Regions and Land Use

What is A City?

• Larger than a town or village

• Usually has a downtown area

• Has a residential area

Mount Pleasant

What is a county?

•Much larger than a City

• Contains multiple cities within

Isabella County

What is A State?

• Large area that contains many counties

• People live here for ongoing periods of time

Michigan

Country

• Very large area of land

• Contains many states

United States

Continent

• Largest area of contained land

• Contains many different Countires

North America

Farming

• Farming uses up the soil of the land

• Large areas are needed

Farmland

City Land

• Use land for roads

• Put up buildings

• Land area used for suburbs

City

• OpenStreetMap Contributers, Mount Pleasant, February 23,2011, Attribution-share alike.

• OpenStreetMap contibuters, Isabella County, February 23,2011,Attribution- Share alike.

• OpenStreetMap contributers, Michigan, February 23,2011, Attribution- share alike.

• OpenStreetMap Contributers, North America, February 23,2011, Attribution-share alike.

• Emdot, Train perspective, March 2,2011, Attibution• Benny Lin, City of Toronto, March 2,2011, Attribution