Chicken Soup for the Soil: Sustainable Landscapes and Stormwater Management

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A sustainable site can be defined as:
- a site that follows biomimicry, or natural principles.
- a site that is ecologically balanced, and willself-organize successfully with little maintenance.
- a healthy habitat whose resources are conserved for the use and enjoyment of future gene
  rations.
- all of the above
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What is xeriscaping?
- The respect of natural water flows.
- The use of native plants or vegetation.
- The use of draught tolerant species to minimize water use requirements.
- All of the above.
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In the nested systems model proposed by 7group, a Watershed is a landscape system that is situated:
- above the Community and the Site
- between the Building Envelope and the Site
- below the Site Systemic Level
- above the Site Systemic Level and below the Community Level
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What does the Heat Island Effect refer to in the context of Sustainable Sites?
- The effect of heat in an island surrounded by water.
- The effect of heat generated by a dark landscape, such as a parking lot, or asphalt drivewa
  y
- The effect of heat generated by dark asphalt roofs.
- All of the above
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What is a green field?
- A naturalsite that has not been disturbed by humans.
- A developed site that has been planted with localspecies.
- A site that has ecological balance.
- All of the above
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To reduce the use of potable water for irrigation, one may use:
- filtered water from urinals
- black water or waste water
- grey water and soapy water from clothes washers
- reclaimed water from lavatories
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What has the temperature rise of the oceans been, in Degree Celsius, between 1980 and 2010?
- .6
- 6
- 10
- 2
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The main difference between rain gardens and bioswales are: a rain garden has mostly soil and plants which filter stormwater from
sediment, whereas, bioswales have water, plants, and microbes in the roots of plants to purify the water.
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- False
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What are drainage bioswales?
- A detention pond that purifies stormwater through absorption, filtration, sedimentation, vol
  atilization, ion exchange and biological decomposition, before releasing it
- A wet basin with grasses on the side usually for erosion prevention, that cleans the runoff w
  ater coming from parking lots.
- A horizontal water based purifying vegetated ecosystem.
- All of the above
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Green roofs can be:
- Intensive
- Extensive
- Planted with sedums and trees
- All of the above
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Chicken Soup for the Soil: Sustainable Landscapes and Stormwater Management | 0920013641

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