Conserving Land And Soil Reading Quiz
8 Questions
| Total Attempts: 120
Questions and Answers
- 1.How much of Earth's surface is dry land?
- A.
1/2
- B.
Less than 1/4
- C.
1/3
- D.
Less than 3/4
- 2.What are the major types of land use? (check all that apply)
- A.
Agriculture
- B.
Maintaining Forests
- C.
Mining
- D.
Development
- 3.How much of Earth's land can be farmed?
- A.
Less than 1/3
- B.
1/2
- C.
More than 1/3
- D.
3/4
- 4.Soil erosion is caused by _____ _____ _____.
- A.
Wind and water
- B.
Pigs and corn
- C.
Gravel and sunshine
- D.
Water and snow
- 5.True or False? Land that cannot be farmed is due to the land being too dry, too wet, too salty, or too mountainous.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.When the soil becomes less fertile, it is called
- A.
Starving of resources
- B.
Malnourished
- C.
Nutrient rich
- D.
Nutrient depletion
- 7.What is Desertification?
- A.
A city in Arizona
- B.
The degradation of Land so it can no longer support human life
- C.
The process of becoming desert (as from land management or climate change)
- D.
New legislation some politicians are proposing
- 8.The process of restoring an area of land to a more natural, productive state is call _____________.
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