Question

B. State whether true or false. If false, correct

the statement
1. Land under agriculture is less in India
than in the UK
2. Planned land use helps in its optimum
utilisation
3. It takes ten years to get a 2-3 cm thick
layer of soil.
4. The minerals present in the soil depend
upon the type of the parent rock
5. Laterite soils are found in the Himalayan
region.​

Answer 1

Answer:

The focus of this entry is land use for agriculture. But we are also studying other uses of land, including land required for human settlement.

Agriculture is a major use of land. Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture. The extensive land use has a major impact on the earth’s environment as it reduces wilderness and threatens biodiversity.

Reducing the consumption of resource-intensive products and increasing the productivity of land makes it possible to produce food with much smaller inputs and reducing the impact on the environment.