E.S.: C8 LAND
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- A method of harvesting trees in which all of the trees are removed from land area; as opposed to Selective Cutting
- What is Clear-Cutting?
- Clearing trees from an area without replacing them.
- What is Deforestation?
- The necessary structures, including roads, buildings, bridges, and sewers that a society builds for public use.
- What is Infrastructure?
- Determining the location of homes, businesses, and protected areas before area is developed.
- What is Land-Use Planning?
- Solid substance found in nature that consists of a single element or compound.
- What is a Mineral?
- Minerals that have economic value and are useful to humans in some way.
- What are Mineral Sources?
- A method of mining in which large holes are dug in the ground to remove material such as ore, sand, gravel and building stones.
- What is Open-Pit Mining?
- Rock that contains minerals.
- What is Ore?
- Damage to grassland caused by too many animals eating in a limited area.
- What is Overgrazing?
- The process of restoring land to the condition it was in before mining operations began.
- What is Reclamation?
- The process of replacing trees that have died or been cut down.
- What is Reforestation?
- A method of harvesting only middle age or mature trees individually or small groups.
- What is Selective Cutting?
- The method of mining in which huge machines clear away Earth's large surfaces as in phosphate mining.
- What is Strip Mining?
- A low density development that is spread out through cities.
- What is Suburban Sprawl?
- A condition in which more people live in a city than its infrastructure can support.
- What is Urban Crisis?
- The movement of people from rural area to cities.
- What is Urbanization?
- The designated natural area where the land and the ecosystem it supports and protects.
- What is the Wilderness?