| A | B |
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| What do we call an area of land that contains farming and relatively few peope? | Rural |
| What do we call an area of land that contains 2,500 or more people? | Urban |
| Many people move to an urban area for what main reason? | Jobs |
| Land used to graze cattle is known as what? | Rangeland |
| What is a heat island? | Cities tend to trap heat due to all the materials that absorb heat |
| An area thst is protected from all developement and human interference is known as what? | Wilderness |
| Give examples as a mass transit system? | buses and trains |
| What is infastructure? | any public service provided ex. roads, sewer, bridges |
| What was the first national park in the US? | yellowstone |
| Before 1850, most people lived in what areas? | rural |
| What tool do land-use planners use? | GIS Geographic Information System |
| What is the difference between clear-cutting, and selective cutting? | clear-cutting takes all trees, selective cutting takes only the medium to mature trees |
| Whay is the term for thwe area where human and wildlife live side by side? | biosphere reserve |
| Clear-cutting is bad because it does what two main things? | causes soil erosion and destroys wildlife |
| Which areas are the most protected by the goverment? | wilderness |
| An area in an urban area that is green and proved ecological services is called what? | green belt |
| How are rangelands damaged? | overgrazing |
| The movement of people from rural areas to cities is called what? | urbanization |
| What is deforestation? | removing all trees from an area without replacing them |
| What is reforestation? | replanting trees into an area |
| Trees remove what from the atmosphere? | CO2 Carbon Dioxide |
| Why is the rain forest so much more vulnerable to deforestation? | the soil is extremely thin |
| In the US each person uses the ecosystem services provided by more than how many hectares of land and water? Also in acres. | 12 hectares or 30 acres |
| Land that is poorly suited to have conastruction on it is known as what? | marginal land |
| Public lands are owned by whom? | all US citizens |
| Heat islands affect the temperature and what else? | weather atterns with increased precipitatioin |
| No matter where we live we are dependent on services provided from where? | Rural Areas |
| What did The Ntaional Farmland Protection Plan do? | Protect the land from development |
| Our wilderness areas will become more damaged as what happens? | Our population grows |
| What is urban crisis? | Occurs when a urban area grows faster than the infrastructure can be built |
| Where do most Americans Live? | urban areas |
| Landslides are most likely to happen on what type of land? | marginal lands |
| What is urban sprawl? | moving out from the city into rural areas |
| Deforestation is an especially serious problem in th tropical rain forrest because of what? | farms are constantly clearing out more and more land to obtain land that can support crops |
