Lecture 3. Natural conditions as a factor in the development of human society
Plan:- The concept of natural conditions and their characteristics The influence of natural conditions on life and economic activity people Adverse and dangerous natural phenomena
- extreme territories (polar regions, high mountainous areas high latitudes, etc.); uncomfortable territories - areas with harsh natural conditions, unsuitable for the life of a non-indigenous, unadapted population; are subdivided into cold humid ( arctic deserts, tundra), arid areas (deserts and semi-deserts), as well as mountainous areas; hypercomfortable territories - areas with limited favorable conditions for the resettlement population; subdivided into boreal (forests temperate zone) and semiarid (steppes of the temperate zone); precomfortable territories - areas with slight deviations from the natural optimum for the formation of a permanent population; comfortable territories - areas with almost ideal environmental conditions for the life of the population; typical for the southern part of the temperate zone, etc.
Lecture 4. Mineral resources: placement and problems of rational use
Plan:- The concept of natural resources Mineral resources Ecological and economic protection strategy mineral resources
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1.the subject and tasks of the economy of social and cultural services and tourism 2
AbstractThe provision of services is a widespread activity. Almost any person is engaged in it. The simplest services: helping someone in their daily life, providing useful information(information) - do not require special knowledge and training.
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Instructional-methodological letter on the peculiarities of teaching the foundations of sciences in general educational institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the 2006-2007 academic year Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Instructive and methodological letterINSTRUCTIVE-METHODOLOGICAL LETTER about the peculiarities of teaching the foundations of sciences in general educational institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the 2006-2007 academic year
Lesson 11. Influence of human economic activity
on nature
Goals: To acquaint students with the main factors of human influence on nature. Give the concept of the ecological situation. Formulate an idea of the sustainable development of Russia. Develop the ability to defend your opinion and listen to your comrades.
Equipment: Physical, political and administrative map of Russia. The film "We have one land".
During the classes
II. Homework check
Check homework for §8 (study A., self-assessment questions).
In a group of 4, one student answers a question and three listen to it. The teacher can also walk up to any group and listen to the answers.
Check the progress of the work on the contour map.
Check the completion of the creative task (landscape drawing).
In what climate can a dwelling have such a roof?
b)
Answer : a) humid climate; b) arid.
In what climatic conditions can the orientation of the windows be like this?
What kind of dwelling can be built in an earthquake-prone area, and what on permafrost?
Answer : a) on permafrost; b) on moving parts of the earth's crust.
The human consumption rate of fat is 35% in ...Answer : a) tundra; b) in the steppe; c) in the desert.
This arrangement of dwellings can be:
Answer : a) in the mountains; b) on the plain.
A dwelling made of raw (adobe bricks) is called ...Answer : a) adobe hut; b) saklya; c) yurt.
What type of home can be transported when moving?Answer : a) plague; b) saklyu; c) a needle; d) a yurt.
III. Learning new material
Nature and man are interconnected, interact with each other. A person not only adapts to natural conditions, but also uses natural resources in economic activities, influencing nature, changing its quality. We use soil, minerals, seize vast areas of land for cities, roads, quarries, etc.
Conversation lesson plan :
Repetition of what was learned about environmental pollution in grade 8.
Question : What sources of pollution do you know?(Emissions industrial enterprises, soil contamination with pesticides, improper plowing of slopes, fuel combustion, etc.)
Definition of the concept of "ecological situation".
Most often, a person does not think about the consequences of his influence on nature. And then the quality of the environment deteriorates, and as a result, his health suffers. Scientists believe that human health is 20% dependent on the environmental situation.
Writing in a notebook
Ecological situation - it is the state of the natural environment in a given area.
Assessment of the ecological situation from the point of view of the conditions of human life. (Analysis of table. 1, p. 38, section A.)
According to the degree of criticality, they distinguish satisfactory, crisis, conflict, crisis, disastrous and catastrophic environmental situations.
