Land Use
Land that is not urban is ___.
What is rural?
The rapid expansion of cities into surrounding rural areas is called ____.
What is urban sprawl?
What causes famine?
What is a shortage of food?
What does GMO stand for?
What has been introduced by the government to avoid overharvesting of certain types of fish?
What are no fishing zones?
Land used for recreation
What are parks?
Urban communities initially began to grow around what three things?
What are drinking water, agriculture, and transportation?
What percent of the earth's surface is agricultural?
What is 37%?
How much of North America's crops are eaten by pests?
What is 13%?
Where are the majority of livestock chickens in the US raised?
What are factory farms?
What is it called when trees are harvested like crops?
What are tree farms?
What happens when more people live in a city than the infrastructure can support?
What is urban crisis?
Malnutrition is caused by what?
What is a shortage of nutrients?
What do we use to ward of pests?
What are pesticides?
When erosion occurs, which part of the ground is damaged?
What is topsoil?
The process of clearing all trees from the land without replacing them.
What is deforestation?
Give two examples of things society builds for public use.
What are roads/bridges/schools/power and water lines/hospitals?
Describe an ideal crop.
What is little or no negative impact on the environment?
What is over 500?
How do humans negatively affect national parks?
What are littering and traffic jams?
What is it called when livestock is bred for human use?
What is domestication?
Roads and buildings absorb and retain more heat than vegetation does. Due to this, urban areas have what over them?
What are heat domes?
People in the U.S., tend to have a larger proportion of __________ in their diets.
What are protein and fats?
What do farmers do to keep their crops healthy?
What is crop rotation?
What happens when human activity damages the land and it can no longer support the local ecosystem?
What is land degradation?