Land Use Notes Continued; Vocabulary Quiz Wednesday!

I'm glad to be back - hope you had a great break!

This week: Tutorial Wed & Thurs
Land & Water Use Vocabulary quiz next class, Wed 1/9 (10pts)

Grades: no more late work accepted after today! 
-I still need to enter your FRQ #3 & #4
-Homework Check #2 was entered before break
-Semester 1 Final: I'll give you a self-check Semester 1 Study Guide so that you can be sure you're on track as we move forward, but...no final exam! We'll continue with our current unit

Continue Unit 4: Land and Water Use 
(notebooks out & open to this page)

Unit Objective: I can analyze the environmental impact of human land and water use by studying land types and uses, water resource management, and biotic resources used for food supply. 

Last week with the sub you should have:
-Reviewed 'Positive Environmental News from 2018'
-Reviewed/studied/categorized vocabulary terms
-Land use brainstorm answers: agriculture, recreation, residential, commercial, transportation
-Completed Bozeman Science 'Land Use' video & questions:
    1. Urbanization is the movement from rural to urban areas.         Down side is more transportation, loss of land, urban                  sprawl, pollution
    2. Most people now live in urban areas (~80% in US as of           2010)
    3. (Two) Ways cities can grow smarter are to create                    walkable neighborhoods, compact building designs, growth        boundaries, and sense of place in the city.
    4. (Three) Types of land preservation are national parks,            wildlife refuges, and wilderness areas.

Let's go back to your notes from last class and add some more key points...

Infographic: Earth's surface area

-71% of the earth's surface is covered in water; 29% is land

-Land cover is the physical and biological material found on the surface of the land, existing as vegetation or the built environment (human-created structures). Land use describes the various ways in which human beings make use of and manage the land and its resources.

-How is that land (a third of the earth's surface) used and impacted by humans? It's difficult to find data on global land use!

-Look at info/graphs on 'Our World in Data' and draw charts in notes

-As of the early 1990s, about 13% of the Earth was considered arable (suitable for growing crops) land, with 26% in pasture, 32% forests and woodland, and 1.5% urban areas (=72.5%)

-USGS Landcover Institute 
-Yale Global Forest Atlas: land use
-Enviroliteracy.org: land use

Stanford Earth Video: Measuring Land Use Change & Human Impact with Technology

Agricultural Land by Global Diets (world data)

Homework: Study for vocabulary quiz on Quizlet!