Question : How to assess the potential environmental situation in a particular region of Russia?(The level of economic development can indirectly indicate the ecological situation: the developed central areas Russia have a more unfavorable ecological situation than the poorly developed regions of Siberia and Of the Far East... The higher the population density, the worse the ecological situation. The more "dirty" enterprises have accumulated in a certain area, the higher the level of pollution. Neighboring countries that have an unfavorable environmental situation can also have an impact on the environmental situation.) Which countries can be sources of air pollution in Russia?(Students should remember that in temperate latitudes western transfer air masses and pollution from countries Western Europe extends to the territory of countries of Eastern Europe and Russia.)
Let us consider examples of the impact of the environmental accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (Ukraine) on neighboring countries... The wind carried the radioactive cloud to Belarus and the Baltic republics, the radioactive background also increased in the countries of Scandinavia (Finland). The ecological situation in Chernobyl was characterized as emergency. The consequences of this accident have affected people's health for many years.
Question : How to avoid such environmental situations?
Sustainable development.
To ensure environmental safety, a state strategy for Russia's transition to sustainable development has been developed. Sustainable development is possible if we understand the close relationship between society and the environment.
Question : Do you think our society is ready to develop morally according to the program of sustainable development?
Exercise.
Find in the text of the textbook (study A., p. 39) the ways of sustainable development:/. Resource-saving technologies.
2. Successful social and economic development of Russia (without crises, progressive).
Improving the quality of life of the population.
The international cooperation.
IV. Anchoring
Is it possible to reduce human needs for natural resources? Explain your answer.
What is the ecological situation?
How is the environmental situation in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant area assessed?
What the sustainable development strategy foresees.
In the city of Asbestos (in the Urals), people suffer from asbestosis due to the high concentration of mineral fibers in the air - asbestos or mountain flax - which are mined in quarries near the city.
Homework
By uch. А .: §9, answer questions.
What are the features of the ecological situation in your area?
What are the reasons affecting the ecological situation in your area?
Self-assessment questions (p. 39).
Book: Geography / Butter
Influence of human economic activity on natural conditions and natural resources
Under the influence of human economic activity, changes occur in the natural components of landscapes. During the construction of cities, roads, dams on rivers, the extraction of minerals, the relief is disturbed. Improper soil treatment leads to their water and wind erosion, flat washout. The plowing of steppes, meadows, deforestation, and drainage of bogs affect the species composition of vegetation, and, consequently, the animal world: natural groupings of plants are replaced by cultural ones (fields, gardens, vineyards), the species composition of animals is depleted. Changes in these landscape components affect climate and water.
The influence of the economic development of the territory of Ukraine on its natural conditions and resources was unequal in time and in different natural areas... Already the people of primitive society, who were engaged in hunting and gathering wild fruits and berries, influenced natural landscapes. Later, in the Neolithic period (VIII-IV millennium BC), the population increased, it could no longer be content with hunting wild animals and gathering plants. Agriculture and animal husbandry began to develop. Tripoli culture (IV-II millennium before
n. BC) agricultural influence spreads in the forest-steppe zone, where arable farming developed, as well as in the zone mixed forests where agriculture prevailed. Farming was preserved here yes late XIX Art. It led to the construction of forests on a large part of the Ukrainian Polesie. The development of crafts in the 17th-19th centuries also influenced the decrease in forest cover in Polesie and in the forest-steppe. (smelting of metal from bog ores, production of glass, potash).
Until the end of the 18th century. the meadow steppes of the forest-steppe zone were mainly plowed up and the agricultural development of the steppe landscapes of Ukraine began. It was accompanied by the construction of natural steppe vegetation, which led to a decrease in soil moisture and drying up of the steppes, and therefore, from the second half of the XIX v. in the steppe zone of Ukraine, droughts, dust storms, wind erosion, etc. are observed. Development of lands with steep slopes, improper plowing contributed to the formation of ravines, drying up of small rivers, silting of lakes, groundwater... The agricultural influence on the landscapes of Ukraine is predominant, and it is they that determine the radical transformations of natural landscapes. In their place, in the process of agricultural nature management, agricultural landscape complexes (natural agricultural, land reclamation, pasture) were formed. Agricultural use accounts for 80% of the land fund of Ukraine: forest-steppe, steppe landscapes are plowed up by 75-85%.
