Land Resources Quiz

What is Urbanization?

• Rapid expansion of urban areas.

• Too many cattle herded in the same area

• Planting too much of one crop and farming it repeatedly over a large area

• Mass cut of trees in forested area reducing wildlife and causing erosion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

What is Overfarming?

• Rapid expansion of urban areas.

• Too many cattle herded in the same area

• Planting too much of one crop and farming it repeatedly over a large area

• Mass cut of trees in forested area reducing wildlife and causing erosion

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is Deforestation?

• Rapid expansion of urban areas.

• Too many cattle herded in the same area

• Planting too much of one crop and farming it repeatedly over a large area

• Mass cut of trees in forested area reducing wildlife and causing erosion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

What is Overgrazing?

• Rapid expansion of urban areas.

• Too many cattle herded in the same area

• Planting too much of one crop and farming it repeatedly over a large area

• Mass cut of trees in forested area reducing wildlife and causing erosion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

What is Land Management?

• Land management in which current needs are met without hurting future generations.

• Soil, water, animals & plants used in the production of goods to meet changing human needs.

• How the use of land resources is controlled.

What is Sustainable Development?

• Land management in which current needs are met without hurting future generations.

• Soil, water, animals & plants used in the production of goods to meet changing human needs.

• How the use of land resources is controlled.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

What is Land Resources?

• Land management in which current needs are met without hurting future generations.

• Soil, water, animals & plants used in the production of goods to meet changing human needs.

• How the use of land resources is controlled.

What are forces that tear down Land Masses. Examples are rain and wind erosion

• Destructive

• System

• Energy

• Geology

• Environmental Science

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is the ability to do work or cause change.

• Destructive

• System

• Energy

• Geology

• Environmental Science

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

What is the study of forces changing Earth?

• Destructive

• System

• Energy

• Geology

• Environmental Science

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3