AREC 200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sea Level Rise, Impervious Surface, Alewife

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Course: AREC 200
• Professor: Keryn Gedan

Document Summary

Chesapeake bay geology and geography: geological formation, meteor strike, sea level rise and fall, ancient river valley, geologically young only 3000 yrs, geography & bathymetry, shallow, many tributaries, long coastline, watershed size, absolute and relative to the bay"s area, airshed, even larger than the watershed, notable human engineering structures. Chesapeake ecological history: who was john smith, and what was his role in the chesapeake bay"s history, common animals now less common: fish (e. g. fishing with frying pans)diamondback terrapins, sharks, whales, anadromous fish (including sturgeon, alewives, shad), wolves, bears, sea level rise, erosion, chesapeake island loss, historical land use change, clearing of forest, loss of wetlands, rise in agricultural land, then decline as rise in urban land, increase in impervious surfaces and effects on storm runoff (flash floods, feedbacks, loss of wetlands > loss of capacity to process nutrients, loss of oysters > loss of filtration capacity.