Land Use Patterns
Types of Farming
Economy
Why Cities Grow Where They Do
This and That
100

Land for all types of housing

What is Residential Land Use

100

Tending of crops and raising livestock

What is agriculture

100

Total of goods and services produced in a country

What is the GDP, gross domestic product

100

The main reason cities developed

What is being near a water source

100

Permanent collection of buildings where people work and live

Wat is a Settlement.

200

Land for Road and Railroads

What is Transportation Land Use

200

Transition of land from fertile to desert

What is Decertification

200

Total of goods/services produced by citizens at home or abroad

What is GNP, gross national product

200

A market center where people buy and sell good/services

What is the central place

200

Any activity that meets a human need and provider gets money

What is a Service

300

Land for Manufacturing and Distribution

What is Industrial Land Use

300

Food production without GMO's

What is Organic farming

300

Economy seriously declines for about six months

What is a Recession

300

Maximum distance people will travel for a service

What is a Range

300

Designed to get more money to small farmers in poor countries

What is Fair Trade

400

Land to make a profit, retail, hotels, offices

What is Commercial Land Use

400

Food grown in rooftop farms, community gardens...

What is Urban Farming

400

Economy sustained serious decline for long time

What is a Depression

400

Minimum number of people needed to support a service

What is the threshold

400

Plants & animals that have their genetics (DNA) altered

What are GMO's (genetically modified organisms)

500

Land for Public Activities

What is Institutional Land Use

500

Farming for a farmers family to eat

What is Subsistence Farming

500

When people lack food to meet their needs

What is food insecurity

500

A major world city for the economy

What is a Global City

500

When property values run lower classes out of their urban homes

What is Gentrification

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