On arable land, water and wind erosion develops, which is accompanied by the washing away of the humus horizon, blowing out, backfilling of winter crops, orchards, vineyards, forest belts, canals, roads. Water erosion is currently manifested on an area of 12 million hectares. Every year up to 3 thousand hectares of land are destroyed by ravines. In steppe landscapes, through extensive farming technology, the loss of humus over the past 20 years is 1.5-2.5% in the arable layer.
In the zone of mixed forests of Ukraine, arable land occupies about 40% of the land fund, there are few of them in the mountainous regions of the Ukrainian Carpathians - 16.8, in Crimean mountains- 21.4% of the land fund.
The agricultural influence is most manifested through agricultural technology and land reclamation, which are responsible for the decrease (increase) in the level of groundwater. Significant factors of agricultural impact are watering, liming, cultivation and sanding of land, the introduction of a contour or strip farming system, the creation of forest plantations. The influence of drainage reclamation is noticeable in the zone of small forests, in some parts of the Forest-steppe. There drainage reclamation is combined with chemical, phyto-reclamation and cultural and technical measures (overseeding of grasses, replacing shrubs with meadows, etc.). In the forest-steppe and steppe landscapes of Ukraine, irrigation regulates their water
thermal and salt regimes, with accompanying unfavorable processes (rising of readily soluble salts, subsidence, flooding). Almost all eroded lands have been covered by lisomelorative measures, shelter, near-level and near-bank forest belts have been created, pasture slopes, mountainous and elevated slopes have been patched, continuous and solid afforestation of sands, areas along canals, around water bodies has been carried out. However, reclamation measures do not always give the desired effect. Thus, the drying up of lands in the zone of mixed forests is accompanied by a decrease in the level of groundwater in the territories adjacent to amelioration systems, negative changes in the hydrological regime - the shallowing of rivers and lakes.
In the steppe zone, excessive irrigation leads to secondary salinization of fertile lands, their flooding and waterlogging. Improper use of mineral fertilizers and pesticides disrupts the natural cycle of substances and degrades the quality of agricultural products. Due to the imperfect technology of fertilizing and cultivating the soil, plants are able to assimilate only 50% of their amount, the rest are washed off by surface runoff, enters underground and surface waters, increases their mineralization. The toxic chemicals used during the cultivation of crops are mostly toxic to living organisms, harmful to human health. Pesticides are a potential source of pollution of soil, surface and ground waters, air. They can be the cause of pathological changes in the human body.
Significantly affect environment large livestock complexes, their waste due to imperfect storage technology falls along with wastewater into rivers, lakes, soils.
Industrial enterprises, construction and operation of power plants, mining, etc. have a great influence on natural conditions. The result of this impact is primarily chemical pollution, which accounts for more than 80% of the total volume of pollution. The main pollutants are enterprises of the fuel and energy complex, metallurgy, chemical industry, mechanical engineering, military-industrial complex, building materials industry, food industry, utilities, transport.
The concentration of enterprises of the fuel and energy complex in certain regions of Ukraine is very high. This leads to significant air pollution in large cities where they are located, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, their average annual content in many industrial cities is 2 or more times higher than the maximum permissible concentration (MPC). Among the emissions from thermal energy, the main ones are: sulfur dioxide - 63%, nitrogen oxide - 33, particulate matter - 30%.
The influence of metallurgical production on natural conditions and the state of the environment is clear in areas
where mining and processing enterprises are combined with metal production enterprises. A technogenic overload of the environment is observed here. This is, for example, the Donetsk-Dnieper region, which contains about 5 thousand metallurgical, chemical, energy, machine-building, mining and other industrial enterprises. Due to this, more than 70% of carbon and nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons, and sulfur dioxide get into the atmosphere. That is why the surrounding middle of the cities of the Donetsk-Dnieper region is the most polluted among the cities of Ukraine. In Donetsk, Gorlovka, Yenakiyevo, Dnepropetrovsk, Alchevsk, Krivoy Rog, Dzerzhinsk, Kramatorsk, Zaporozhye, Lugansk, Mariupol, the level of pollution exceeds the average in Ukraine. V atmospheric precipitation In this region, sulfates, nitrates, nitrogen, chlorine, sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium bicarbonates have been identified. Metallurgical production affects the quality of surface and ground water, domestic and industrial water supply.
