Land Use
by Olive Smith
1. Agriculture
1.1. source of lots of food
1.1.1. wheat
1.1.2. rice
1.1.3. potatoes
1.2. require large fields less than 1/3 of world can be farmed
1.2.1. too wet
1.2.2. too dry
1.2.3. too salty
1.2.4. too mountainous
1.3. created by clearing,
1.3.1. forests
1.3.2. wetlands
1.3.3. irrigating deserts
2. Mining
2.1. the removal of nonrenewable resourses from the land
2.2. Located
2.2.1. underground
2.2.2. in a tunnel
2.2.3. in a shaft
3. Development
3.1. good soil with a source of fresh water
3.2. these places became
3.2.1. towns
3.2.2. cities
3.3. they invented
3.3.1. roads
3.3.2. houses
3.3.3. buildings
3.3.4. dams