Protecting land

Protecting land

What actions help protect the land?

• what is the meaning of reuse, reduce, recycle?

Resource Use Wood, petroleum, and metals are important for making the products you use every day at home and in school. However, if these resources are not used carefully, the environment can be damaged.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle 

• Reducing is using fewer resources.

• Recycling is Making a new product from a used product .

• Reusing Using an item for a new purpose

Multiple Choice

Using an item for a new purpose is.......

• Reuse

• recycle

• reduce

Multiple Choice

Using fewer resources.

• Reuse

• recycle

• reduce

Multiple Choice

Making a new product from a used product

• Reuse

• recycle

• reduce

 Compost is a mixture of decaying organic matter, such as leaves, food scraps, and grass clippings. It improves soil quality by adding nutrients to soil.

Managing Land Resources

• uses involve renewable resources

• Governments can manage forests and other unique ecosystems by preserving them

Reforestation involves planting trees to replace ones that have been removed. Reforestation can keep a forest healthy or help reestablish a deforested area.

Reclamation is the process of restoring land disturbed by mining. In reclamation, mined areas are reshaped, covered with soil, and then replanted with trees and other vegetation

Multiple Choice

Which describes an effect of recycling?

• Recycling increases land usage.

• Recycling decreases land usage

• Recycling increases pollution.

Multiple Choice

Composting means piling up grass and leaves so they can be allowed to gradually decompose. Which describes an impact that composting has on land?

• a decrease in the amount of land used for landfills

• a decrease in the amount of groundwater in an area

• a decrease in the amount of land used for farming