
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$300 Answer Land Mgt Selective cutting Replanting project
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$400 Question Land Mgt How can open spaces
Provide environmental benefits To urban areas?
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$400 Answer Land Mgt Allow ground water to be absorbed
Become a carbon sink Provide areas of beauty
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$500 Question Land Mgt What does anthroprogenic Mean??
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$500 Answer Land Mgt chiefly of environmental pollution and pollutants
originating in human activity.
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$100 Question Leopold What is Land Ethic?
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$100 Answer Leopold To treat land more than just a commodity
moral responsibility to the natural world. At its core, the idea of a land ethic is simply caring: about people, about land, and about strengthening the relationships between them. To treat land more than just a commodity
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$200 Question Leopold In what book was Aldo Leopold’s
Essay The Land Ethic published?
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$200 Answer Misc. A Sand County Almanac
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$300 Question Misc. What was Aldo Leopold called? The Father of….
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$300 Answer Misc Wildlife Management ; he was also known as the Father of grassland restoration
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$400 Question Misc. What did Aldo Leopold teach us about The land?
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$400 Answer Misc. That we have to live and work WITH it
In order to preserve it
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$500 Question Misc Why is it important to preserve farmland?
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$500 Answer Misc Biodiversity, Soils Need land to grow food
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$100 Question from ETC Define Urban Sprawl
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$100 Answer ETC the uncontrolled expansion of urban areas
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$200 Question ETC What is a heat island?
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$200 Answer ETC The increased temperature In a city due to streets and
Buildings releasing heat Absorbed during day in the night
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$300 Question ETC What is the Aeolian process?
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$300 Answer ETC Pertains to wind activity in the study of Geology and weather specifically to the Wind’s ability to shape the surface of the Earth
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$400 Question ETC What is Soil Sealing?
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$400 Answer ETC Destruction or covering of
Soils by buildings, construction, And layers of impermeable artifical materials
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$500 Question ETC Passed in 1964, this law designated
Certain lands as a remote special area
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$500 Answer ETC Wilderness Act
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Final Jeopardy What can individuals do to
To reduce the loss of ecosystem Services as populations grow?
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Final Jeopardy Answer Conserve natural resources Reduce Reuse Renew
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