Chemical plants emit sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds, etc. into the atmosphere. Enterprises for the extraction and processing of sulfur, potash (Carpathian region) and table salt (Donbass), brine Sivash (Crimea), as well as those that produce nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers (the cities of Donbass, Vinnytsia, Sumy, Odessa) pollute the environment.
The atmosphere, surface and ground waters significantly pollute enterprises machine-building complex in the cities of Donbass and Dnieper (Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Krivoy Rog, Kramatorsk, Mariupol). Particularly dangerous for humans are carcinogenic substances of enterprises of the electrical industry, machine tool and instrument making, Vehicle and etc.
The military-industrial complex has a negative impact on the environment. This applies, first of all, to the basing areas and a large concentration of missile, aviation, tank and other military units (the Black Sea region, Crimea, the Black Sea, etc.). Thus, the content of oil products in the Sevastopol Bay is 180 times higher than their maximum permissible concentration, and the Black Sea Fleet is capable of dumping 9 thousand cubic meters of untreated wastewater into the sea per day. In some areas of military locations, the environment and people especially suffer from the pollution of soil and groundwater with oil products (Belaya Tserkov, Vasilkov, Uzin, Dubno, Velikaya Krucha, Ozernoe, Chuguev). Radiation from powerful radar stations has a negative impact on human health. In the process of training, military maneuvers, the landscapes allocated for training ranges, shooting ranges, training centers, tank training grounds, etc. change significantly.
The relief, soil, vegetation cover, the level of groundwater, the state of the atmospheric air change under the influence of the extraction and production of building materials. Landscapes are disturbed in places of extraction of granites, diabases, labradorites, rubble stone, crushed stone, sand, clay in Zhytomyr, Vinnitsa, Kirovograd, Dnepropetrovsk and other regions. The enterprises of the cement industry, which are especially numerous in Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, and Kharkov regions, pollute the environment with dust, nitrogen oxides, and sulfur dioxide. At the same time, the content of dust in the air exceeds the maximum permissible concentration by 5-10 times. Imperfect technology for the production of bricks, slate, expanded clay and other building materials significantly degrades the environment.
The existing system of urban and rural settlements in Ukraine has a significant impact on landscapes. The area occupied by settlements, industrial and transport buildings, is more than 5% of its territory. The construction of cities is accompanied by a radical transformation of natural landscapes, pollution of the atmosphere by emissions from industrial and municipal enterprises, and changes in the quality of surface and ground waters. In the course of construction work, hillocks are removed and low relief forms are filled in, soil is often washed over for construction sites. During urban development, soil and vegetation cover, surface runoff conditions, and the microclimate of the area change. Urban and road construction can intensify erosion and landslide processes. This causes the need for protective measures: the creation of retaining walls, gentle turf slopes, forest plantations, etc.
Utilities are also one of the factors that affect the state of the environment and human health. There is a problem with the disposal of household waste. Under the influence of natural factors, they decompose, and toxic ingredients pollute surface and ground waters, air, and soil. The most widespread method of processing household waste and still remains incineration, as a result of which the air is polluted with harmful substances. In economically developed countries, integrated waste processing technologies are used, which not only reduces the negative impact on the environment, but also provides economic profit and the ability to preserve valuable natural resources.
One of the most important problems is the treatment of domestic and industrial wastewater. 3.9 billion cubic meters are discharged into water bodies annually. Unfortunately, existing methods provide 95-96% wastewater treatment. However, this is often not enough. And an increase in the degree of purification dramatically increases the cost of treatment facilities. In most industries
the cost of treatment facilities is very high and ranges from 5 to 30% of the cost of equipment and facilities. According to observations, most of the wastewater is discharged without treatment in cities such as Mariupol, Zaporozhye, Kiev. With wastewater, thousands of tons of organic matter, oil products, suspended solids, as well as a lot of phosphorus, ammonium nitrogen, and iron get into the environment.
