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.
