Often reading a book, newspaper, or simply turning your attention to events broadcast on television, you can hear words that seem familiar, but their meaning remains incomprehensible to the end. These terms include: execution, escalation, estrogen and many others. In this article we will analyze such a popular word as landscape. The term cutting hearing can often be heard in conversations and seen in articles of diverse content.
What is landscape?
From textbooks on geography, you can find out that the landscape is a single, specific area taken in a certain area of the globe. This complex has its own unique name. The nature of its origin is different. As well as the immediate purpose of its use. What could be the landscape? This is the use of the complex for agricultural purposes (cultivating cultivated plants and trees), this is the construction of various facilities (settlements, factories, etc.), etc. Therefore, all these territorial areas are divided by type.
Types of landscapes
Depending on the location, on the purpose of use and on the nature of the appearance of landscapes are divided by species and subspecies. So, for example, by origin, these complexes are differentiated into natural and man-made. It is believed that these types of sites have a huge impact on the environmental situation in the world.
Natural landscape and its subspecies
Natural landscape - it is a land complex that was formed as a result of natural processes and which in no way was affected by the human mind. In turn, this species is divided into three subspecies:
- A geochemical landscape is a site that has been singled out as a whole, based on the uniformity of its composition, as well as the number and characteristics of the chemical elements that make up it. Moreover, one of the indicators of the stability of such a complex with respect to external influences is the rate and method of accumulation of mineral and organic substances, as well as the time spent on self-cleaning of this natural unit.
- The next type of landscape is elementary. If the site has a similar soil type, flora of a uniform nature, equal depth of groundwater and rocks of the established type, then this is the named type of landscape.
- An excellent example of the third link is the Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Belarus. The landscape map of this species is characterized by the absence of any artificial changes. The prohibition (or the establishment of strict regulations) on the conduct of economic activity of any kind in any natural territory joins this site to the group of protected complexes or landscapes.
However, to date, scientists around the world believe that there are no truly preserved natural corners on land. Anthropogenic areas predominate here. However, the latter are sometimes amazingly natural.
Anthropogenic landscapes and their subspecies
Anthropogenic landscape is a site once natural natural origin, which over time was subject to economic impact. This group includes the following zones:
- An agricultural or agricultural complex, on the territory of which the plant world is represented to a greater extent by cultivated plants and their garden comrades.
- Man-made landscape - that area that has traces of powerful human impact (industrial emissions, destruction or change of land cover and others).
- Urban - this is a complex that includes territories with buildings, gardens, parks and artificial lakes, etc.
There is another type of landscape that harmoniously combines two of these main types - cultural.
Currently, the creation of artificial complexes with similar properties of the elements contained in them is gaining more and more development. These include patent, business, nano and other landscapes.