FORESTRY
ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
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Question
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Which of the following describes the depletion of a renewable resource
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hunting excess deer to maintain healthy population size
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intensive cultivation of farmland that exhausts soil nutrients
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Mining coal
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increasing use of solar energy to generate electrical power
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -environmental degradation Depletion or destruction of a potentially renewable resource such as soil, grassland, forest, or wildlife that is used faster than it is naturally replenished. If such use continues, the resource becomes nonrenewable (on a human time scale) or nonexistent (extinct).
Detailed explanation-2: -Environmental science seeks to protect both human beings and the environment from negative factors such as climate change and pollution. Ecology is the specific study of the relationships between living organisms: humans and animals, animals and plants, plants and organisms.
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