How We Use Land
Land covered mainly with buildings and roads, contains 2,500 or more people as well as a governing body
What is urban land?
The movement of people from rural areas to cities is known as...
What is urbanization?
Determining in advance how land will be used such as where house, businesses and factories will be built, where land will be protected for recreation, and so on
What is land-use planning?
This term describes the removal of only middle-aged and mature trees from a forest
What is selective cutting?
Which animal is the mascot for Hufflepuff house in the Harry Potter books?
What is a badger?
Land that contains relatively few people and large areas of open space
What is rural land?
This term describes all of the things that a society builds for public use
What is infrastructure?
What is overgrazing?
This term describes the complete removal of trees in a given area of land
What is clear-cutting?
Nori, the popular sushi ingredient is a type of what?
What is seaweed?
Resources produced by natural and artificial ecosystems
What are ecosystem services?
Rapid expansion of a city into the countryside around the city is called...
What is urban sprawl?
The clearing of trees from an area without replanting them is called...
What is deforestation?
Which of the following is NOT an example of infrastructure? a railroad, a school, a telephone line, a dairy farm
What is a dairy farm?
Which green is usually found in a Caesar salad?
What is romaine lettuce?
This type of land is used to graze livestock and wildlife
What is rangeland?
The increased temperature in a city is called a...
What is a heat island?
This term describes the process by which trees are planted to re-establish trees that have been cut down in a forest land
What is reforestation?
What is the main way rangeland can be degraded?
What is overgrazing?
Ray Charles was famous for playing which instrument?
What is a piano?
Land used for recreation and scenic enjoyment and for preserving native animal and plant communities and ecosystems
What are parks and preserves?
This term describes a computerized system for storing, manipulating, and viewing geographical data
What is a geographic information system (GIS)?
This term describes an area in which the land and the ecosystems it supports are protected from all exploitation
What is wilderness?
Overgrazing and deforestation can cause this to happen to soil
What is soil erosion?
Which country is Tasmania a part of?
What is Australia?