NR 603 EXAM 1 EXAM(ACTUAL EXAM) WITH CORRECT ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECTLY WELL DEFINED ANSWERS LATEST ALREADY GRADED A+ 2026
Typical human land use - (ANSWER)Industry, agriculture, development. Impacts are cumulative,
persistent, and often far from source.
Land cover - (ANSWER)physical state (habitat or vegetation type) of the land
land-cover change - (ANSWER)reflects the change in cover type. Can be conversion, increase/decrease,
fragmentation. Can be natural or anthropogenic.
Land use - (ANSWER)The manner in which humans employ the land and its resources
Land-use change - (ANSWER)How human use of the land has changed over time
Land-use legacy - (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.
Legacy effects - (ANSWER)Recognizing them can add explanatory power in understanding modern
conditions and managing for future conditions
Historical human land use - (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
Human land use and the physical template - (ANSWER)Can interact to shape landscapes and eventually
impact the plants and animals in the system.
Patterns of land use - (ANSWER)Can change the rate and direction of naturals processes and natural
disturbances. They can also introduce new and novel forms of disturbance
Alternative stable states - (ANSWER)A change, seemingly large or small, can shift and ecosystem to a
new state and reversal of the change may not result in a return to the original conditions.
CORRECTLY WELL DEFINED ANSWERS LATEST ALREADY GRADED A+ 2026
Typical human land use - (ANSWER)Industry, agriculture, development. Impacts are cumulative,
persistent, and often far from source.
Land cover - (ANSWER)physical state (habitat or vegetation type) of the land
land-cover change - (ANSWER)reflects the change in cover type. Can be conversion, increase/decrease,
fragmentation. Can be natural or anthropogenic.
Land use - (ANSWER)The manner in which humans employ the land and its resources
Land-use change - (ANSWER)How human use of the land has changed over time
Land-use legacy - (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.
Legacy effects - (ANSWER)Recognizing them can add explanatory power in understanding modern
conditions and managing for future conditions
Historical human land use - (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
Human land use and the physical template - (ANSWER)Can interact to shape landscapes and eventually
impact the plants and animals in the system.
Patterns of land use - (ANSWER)Can change the rate and direction of naturals processes and natural
disturbances. They can also introduce new and novel forms of disturbance
Alternative stable states - (ANSWER)A change, seemingly large or small, can shift and ecosystem to a
new state and reversal of the change may not result in a return to the original conditions.
