An apple is sliced into pieces to model the amount of agricultural land being used on Earth while students track data on a pie chart.

Students will be able to:

• • Describe Earth’s geography in terms of relative amounts of water, inhospitable land, habitable land, and land being used for farming.
  • Apply knowledge of fractions to create a pie chart showing how the features of Earth’s surface are divided.
  • Identify two reasons why protecting agricultural land and maintaining healthy soil is important for food production.
  • Describe at least two ways people can help preserve agricultural land.