Land Resources
What is land cover?
What you find on a patch of land
What is the process by which water, wind, or ice moves particles of rocks or soil?
Erosion
What type of mining removes a strip of land to obtain the materials, and then replaces that strip of land?
Strip Mining
What is Urbanization?
Is an increase in the ratio or density of people living in urban areas rather than in rural areas. People usually leave rural areas for more plentiful and better paying jobs in towns and cities.
What is rural land?
A population that is less than 2,500 people
Open land used for farming
Any population that isn't classified as urban
What are the problems that can result from poor soil management?
Desertification
Nutrient Depletion
Erosion
What is the process of restoring land to a natural, productive state after a mining project?
Land reclamation
What is the Urban Crisis
When more people live in a city than its infrastructure can support, the living conditions deteriorate. This growth problem has become so widespread throughout the world
What is urban land?
A population that contains 2,500 or more people
An area that contains a city
An area that usually has a governing body
What is a heat island
An area in which the air temperature is generally higher than the temperature of surrounding rural areas
What is the advance of desert-like conditions into areas that were previously fertile land?
Desertification
What is an Open Space
land within urban areas that is set aside for scenic and recreational enjoyment. It also has many environmental benefits and provides valuable functions.
What is an example of a land cover?
Parking lot
What is land that is difficult to adapt to human use called?
Marginal land
Where do most people live today? (rural or urban areas?)
Urban Areas
What is an ecosystem service?
What is a major affect of heat islands due to the hot air rising as it passes over a city?
Increased cloud coverage
Changes in weather patterns
Increased rainfall
What is urban sprawl?
the rapid spread of a city into adjoining suburbs and rural areas.