CHAPTER 13 RESTORATION ECOLOGY
must complete 3 daily grades
options(1 of them must be notes or Learn Smart Activity):
notes or Learn Smart
case study
free-response question
Chapter 13 quiz
Pick 1 project grade
Test is due next Wednesday. This is not your final.
options:
Ecotourism Brochure Activity
Design a tri-fold ecotourism travel brochure for an assigned restoration area. The idea is to
include information on how their company is restoring this ecosystem and why
tourists would want to visit and hire this company to take them on the trip. The
information to be included in the brochure can be found in the worksheet.
Restoration Activity
Research the effects of an oil spill, damage control of the
oil spill, remediation, and restoration of the fragile gulf ecosystems. Create a presentation answering all questions on the worksheet for this activity.
Extended Case Study Research Paper
500 word feature article that includes additional research into one of the four case studies for this six weeks. Must include bibliography.
Carbon Lab
You will complete all three lessons.
Chapter Overview and PPT
Restoration is an important AP topic. The idea of resilience reinforces the
concept of secondary succession. Understanding the role of fire in maintaining
natural ecosystems and the connections to the cycling of nutrients are essential
concepts. The restoration of vital ecosystems maintains biodiversity.
1. Illustrate the ways that we can help nature heal and that nature is resilient.
2. Justify restoration, mitigation, and replacement of natural areas damaged by
humans.
3. What are the four aspects of restoration ecology? What human activities
could have caused the disturbances in each aspect?
4. Why is maintaining biological diversity a key component of ecosystem
management?
5. Summarize plans to restore prairies and understand the role of fire in
maintaining ecosystems.
6. Why is fire suppression a controversial practice?
7. Why is wetland restoration a challenging project?
8. Compare approaches to restoring wetlands and streams.
9. In what way is the American bison a keystone species?
DOL Questions
Practice Questions
Multiple Choice:
Directions for questions 1-5: The lettered choices below correspond to the
descriptions given in questions 1-5. Select the one lettered choice that best fits
each statement. Each choice may be used once, more than once, or not at all.
(A) John Muir
(B) Aldo Leopold
(C) Rachel Carson
(D) Gifford Pinchot
(E) John F. Kennedy
1. author of “Silent Spring” that presented the dangers of pesticide use
2. author of “Sand County Almanac”
3. founder of the Sierra Club
4. his/her Land Ethic philosophy reflects the existence of an ecological
conscience
5. first head of the U. S. Forest Service
6. Compensation for destroying a site is called ______________.
(A) mitigation
(B) restoration
(C) rehabilitation
(D) remediation
(E) re-creation
7. In the early 1900s logging companies devastated regions without any
reclamation or replanting. This was called ______________.
(A) here and there
(B) logging production rights
(C) cut and run
(D) cut and cut more
(E) select cut
8. Native areas frequently regenerate themselves through the process of
__________.
(A) natural selection
(B) secondary production
(C) succession
(D) primary production
(E) rejuvenation
9. Which of the following is NOT a step in ecological restoration?
(A) Picking up litter
(B) Removing invasive species
(C) Replanting native species
(D) Clean up of a local river
(E) Planting exotic species
10. One of the most expensive restoration projects is _______________.
(A) the University of Wisconsin’s Curtis Prairie
(B) the damming of the Mississippi River
(C) the Okefenoke Swamp
(D) the Everglades
(E) the Great Lakes Forest
Free-Response Question:
Directions: Answer all parts of the following question. Where explanation or
discussion is required, support your answers with relevant information and/or
specific examples. When a calculation is required, be sure to show how you
arrived at your answer.
1. The Knightland logging company has clear cut an area in a national forest.
Answer the following questions pertaining to restoration and ecosystem
management.
(a) Describe two environmental problems that result from the clear cutting of
the forest.
(b) Describe two sustainable logging practices that might lead to restoration.
(c) Identify three ecosystem services obtained from the forest.
(d) What is the role of the forest in the carbon cycle?
(e) Explain two economic benefits from the logging company’s operation.
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Chapter 12
CHAPTER 12
BIODIVERSITY: PRESERVING LANDSCAPES
Chapter Overview
This chapter explains the nature of forests, grasslands and nature preserves. The
importance of these vital ecosystems is stressed and the environmental
conditions that result as a consequence of anthropogenic uses of these lands.
