NR 603 Exam 1 with Actual Questions and
Answers | 2026 Prep
1.Typical human land use - Correct Answer✔✔-Industry, agriculture,
development. Impacts are cumulative, persistent, and often far from source.
2.Land cover - Correct Answer✔✔-physical state (habitat or vegetation type)
of the land
3.land-cover change - Correct Answer✔✔-reflects the change in cover type.
Can be conversion, increase/decrease, fragmentation. Can be natural or
anthropogenic.
4.Land use - Correct Answer✔✔-The manner in which humans employ the
land and its resources
5.Land-use change - Correct Answer✔✔-How human use of the land has
changed over time
6.Land-use legacy - Correct Answer✔✔-Enduring consequences of land-use
practices on ecosystem structure and function decades or centuries or longer
after they have occurred and natural processes have been alive.
7.Legacy effects - Correct Answer✔✔-Recognizing them can add explanatory
power in understanding modern conditions and managing for future conditions
8.Historical human land use - Correct Answer✔✔-Began about 10,000 years
ago as burning to clear land. Most intense changes over the last 150 years due to
mechanized agriculture and explosive human population growth
9.Human land use and the physical template - Correct Answer✔✔-Can interact
to shape landscapes and eventually impact the plants and animals in the system.
10.Patterns of land use - Correct Answer✔✔-Can change the rate and direction
of naturals processes and natural disturbances. They can also introduce new and
novel forms of disturbance
Answers | 2026 Prep
1.Typical human land use - Correct Answer✔✔-Industry, agriculture,
development. Impacts are cumulative, persistent, and often far from source.
2.Land cover - Correct Answer✔✔-physical state (habitat or vegetation type)
of the land
3.land-cover change - Correct Answer✔✔-reflects the change in cover type.
Can be conversion, increase/decrease, fragmentation. Can be natural or
anthropogenic.
4.Land use - Correct Answer✔✔-The manner in which humans employ the
land and its resources
5.Land-use change - Correct Answer✔✔-How human use of the land has
changed over time
6.Land-use legacy - Correct Answer✔✔-Enduring consequences of land-use
practices on ecosystem structure and function decades or centuries or longer
after they have occurred and natural processes have been alive.
7.Legacy effects - Correct Answer✔✔-Recognizing them can add explanatory
power in understanding modern conditions and managing for future conditions
8.Historical human land use - Correct Answer✔✔-Began about 10,000 years
ago as burning to clear land. Most intense changes over the last 150 years due to
mechanized agriculture and explosive human population growth
9.Human land use and the physical template - Correct Answer✔✔-Can interact
to shape landscapes and eventually impact the plants and animals in the system.
10.Patterns of land use - Correct Answer✔✔-Can change the rate and direction
of naturals processes and natural disturbances. They can also introduce new and
novel forms of disturbance
