Land review

1. What is a set of policies and activities related to potential uses of land that is put in place

before an area is developed?

• infrastructure

• urban sprawl

• ecosystem services

• land use planning

1. What describes an area of open land that is often used for farming?

• infrastructure

• wilderness

• urban

• rural

1. What is the rapid spread of a city into adjoining suburbs and rural areas?

• heat island

• rural

• urban sprawl

• urban

What describes an area that contains a city?

• urban

• rural

• urbanization

• wilderness

1. What is an increase in the ratio or density of people living in urban areas rather than rural

areas?

• urbanization

• ecosystem services

• infrastructure

• land use planning

1. What is an area in which the air temperature is generally higher than the temperature of

surrounding rural areas?

• infrastructure

• geographic information system

• heat island

• wilderness

1. What was known as the time period between 1950 and 1970 when increases in crop yields resulted from the use of new crop varieties and the application of modern agriculture techniques?

• the industrial revolution

• ecosystem services

• genetically modified organisms

• the green revolution

_______________is the process by which human activities or climatic changes make arid or semi-arid areas more desert-like

• desertification

• ecosystem services

• Genetically modified organisms

• infrastructure

1. The cultivation of a single crop in a given area is known as __________________.

• desertification

• ecosystem services

• monoculture

• polyculture

__________________ is farmland that can be used to grow crops

• arable land

• land use planning

• overgrazing

• urban