NRM 140 Final Exam Study Guide:

FINAL EXAM IS MULTIPLE CHOICE AND COMPREHENSIVE. May 4th 3:00 -5:30 pm.

Everything from the first two exams plus:

Terms to Know:

natural resources curse

global soil limits to agriculture

why soils are important

soil functions

rhizosphere

importance of plants in soils (pump carbon and oxygen into the soil)

erosion

desertification

polution

sealing

compaction

principles of ecological design

mountaintop removal for coal extraction

large agricultural case study

monoculture

hydrologic cycle

shallow infiltration

deep infiltration

runoff

evapotranspiration

river basin

watershed

global water supply

salt vs. freshwater

components of freshwater on Earth

hydrology

aquifer

Mississippi River Basin

Dead zone

hypoxic conditions

Amazon River Basin

Nile River Basin

French Broad River Basin

Pigeon River Basin

Invasive plants

invasive animal species

invasive microbial species

japanese barberry

princess tree

english ivy

burning bush

nandina

bradford pear

native plant

exotic plant

invasive exotic plant

dangers of invasive plants and why they spread so fast

invasive plant management

Watershed Management Approach Advantages

Nonstructural Practices for Watershed Management

Structural approaches for Watershed Management

Constructed Wetlands

Groundwater/ Surface water relative abundance

sinkhole

different ways that groundwater contamination occurs

groundwater use patterns in the United States

land subsidence

Strahler stream order nomenclature

importance of first and second order streams

storm flow

base flow

Source Zone - headwaters

Transition Zone

Flood Plane Zone

Contour Buffer Strips

Vegetative Buffer Strips

Importance of River Meanders

Kissimmee River Case study

Hole in the Donut Case study

wetlands

commonalities in various definitions

variation in wetlands

hydrophytes

hydric soil

obligate wetland plants (OBL)

facultative wetland plants (FACW)

facultative plants (FAC)

facultative upland plants (FACU)

obligate wetland platns (UPL)

mucky texture

gleying

sulfidic smell

mottling

stratified layers

redox concentrations (orange color)

marl (calcium carbonate)

tidal salt marshes

tidal freshwater marshes

mangrove wetlands

freshwater marshes

peatlands

freshwater swamps

riparian wetlands

transportation and natural resources