Chapter 5, Lesson 3

Minerals that can be mined for a profit are ______.

Select what most land in the United States is used for.

• Cities

• Agriculture

• Grasslands

• Manufacturing companies

• Forests

Forests are cut down today for _____, paper products, and wood products.

Many of the products we use daily come from minerals.

• True

• False

Why is land considered to be a resource?

• It is needed for landfills.

• It is easily restored when polluted

• It is used to grow crops and mine minerals.

_ is one way the government manages land wisely.

• Clearing forests for lumber.

• Strictly controlling logging.

• Encouraging massive development.

The removal of large numbers of trees from an area is called composting.

• True

• False

_ land helps protect ecosystems and manage forest resources.

• preserving

• growing

• fertilizing

• composting