1.1.1 Vocabulary: Rise of the Megacities

A chance to do or experience something good is considered a(n) ...

• traffic

• opportunity

• expert

• pollution

Answer explanation

Cesar Chavez provided farmworkers an opportunity to improve their lives.

FIELD provides students an opportunity to better their livelihood through the career education pathways.

The cars, trucks, and other vehicles using a road is called ...

• pollution

• expert

• traffic

• opportunity

Someone who has a lot of skill in or a lot of knowledge about something is called a(n) ...

• expert

• pollution

• opportunity

• traffic

Damage caused to water, air, and land by harmful materials or waste is called ...

• opportunity

• traffic

• pollution

• expert

Land that is not in towns or cities and may have farms and fields is called a(n) ...

• capital

• modern

• population

• countryside

The most important city in a country or state; where the government is is called the ...

• population

• capital

• countryside

• modern

Answer explanation

The capital of California is in Sacramento. This is a picture of the capital building just after sunset, near dusk.

The number of people living in one place is called a(n) ...

• population

• modern

• countryside

• capital

Something designed and made using the most recent ideas is considered ...

• countryside

• population

• capital

• modern