The state of the environment in Ukraine is greatly influenced by transport. 70% of total air emissions major cities accounted for by vehicles. So, each car, and in Ukraine more than 1 million trucks and 2.5 million cars, consumes annually from 12 to 30 tons of high-octane gasoline mainly Russian production... In this gasoline, the lead content reaches 0.36 g / l (in Great Britain and Germany - 0.15, USA - 0.013 g / l). Diesel fuel of Russian and domestic production has a large percentage of sulfur - 0.5% (in the USA - 0.05%). In addition, when 1 ton of diesel fuel is burned, 16-18 kg of soot is released into the atmospheric air.
Rail transport is more environmentally friendly, especially when electric traction is used. During accidents, a significant negative impact can be railroad when many toxic substances enter the environment at the same time.
Water transport threatens the environment if the technology for the transportation of environmentally hazardous substances is not followed. So, a tanker accident can lead to significant pollution of the water area and coast. Vessels with nuclear power plants pose a great danger. With regard to air transport, the greatest danger is posed by military aircraft and ground handling systems. Fuel residues with toxic impurities enter the soil and groundwater. Oil pipelines and gas pipelines, which stretch across the entire territory of Ukraine, are environmentally hazardous in case of accidents on them.
They affect landscapes and structures of waterworks, canals, amelioration irrigation and drainage systems. They regulate river flows, redistribute water resources, and improve conditions for growing crops. In Ukraine, drained land is 2.9, irrigated - 2.3 million hectares. Large tracts of irrigated land in Dnepropetrovsk, Nikolaev, Odessa, Kherson regions, Crimea, drained - in Kiev, Zhitomir, Rivne, Volyn, Lvov regions (Fig. 119). In the zone of mixed forests, it is necessary to prevent overdrying of peatlands and bogs by regulating the level of groundwater and the water regime in the fields. In the irrigated fields of the Steppe, it is important to prevent secondary land salinization. To do this, it is necessary to carry out drainage work everywhere, to standardize watering depending on the state of the soils and plants that are grown on them.
The creation and operation of hydraulic structures (reservoirs, canals), deep quarries not only changes natural systems, but also affects the state of the natural environment in large regions. So, about 690 thousand hectares of land were flooded by the reservoirs of the Dnieper cascade, and ZO% of their area is shallow water with a depth of up to 2 m.This leads to the loss of agricultural land, affects the ecological conditions of reservoirs (their hydrochemical and thermal regimes change, blue-green algae, which take oxygen from the water, which leads to the death of fish) and adjacent territories (an increase in groundwater causes salinization of lands in the steppe regions).
Man is trying to improve the environment. To do this, she plants eroded lands, mountain slopes, sandy areas with forests, creates plantings along roads and canals, around settlements. The afforestation of the Oleshkovsky sands, which stretch along the Dnieper from Kakhovka to the Black Sea, was effective. Thanks to this, it became possible to place gardens and vineyards there. They also take care of the forest, carry out clear and selective felling of the forest, as well as its planting.
The integrated use of forest resources is based on improving the species composition and age structure of forests, enhancing their environmental and protective functions, and increasing the area of nature conservation objects. Silvicultural, suburban forest landscapes and forest parks are being created.
In areas for recreation and recreation of people, natural CONDITIONS are significantly affected by soil compaction, replacement of natural vegetation with cultural, construction of recreation facilities. This influence is especially noticeable on the Azov-Black Sea coast, in the Ukrainian Carpathians and the Crimean mountains, in the suburban areas of large cities (Kiev, Kharkov, Donetsk, Lvov, etc.).
