Chapter 10 Objective Questions

Land, Public and Private

Who Owns a Tree? Julia Butterfly Hill versus Maxxam

  1. What is the advantage of selective cutting over clear cutting?
  2. What did Maxxam do when they bought the land from Pacific Lumber?
  3. What happened to the Stafford, CA area due to their practices?
  4. What is a tree sit?
  5. How long did Julia stay in the tree, Luna?
  6. What was the result of her actions?

Human land use affects the environment in many ways.

  1. What problems come from extensive logging? Deforestation? Pavement?

Tragedy of the Commons

  1. Who wrote The Tragedy of the Commons?
  2. What is the message?
  3. What are examples of TOTC?

Externalities

  1. What are externalities? Examples?
  2. How would private usage differ from public when it comes to protecting resources?
  3. In what ways can we protect resource usage?

Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY)

  1. What is MSY?
  2. What are some examples of the implementation of this practice?
  3. What is the goal of MSY practices?
  4. Make sure you are familiar with the graph in Figure 10.3

Public lands are classified according to their usage.

  1. What is the United Nations List of Protected Areas?
  2. What is the Earth’s total land area and how much of it is protected?

International Categories of Protected Lands

  1. What are the 6 different categories of managed land and their purpose?
  2. What are the pros and cons of developing national parks?

Public Lands in the United States

  1. What percentage of land is public?
  2. Who is the largest landowner and by what percentage?
  3. Where is most of the land located?

Public Land and Classifications

  1. What is the resource conservation ethic?
  2. What are multiple-use lands?

Land Use and Federal Agencies

  1. What are the four federal agencies that manage all federal lands?

Land management practices vary according to land use.

RANGELANDS

  1. What are rangelands?
  2. What problems are associated with overgrazing?
  3. What are ungulates?
  4. What was the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 aiming to do?
  5. What does it mean that the BLM mitigates damage caused by grazing?

Forests

  1. What is a royalty?
  2. How much profit does the federal government usually see from the 73% ownership of these lands?

Timber Harvest Practices

  1. Differentiate between clear-cutting and selective cutting in terms of their pros and cons both environmentally and economically.
  2. What is ecological sustainable forestry?

Logging, Deforestation, And Reforestation

  1. What disruptions occur when logging takes place?
  2. What are tree plantations?
  3. What is required of the USFS to try and protect ecosystems?

Fire Management

  1. Is it better to suppress forest fires or to do prescribed burns? Explain.
  2. What activities cause forest fires?
  3. What are the benefits of forest fires?

National Parks

  1. What are the goals of the national park management system?
  2. What was the Leopold Report?
  3. What is the goal of the NPS?

National Parks and Human Activity

  1. What problems do humans create in national parks?

Federal Regulation of Land Use

  1. What is NEPA and its purpose?
  2. Clean Water Act?
  3. Endangered Species Act?
  4. What is an EIS?
  5. What is an environmental mitigation plan?

Residential land use is expanding.

  1. What is the difference between a suburban area and an urban area?
  2. What is the trend in terms of population shifts?

Urban Sprawl

  1. What is urban sprawl and what are the characteristics of these areas?

Causes and Effects of Sprawl

  1. The four main causes of sprawl?

Automobiles and Highways

  1. How did the automobile encourage sprawl?

Living Costs

  1. How did the cost of living encourage sprawl?
  2. How does housing differ from the city to the suburbs?

Urban Blight

  1. What happened to revenue for cities once people move out of them?
  2. How did these in turn hurt cities economically?
  3. How do road patterns develop?
  4. Why has urban blight contributed to racial issues?

Government Policies

  1. What is the Highway Trust Fund function?
  2. How was it funded?
  3. What is an induced demand?
  4. What is the purpose of zoning?
  5. What types of things does zoning regulate?
  6. What is multi-use zoning?
  7. What is the FHA and why was it started?
  8. How did the FHA change its practices after WWII?

Smart Growth

  1. What are the 10 basic principles to smart growth?
  2. What is TOD?
  3. What is infill?
  4. What are urban growth boundaries?
  5. What are some environmental benefits to smart growth?

Working Toward Sustainability – The Dudley Street Neighborhood

  1. What is eminent domain?
  2. What did the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative accomplish?

Work the FRQ and the Measuring Your Impact to practice your math essay writing skills. The multiple-choice questions are great examples of what you will see on the APES exam.