Rural Environments Are Natural Ecosystems That Are Exploited By Human Activities
Overview
Every meal you have eaten began in a rural environment. Behind the shelf label sits a biome with its own climate, soils and vegetation, and a farming system that has reshaped that biome to produce food. This topic asks you to hold both pictures at once: the natural ecosystem, and the human system layered on top of it.
You will map the world's major biomes and learn what makes each one distinctive, sort the goods and services ecosystems provide into categories examiners recognise, and classify farming systems along three axes: arable or pastoral, commercial or subsistence, intensive or extensive. By the end you should be able to look at any farm in any country and place it accurately on all three.
Objectives
- Distributions and characteristics of the world's biomes (tropical, temperate and boreal forests, tropical and temperate grasslands, deserts and tundra)
- Examples of goods and services provided for people by natural ecosystems (timber, tourism, food, energy, water resources, health services, natural protection, and climate regulation)
- How humans use, modify and change ecosystems and rural environments to obtain food through farming systems (arable/pastoral, commercial/subsistence, intensive/extensive)
Lesson Note
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Lesson Evaluation
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Use this evaluation section as an opportunity to reinforce your understanding of the topic and to identify any areas where you may need additional study. Don't be discouraged by any challenges you encounter; instead, view them as opportunities for growth and improvement.
- Which biome is characterised by permafrost, mosses and lichens, and a complete absence of trees? A) Boreal forest B) Tundra C) Temperate grassland D) Hot desert Answer: B
- Which of the following is an ecosystem service rather than an ecosystem good? A) Timber cut from a boreal forest B) Fish caught from a mangrove creek C) Carbon storage in peat soils D) Charcoal made from savanna woodland Answer: C
- A 12,000 hectare Australian sheep station is run by four workers with very low inputs per hectare. How is it best classified? A) Intensive pastoral B) Extensive pastoral C) Intensive arable D) Extensive arable Answer: B
- Why are tropical rainforest soils generally infertile? A) The climate is too cold for decomposition B) Nutrients are stored in the biomass and leached from the soil by heavy rain C) There is too little rainfall to weather the bedrock D) Permafrost prevents roots from reaching nutrients Answer: B
- Which biome contains the deep, humus-rich chernozem soils that support large-scale commercial wheat production? A) Tropical grassland B) Temperate grassland C) Tropical rainforest D) Boreal forest Answer: B
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