Nature preserves, both terrestrial and aquatic are designated to protect these
ecosystems and their inhabitants. Working in conjunction with the human
inhabitants of an area, biosphere preserves are created. This, in turn, is
beneficial as ecotourism becomes a boost to the local economy.
Assignments options for Chapter 12
Daily Work/Homework:
Notes or Learn Smart (you must complete one) (due 12/4)
Chapter 12 quiz (due 12/4)
Free Response Question (due 12/2)
Case Study (due 11/30)
Cost/Benefit Analysis of monoculture foresty. (due 12/1)
Song Activity Worksheet (due 12/30)
Conservation/Preservation Worksheet (due 12/1)
Sustainability of Resources Activity (due 12/3)
Peer Evaluation (thursday)
Projects:
National Parks Project
Rubric for the National Parks Project
Environmental Song Project (Last Question on the Song Activity worksheet).
Challenge: Find an “environmental” song. (25 pts)
Share the lyrics with the class. (25 pts)
Make a similar worksheet for class discussion. Be sure to have the responses for all questions. (25 pts)
Peer ratings of project (25 pts)
Presentations are 12/4
Test is due Wednesday December 6
Questions for Cornell Notes and PPT
1. What are the types and uses and relative proportions of world forests.
2. Describe the location and state of grazing lands around the world.
3. Summarize the types and locations of nature preserves.
4. How does preserving forest plant species help regulate the hydrologic cycle and provide clean drinking water?
5. What are three benefits of subsidizing the logging industry? What is the environmental impact each has on the forest?
6. How is GIS being used to protect forests?
7. What is threatening the existence of temperate forests?
8. What are the guiding principles that shape the U. S. Forest Service policies of ecosystem management?
9. How does desertification occur?
10. What is the rationale behind rotational grazing?
11. What is the premise for ecotourism?
DOL Questions
Directions for questions 1-5: The lettered choices below correspond to the
descriptions given in questions 1-5. Select the one lettered choice that best fits
each statement. Each choice may be used once, more than once, or not at all.
(A) desertification
(B) overgrazing
(C) deforestation
(D) ecotourism
(E) rotational grazing
1. much of the rangeland in the U.S. is subjected to this Tragedy of the Commons
2. clearing of land by subsistence farmers
3. benefits both humans and environment
4. a process exacerbated by arid climate
5. promotes healthier pastures
6. In temperate forests insect infestations are most likely a result of
____________.
(A) clear cutting
(B) climate change
(C) wildfires
(D) selective cutting
(E) poor forestry practice
7. Criteria for sustainable forestry include all of the following except _______.
(A) conservation of biodiversity
(B) maintain soil and water resources
(C) maintain forest contribution to global carbon cycle
(D) clear cutting practices to provide timber for a growing population
(E) maintain productive capacity of forest ecosystems
Use the following graph for questions 8-10.
8. How many million hectares of soil are degraded worldwide?
(A) 3000
(B) 2500
(C) 500
(D) 1000
(E) 2000
9. In which continent(s) are the causes of soil degradation due to overgrazing
equal to causes of soil degradation due to other causes?
(A) South America
(B) North and Central America
(C) Africa
(D) Asia
(E) Oceania
10. The two continents with the highest amount of soil degradation due to
overgrazing are Africa and Oceania. What physical geographic features do
they have in common?
(A) Desert and semiarid scrub make up most of the grazing land
(B) Both have extensive mountainous regions used for grazing
(C) Taiga biomes dominate the landscape
(D) Both continents have tropical moist land used for grazing
(E) The inhabitants of the continents are nomadic in nature
Free-Response Question:
Directions: Answer all parts of the following question. Where explanation or
discussion is required, support your answers with relevant information and/or
specific examples. When a calculation is required, be sure to show how you
arrived at your answer.
1. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oversees western rangeland. Answer
the following questions pertaining to rangeland.
(a) Identify and describe TWO environmental costs of grazing on western
rangeland.
(b) Why is the BLM land a commons?
(c) Identify and describe TWO remedies to degradation of the rangeland.
(d) Describe one characteristic of the land that would make it more
susceptible to soil degradation.
