REN R495 Quiz: Terms for Land Reclamation

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Renewable Resources
• Course: REN R495
• Professor: Valerie Miller

Document Summary

Lexicon: vocabulary of language, including words and expressions. Includes what words are, how vocab is structured, how people use and store words, how people learn words, history and evolution of words, types of relationships between words and how words were created. Rehabilitation: return to a condition of health or useful activity. Improve land from a degraded or disturbed state for useful human purposes: no implication of restoration, some use interchangeably with reclamation. Usually implies rebuilding of soil and vegetation components of the degraded system: ecosystem reconstruction. Replacement: when a degraded site is reclaimed, vegetation and/or soil used may completely replace the type of vegetation and land use prior to the disturbance. Revegetation: to provide barren or denuded land with a vegetation cover: establishment of vegetation which replaces or tries to replicate pre-disturbance ground cover, assumed the area was vegetated at one time and this is the desired state.