ECOLOGY
HUMANS AND THE BIOSPHERE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Clearing a forested area outside of the city to build houses.
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Building apartments at the site of an abandoned factory in the city.
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Filling a wetland area and building oceanfront condominiums.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A developer wants to build a new housing development in or around a large city. Which of the following plans would be LEAST harmful to the environment? Building apartments at the site of an abandoned factory in the city.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which of the following is NOT considered a sustainable-development strategy for management of Earth’s resources? contour plowing.
Detailed explanation-3: -Predicting the cause and effect of a stressor and understanding the underlying fundamental ecology (Figure 2; blue and green boxes) are the first step to designing an environmental solution. Ecology has achieved this with great success.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: Using environmental resources in a way that does not cause long-term environmental harm is like spending only as much money as you earn, meaning the answer is B). Environmental and natural resources are those resources that are available to us from the planet we live on.
Detailed explanation-5: -The biosphere is made up of the parts of Earth where life exists-all ecosystems. The biosphere extends from the deepest root systems of trees, to the dark environments of ocean trenches, to lush rain forests, high mountaintops, and transition zones like this one, where ocean and terrestrial ecosystems meet.