Chapter 14 Study Guide

How do people us land (name 3 things):

Farmland, forest land , and rangeland

What is an effect caused by increased temperature in a city due to generate and trapped heat?

Heat island

Rural areas contain large areas of __________ and few people.

Open space

Why should rural areas be preserved (saved), even though people live in cities?

They give us food+ ecological services

Rapid expansion of a city into the surrounding countryside is ___________

Urban Sprawl

The movement of people from rural areas to cities is called ____________

Urbanization

The most protected public lands are ____________ areas.

Wilderness

In 1870, the first national park established to protect and preserve the land for future generations was______________

Yellowstone

The first national park in the US's was ___________

Yellowstone

In clear-cutting _________ tree are removed from an area.

all

The process of removing all trees from and area of land is known as _________

clear-cutting

Fire stations, roads, and bridges are examples of ____________________

infrastructure

Many people move to cities in search of ____________________.

jobs

In selective cutting, __________ trees are removed from an area.

old

Where do most Americans live?

urban areas

The clearing of tree from an area without replacing them is known as _____________

Deforestation

Resources produced by natural and artificial ecosystems are called ____

Ecosystem service

_______________ are all the things society builds for public use.

Infrastructure

Most damage to rangeland come from ______________

Overgrazing

Land that is used to graze livestock is known as ____________________.

Rangeland

Regardless of where people live, they are dependent on resources produced in ____________

Rural Areas

List some the part of community that are considered to be infrastructure:

Schools, police station, hospital, roads, and bridge

Cities generate and trap ____________________, causing increased temperatures.

heat

What is reforestation?

replanting trees in an area

As opposed to urban land, ____________________ land contains relatively few people.

rural