Land Use: The Need and Consequences of Urbanization, Deforestation, Agriculture, and Overgrazing

When human activity and natural process damage land to the point it can no longer support the local ecosystem.

• Urbanization

• Erosion

• Land Degradation

• Deforestation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

When wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one area to another it is called

• Erosion

• Desertification

• Deforestation

• Urbanization

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

This image is an example of what type of land degradation

• Desertification

• Deforestation

• Urban Sprawl

• Urbanization

This image is an example of what type of land use

• Residential

• Commercial

• Agricultural

• Recreational

Land that is kept untouched but is used for hiking and other leisure activities

• Transport land

• Agricultural Land

• Residential Land

• Recreational Land

This image is an example of what type of land degradation

• Desertification

• Deforestation

• Urbanization

• Urban Sprawl

Land used for business and/or use of natural resources is called

• Residential Land

• Transport Land

• Commercial Land

• Agricultural Land

Land use for building homes and small communities

• Recreational Land

• Residential Land

• Transport Land

• Commercial Land

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-1

Urban Sprawl is

• large network of roads and train tracks that connect urban and rural areas across the country

• process by which land becomes more desert-like and unable to support life

• replacing forests, fields, and grasslands with houses, roads, schools and shopping area.

• the process by which human activity and natural process damage land to the point that it can no longer support the local ecosystem.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Several factors can lead to land degradation. Which of these activities is least likely to contribute to land degradation?

• Urbanization

• Deforestation

• Poor farming methods

• Using an irrigation system on crops

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4