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Land that contains relatively few people
What is rural land?
100

Before 1850, most people lived in _____________areas.

What is rural?
100
Land that is used to grow crops and fruit
What is farmland?
100
A type of logging where all trees are removed from an area
What is clear-cutting?
100
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200

The opposite of deforestation

What is reforestation?
200
The clearing of trees from an area without replacing them
What is deforestation?
200

One of the most important ecosystem services provided by forests is removing ___________ from the atmosphere

What is Carbon Dioxide?
200
An area that has 2,500 or more people and a governing body
What is urban?
200

Determining in advance how land will be used

What is land-use planning?

300

Land that is used to graze livestock

What is rangeland?
300

The movement of people from rural areas to cities

What is urbanization?
300
Land within an urban area set aside for scenic and recreational enjoyment.
What is open space?

What is a park?

300

The environmentally preferred method of harvesting trees

What is selective cutting?
300

The first national park in the United States

What is Yellowstone?
400
Buses, trains, and other modes of transportation designed for moving many people at once.
What is mass transit?
400
The cause of most damage to rangeland
What is overgrazing?
400
Rapid expansion of a city into the surrounding countryside
What is urban sprawl?
400

Fire stations, roads, sewers, and bridges

What is infrastructure?
400

Areas that are protected from development and environmental damage

What is wilderness?
500
Increased temperatures at the heart of a city
What is a heat island?
500

Land that is poorly suited for building

What is Marginal Land?
500

`A tool used by a land-use planner that can be though of as multiple maps layered on top of each other.

What is a geographical information system?
500
An area of land around a city that is left as it is naturally, in which development is prohibited 
What is a greenbelt?
500
Resources provided by natural and artificial ecosystems
What are ecosystem services?