Key learning 1.

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How are biomes used?

1 What are the different ways that biomes and materials within them are used (including
plants and animals)?

Humans would use the resources they have and form infrastructure and mobility with the
resource they have around them. Depending on the environment, you could herd some
native animals and grow crops that can suit the environment or that is native to the region.

Biomes used to produce food, industrial materials and fibres

2 Explain the main reasons that humans adapt biomes.

Biomes are sources of materials that could be produced for food, clothing, shelter and
energy. Humans can produce more and make use of their surrounds so they can benefit
from the surrounding environments. Humans then get comfortable with the climate and learn
how to resource gather in the environment, so they adapted to the biomes.

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3 Describe the spatial distribution of the world’s agricultural production.

Most countries are commercial subsistence, mixed crops, and livestock. These countries are
mostly well developed and main sources of trading. Most remote areas have little to no
agriculture and are used for nomadic herding. Most of the ocean's water have been also
used for large scale commercial fishing.

4 Explain the difference between using biomes for commercial purposes and
subsistence purposes.

Subsistence purposes are used to provide and sustain just enough for a family. Commercial
purposes are enough to provide food for a large group of people.

5 Define nomadic herding and identify areas where it is used.

Nomadic herding is when nomads herd their livestock such as yaks, cattle or sheep to areas
with fresh green pastures for the animals to graze. Nomadic herding is used in areas like
Tundras, Taigas and deserts

6 Explain the difference between intensive agriculture and extensive agriculture.

 Intensive agriculture is a farm that uses a small area for high monetary value. Extensive
agriculture is large land mass for mass production of crops and livestock, these
productions require few inputs of labour.

Geographic skills

7 Explain the term small scale.

The term small scale that refers to a small map can be anywhere between a city or small
community.

8 Explain the term large scale.

The term large scale that refers to a large map can be anywhere to a country or continent.

9 Identify whether a world map is an example of small or large scale and explain why or
why not.

A world map is an example of a large-scale map as a world map shows all the earth in a flat
2d form and it shows all the earth’s oceans and continents. The world map has time zones
for all the countries as well.

10 Identify whether a street map is an example of small or large scale and explain why or
why not.

A street map is an example of a small-scale map as it doesn’t show the entire country or city
and it doesn’t show that much detail of a large-scale area, so it's considered small.

11 Use the internet to find two photographs, one being small scale and the other being
large scale.

(Small scale map)

(Large scale map)