Lecture 20 Potential Exam Questions
1. Define both Land Use and Land Cover and give three examples of each.
2. What are two obstacles to accurately describing land use/land cover changes? Explain why each is an obstacle.
3. Define the following terms: Patch, Landscape, Habitat, Adjacencies.
4. Define Landscape Ecology
5. What are four results from forest fragmentation?
6. Explain why starting a palm oil plantation where tropical forests were is not a good idea.
7. What is a wildlife corridor?
8. Describe three types of human-caused Land Use/ Land Cover changes and how they affect Carbon storage and/or release.
page revision: 26, last edited: 19 Dec 2009 21:00