1. | Geography / Maslyak |
2. | Local time, standard time, daylight saving time |
3. | Section ІІ. PHYSICAL-GEOGRAPHICAL CONDITIONS. NATURAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL Section II. PHYSICAL-GEOGRAPHICAL CONDITIONS. NATURAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL Research of the territory of Ukraine |
4. | Relief |
5. | Paleogeographic conditions |
6. | Minerals |
7. | Seas, surface and ground waters. Water resources |
8. | Soil cover, land resources |
9. | Vegetation and fauna |
10. | Unfavorable physical and geographical processes and phenomena |
11. | Section III. NATURAL COMPLEXES (LANDSCAPES) AND PHYSICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL AREA Section III. NATURAL COMPLEXES (LANDSCAPES) AND PHYSICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL AREA |
12. | Physico-geographical zoning |
13. | Section IV POPULATION OF UKRAINE Section IV POPULATION OF UKRAINE Number and density of population |
14. | Natural growth. Age and gender composition |
15. | Settlement system. Urban and rural population |
16. | Population migration |
17. | National composition |
18. | Ukrainian diaspora |
19. | Ukrainian culture |
20. | Labor resources |
21. | Section V. TOPONIMIKA OF UKRAINE Section V. TOPONIMICA OF UKRAINE Toponymy of natural conditions and resources of Ukraine |
22. |
Management, Consulting and Entrepreneurship
Dependence of the location of industries of the national economy on the natural characteristics of the territory. Classification of natural resources and their distribution throughout the country. Natural conditions are understood as the totality of the most important natural characteristics of the territory reflecting the main features of the components of the natural environment or local natural phenomena. The climatic features of the territory are manifested primarily in the ratio of heat and moisture.
- The influence of natural conditions and natural resources on territorial organization societies
The influence of natural conditions on the life and economic activities of people. Classification of the territories of Russia by the level of comfort. Dependence of the location of industries of the national economy on the natural characteristics of the territory. Adverse and dangerous natural phenomena: problems of protecting the population and the economy. Classification of natural resources and their distribution throughout the country. Economic and geographical assessment of natural resources: quantitative, technological, cost.
Natural factors have played and continue to play a major role in the life and development of human society.
The concept of "natural factors" usually includes the following categories: natural conditions, natural resources, landscape sustainability and ecological situation, which we will consider further mainly from the standpoint of management science.
Natural conditions are understood as the totality of the most important natural characteristics of the territory, reflecting the main features of the components of the natural environment or local natural phenomena.
Natural conditions directly affect the life and economic activities of the population. Depends on them: settlement of the population, development and distribution of productive forces, their specialization. They determine the cost and, consequently, the competitiveness of manufactured products, which is especially important for countries with a significant distribution of extreme natural features, including Russia.
Among the components of the natural environment, the characteristics of natural conditions are, as a rule, considered climate, geological environment, surface and underground waters, soils, biota, and also landscapes.
An additional, but very important characteristic of natural conditions is the prevalence of local natural phenomena - unfavorable and dangerous natural phenomena, which include natural disasters and natural foci of infections.
The climatic features of the territory are manifested primarily in the ratio of heat and moisture.
The amount of heat required for the complete completion of the growing cycle (growth period) is called the biological sum of temperatures. Thermal resources determine the vigor of plant growth.
Being the largest country in the world in terms of territory (about 17 million sq. Km), Russia is characterized by a significant variety of climatic conditions. At the same time, it should be emphasized that Russia as a whole is the northernmost and coldest country in the world, which affects its economy, economy, many aspects of the life of the population and politics. The consequence of climatic conditions is permafrost, which covers an area equal to almost 10 million square meters. km.
The specifics of permafrost must be taken into account when creating engineering structures: pipelines, bridges, iron and highways, power lines and other infrastructure facilities.
Moisturizing is manifested primarily in the form atmospheric precipitation is the second most important climatic factor. It is necessary for the entire period of plant life. Lack of moisture leads to a sharp decrease in yield. To identify the conditions of humidification of a particular territory, they operate with indicators of the amount of precipitation and the value of possible evaporation. In Russia, territories with excessive moisture prevail, i.e. excess of precipitation over evaporation.
The most important factors the formation of the natural specifics of the region are the relief and geological structure. Influencing all components of the natural environment, relief contributes to the appearance of differences in landscapes and at the same time itself is affected natural zoning and altitudinal zonality. Engineering-geological conditions of the area reflect the composition, structure and dynamics of the upper horizons of the earth's crust in connection with the economic (engineering) human activities. On the basis of engineering and geological studies, the most favorable places for the placement of various types of economic objects are determined, calculations of the stability of rocks during construction work, processing of banks after filling reservoirs, stability of dams, determine the requirements for the construction of structures in permafrost conditions, excessive moisture surfaces in seismic, karst, landslide areas, etc. Taking into account mining and geological conditions is vital in all spheres of economic activity, but especially in urban planning, transport and hydraulic engineering.
