Geography Land Use

1. Geography

Land Use
Year One
Geography | Year 3 | Land Use | How Land Is Used For Farming | Lesson 6

2.

How Land Is Used
For Farming

3.

Aim
• I can explain how land is used for different types of farming.
Success Criteria
• I can list different types of rural spaces.
• I can explain what most rural land is used for in the UK.
• I can compare maps of different agricultural areas.
• I can explain why an area is suited to crop or livestock farming.
• I can describe ways farming has changed since 1950.

4. Which Is There More of in the UK?

urban
towns and cities
rural
countryside/farmland
So what do we use all our rural space for?

5. How Is Rural Space Used in the UK?

6. How Is Space Used for Farming?

Find a topographical map of the UK in your atlas.
Compare it to the crop and livestock maps.
Map courtesy of Captain Blood (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons

7. How Has Agricultural Land Use Changed?

2010

8.

Aim
• I can explain how land is used for different types of farming.
Success Criteria
• I can list different types of rural spaces.
• I can explain what most rural land is used for in the UK.
• I can compare maps of different agricultural areas.
• I can explain why an area is suited to crop or livestock farming.
• I can describe ways farming has changed since 1950.