Land Use
Used to raise crops and livestock
What is Farmland
The movement of people from rural areas to cities.
What is Urbanization?
U.S. government establishment to help state, county, and local governments protect farmland in danger of being paved over or otherwise developed.
What is the National Farmland Protection Program?
This happened in the 1930s causing hundreds of farmers to go bankrupt.
What is the Great Depression?
Land within urban areas that is set aside for scenic and recreational enjoyment.
What is Open space?
This can cause soil erosion and may threaten forest plants and animals with extinction.
What is Deforestation?
The things that a society builds for public use.
What is Infrastructure?
Allowing more animals to graze in an area than the range can support.
What is overgrzing?
passed in 1964, this Act designated certain lands as wilderness areas.
What is The U.S. Wilderness Act.
The potentially flooded area near a river.
What is a flood plain?
Used primarily for grazing livestock
What is Rangeland?
Rapid expansion of a city into the countryside around the city.
What is Urban Sprawl?
The process of removing all of the trees from an area of land.
What is Clear-cutting?
A program that has set up several hundred preserves throughout the world since 1976, called biosphere reserves.
United Nations’s Man and the Biosphere Program.
Open spaces in urban areas that are left in their natural condition.
What are greenbelts?
This type of land is used for lumber, mining, and recreation.
What is National Land?
The increased temperature in a city.
What is heat island?
The process by which trees are planted to re-establish trees that have been cut down in a forest land.
What is Reforestation?
The first national park in the U.S.
What is Yellowstone?
This uses buses and trains to move many people at one time.
What is the Mass transit System?
This type of national land is protected from all exploitation for the benefit of future generations.
What is wilderness?
This determines in advance how land will be used—where houses, businesses, and factories will be built, where land will be protected for recreation, and so on.
What is land-use planning?
When trees are cut and burned, they
release this.
What is carbon dioxide?
Much of the rangeland in the United States is public land managed by the federal government, which leases the rangeland to ranchers. Much of it is degraded. This Act was enacted to reverse this trend and improve land management practices.
What is The Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978?
A computerized system for storing, manipulating, and viewing geographic data.
What is Geographic Information System (GIS)?