For agriculture and a number of other spheres of the economy, soil conditions are of paramount importance. Soil is a special natural body that forms as a result of the transformation of the surface layer of the earth's crust under the influence of water, air and biota and combines the properties of animate and inanimate nature. The value properties of the soil are reflected in its fertility - the ability to provide plants with assimilable nutrients and moisture and create conditions for harvesting.
In the natural sciences, biota is understood as a historically formed aggregate of living organisms inhabiting any large territory, i.e. fauna and flora of this area. The characterization of the natural conditions of the area also includes an assessment of flora and fauna.
In Russia, the main types of vegetation include tundra, forest, meadow and steppe. Forests have a special place among the different types of vegetation. Their ecological and economic value is high, as well as their unique environment-forming role on the planet.
Natural conditions affect almost all aspects of the daily life of the population, the peculiarities of their work, rest and life, people's health and the possibility of their adaptation to new, unusual conditions. The overall assessment of natural conditions is determined by the level of their comfort for humans. To measure it, up to 30 parameters are used (duration of climatic periods, temperature contrast, climate humidity, wind regime, the presence of natural foci of infectious diseases, etc.)
According to the level of comfort, there are:
- extreme territories (polar regions, alpine regions of high latitudes, etc.);
- uncomfortable territories - areas with harsh natural conditions, unsuitable for the life of a non-indigenous, unadapted population; subdivided into cold humid (arctic deserts, tundra), arid territories (deserts and semi-deserts), as well as mountainous regions;
- hypercomfortable territories; areas with limited favorable natural conditions for the migrant population; subdivided into boreal (temperate forests) and semiarid (temperate steppes);
- precomfortable territories - areas with slight deviations from the natural optimum for the formation of a permanent population;
- comfortable territories - areas with almost ideal environmental conditions for the life of the population; are typical for the southern part of the temperate zone, in Russia they are represented by areas of insignificant area.
Natural conditions are of paramount importance for those branches of the national economy that operate under the open sky. These are agriculture, forestry and water management. Almost all types of construction are highly dependent on natural conditions. The natural parameters of the territory have a significant impact on the organization of municipal utilities.
In the north and in other regions with extreme natural conditions, there is a need to create special technical means adapted to these conditions, for example with an increased safety margin.
A specific form of natural conditions are adverse and dangerous natural phenomena inherent in certain localities (NOA) or natural disasters.
The most common and at the same time dangerous for humans natural disasters include earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes and storms, tornadoes, typhoons, landslides, landslides, mudflows, avalanches, forest and peat fires. Typical examples of unfavorable natural phenomena are droughts, frosts, severe frosts, thunderstorms, heavy or prolonged rains, hail and some others.
Vital in many cases, protection from NOY inevitably leads to a significant increase in the cost of building and maintaining cities and communications; technologies adapted to increased loads or capable of preventing hazardous impacts.
Natural resources are represented by those elements of the natural environment that can be used in the process of material production at this stage of the development of society. They are used to obtain industrial and food raw materials, power generation, etc.
As the basis of any production, they are subdivided into:
- subsoil resources (these include all types of mineral raw materials and fuels);
- biological, land and water resources;
- resources of the World Ocean;
- recreational resources.
On the basis of exhaustion, natural resources are divided into exhaustible and inexhaustible.
Exhaustible resources are subdivided into non-renewable and renewable ones. Inexhaustible natural resources include water, climatic and space resources, and the resources of the World Ocean.
Mineral resources remain an indispensable foundation for the development of any society. By the nature of industrial and sectoral use, they are divided into three large groups:
fuel or combustible - liquid fuel (oil), gaseous (suitable gas), solid (coal, oil shale, peat), nuclear fuel (uranium and thorium). These are the main sources of energy for most types of transport, heat and nuclear power plants, blast furnaces. All of them, except for nuclear fuel, are used in the chemical industry;
metal ores - ores of ferrous, non-ferrous, rare, noble metals, rare and rare earth metals. They form the basis for the development of modern mechanical engineering;
non-metallic - mining chemical raw materials (asbestos, graphite,
mica, talc), building materials (clays, sands, limestones),
agrochemical raw materials (sulfur, salts, phosphorites, and apatites), etc.