BIODIVERSITY: PRESERVING LANDSCAPES
Chapter Overview
This chapter explains the nature of forests, grasslands and nature preserves. The
importance of these vital ecosystems is stressed and the environmental
conditions that result as a consequence of anthropogenic uses of these lands.
Nature preserves, both terrestrial and aquatic are designated to protect these
ecosystems and their inhabitants. Working in conjunction with the human
inhabitants of an area, biosphere preserves are created. This, in turn, is
beneficial as ecotourism becomes a boost to the local economy.
Assignments options for Chapter 12
Daily Work/Homework:
Notes or Learn Smart (you must complete one) (due 12/4)
Chapter 12 quiz (due 12/4)
Free Response Question (due 12/2)
Case Study (due 11/30)
Cost/Benefit Analysis of monoculture foresty. (due 12/1)
Song Activity Worksheet (due 12/30)
Conservation/Preservation Worksheet (due 12/1)
Sustainability of Resources Activity (due 12/3)
Peer Evaluation (thursday)
Projects:
National Parks Project
Rubric for the National Parks Project
Environmental Song Project (Last Question on the Song Activity worksheet).
Challenge: Find an “environmental” song. (25 pts)
Share the lyrics with the class. (25 pts)
Make a similar worksheet for class discussion. Be sure to have the responses for all questions. (25 pts)
Peer ratings of project (25 pts)
Presentations are 12/4
Test is due Wednesday December 6
Questions for Cornell Notes and PPT
1. What are the types and uses and relative proportions of world forests.
2. Describe the location and state of grazing lands around the world.
3. Summarize the types and locations of nature preserves.
4. How does preserving forest plant species help regulate the hydrologic cycle and provide clean drinking water?
5. What are three benefits of subsidizing the logging industry? What is the environmental impact each has on the forest?
6. How is GIS being used to protect forests?
7. What is threatening the existence of temperate forests?
8. What are the guiding principles that shape the U. S. Forest Service policies of ecosystem management?
9. How does desertification occur?
10. What is the rationale behind rotational grazing?
11. What is the premise for ecotourism?
DOL Questions
Directions for questions 1-5: The lettered choices below correspond to the
descriptions given in questions 1-5. Select the one lettered choice that best fits
each statement. Each choice may be used once, more than once, or not at all.
(A) desertification
(B) overgrazing
(C) deforestation
(D) ecotourism
(E) rotational grazing
1. much of the rangeland in the U.S. is subjected to this Tragedy of the Commons
2. clearing of land by subsistence farmers
3. benefits both humans and environment
4. a process exacerbated by arid climate
5. promotes healthier pastures
6. In temperate forests insect infestations are most likely a result of
____________.
(A) clear cutting
(B) climate change
(C) wildfires
(D) selective cutting
(E) poor forestry practice
7. Criteria for sustainable forestry include all of the following except _______.
(A) conservation of biodiversity
(B) maintain soil and water resources
(C) maintain forest contribution to global carbon cycle
(D) clear cutting practices to provide timber for a growing population
(E) maintain productive capacity of forest ecosystems
Use the following graph for questions 8-10.
8. How many million hectares of soil are degraded worldwide?
(A) 3000
(B) 2500
(C) 500
(D) 1000
(E) 2000
9. In which continent(s) are the causes of soil degradation due to overgrazing
equal to causes of soil degradation due to other causes?
(A) South America
(B) North and Central America
(C) Africa
(D) Asia
(E) Oceania
10. The two continents with the highest amount of soil degradation due to
overgrazing are Africa and Oceania. What physical geographic features do
they have in common?
(A) Desert and semiarid scrub make up most of the grazing land
(B) Both have extensive mountainous regions used for grazing
(C) Taiga biomes dominate the landscape
(D) Both continents have tropical moist land used for grazing
(E) The inhabitants of the continents are nomadic in nature
Free-Response Question:
Directions: Answer all parts of the following question. Where explanation or
discussion is required, support your answers with relevant information and/or
specific examples. When a calculation is required, be sure to show how you
arrived at your answer.
1. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oversees western rangeland. Answer
the following questions pertaining to rangeland.
(a) Identify and describe TWO environmental costs of grazing on western
rangeland.
(b) Why is the BLM land a commons?
(c) Identify and describe TWO remedies to degradation of the rangeland.
(d) Describe one characteristic of the land that would make it more
susceptible to soil degradation.
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