The economic-geographic assessment of mineral resources is a complex concept and includes three types of assessments.
It includes: quantification individual resources (for example, coal in tons, gas, wood in cubic meters, etc.), its value increases with the increase in exploration of the resource and decreases j as it is exploited; technological, technical, (reveals the suitability of resources for economic purposes, their condition and knowledge, the degree of exploration and availability) and cost (in monetary terms).
The total cost of explored and estimated mineral raw materials is 28.6 (or 30.0) trillion US dollars, of which one third is gas (32.2%), 23.3 is coal, 15.7 is oil, and the forecast potential is in 140.2 trillion US dollars (structure: 79.5% - solid fuel, 6.9 - gas, 6.5 - oil).
Natural resource potential Russia is distributed unevenly across the territory. The main and most promising sources natural resources are located mainly in the East and North of the country and are remote from the developed regions at very significant distances. The eastern regions account for 90% of the reserves of all fuel resources, more than 80% of hydropower, a high proportion of the reserves of non-ferrous and rare metal ores.
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82122. | Healthy way of life is fashionable | 70.5 KB | |
Meta: Zdijsnyuvati promoting a healthy way of living; to expand that knowledge about the harmful infusion of drugs into alcohol on the body of people. Vykhovuvati among scientists is negatively related to the consumption of alcoholic beverages and drugs that are tyutyunopalinnya, bazhania and vmіnnya to lead a healthy way of life ... | |||
82123. | Green friends | 528 KB | |
And at once we will try to rip up a tree and a man. For a whole range of people, we can get the skin on the yak, the power supply on the yak will give you more information: What is the growth of a tree and a tree? | |||
82124. | Earth is our cosmic dim | 63.5 KB | |
Zakrіpiti and reconsider knowledge of scholars on topics; send a bag of sound robots; visibility of the value of the oceans and vicariousness of their riches by people; take the development of memory, sparing; Vihovuvati is a thrifty approach to natural riches. | |||
82125. | Presentation to the project "Earth is our house" | 41 KB | |
Efforts to live the creation of nature on the planet Earth and biological bags and we need to take care of our Earth because there is only one in space. Svit-mystery to lie under our feet: The shape of the cooler The earth is ours. The axis was violated to the collective robot. The Earth is our sleeping house and also the composition of Ridna. | |||
82126. | Live the word of the poet | 72.5 KB | |
The sound of the music Veduchiy 1 Good day Shanovny friends of the guests Viduchiy 2 Mi vitaєmo you to our school saint Alive the poet's word About the word ridne The noise of the trees Music of the blakitnookikh Shovkovy sleep of sheaves of wide Dnipra among them the left. 1 Artistic word mov ota zhivinka Without new nibi ti I don’t live ... | |||
82127. | O.Butseni "Chi є winter?" | 54.5 KB | |
Meta: read the children of the correct and different reading; expand the scope of education; development of educational interest, sleepy movement, uyavu, sparing; thoroughly read the reading technique; vikhovuvati love until the winter season, seeing the beauty and unique winter nature. | |||
82128. | How birds and animals winter. Caring people for birds and animals in winter | 429 KB | |
Purpose: to teach to establish the relationship between changes in inanimate nature, plant life and animal life; continue to develop the ability to compare animals according to their essential characteristics; classify them; summarize the information received; reinforce teamwork skills ... | |||
82129. | Competitive and promotional program for the first class | 45.5 KB | |
Zhte children orange You will be healthy yak my blue I think you might not want to get vitamins yak at the oranges. The same program for the group Pass the orange Orange trim to the pidboriddy passed to the offensive grave commanders do not help with your hands. Whoever has an orange that leaves the gro. | |||
82130. | HOW ANIMALS AND BIRDS WINTER | 56 KB | |
Equipment: video How animals and birds hibernate painting Winter landscape music Fairy-tale magical winter drawings of birds photo album Animals of Ukraine reference circuits projector computer masks of animals cards for students' independent work map of Dvurechansky district book exhibition. | |||