Urbanization and the Environment Review

Increasing public transit is one way to get people in a metropolitan area to drive less. What is public transit?

• A network of buses, trains, and other vehicles used for moving passengers.
• not allowing people to build developments on farmland
• replacing an abandoned factory with a new apartment building
• when all the 7th graders get in Ms. Dodor's beetle and go to Taco Bell

What 2 factors contribute to an increase in sprawl?

• Population growth and per capita land
• Population decrease and land increase
• Population staying the same and urbanization
• Urban and rural

What is NOT an environmental cost of urbanization?

• storm water runoff
• Industrial byproducts
• vehicle congestion 
• More green energy

Wal-Mart is opening in the small town of Vado, New Mexico. This is creating over 400 jobs in the area. Population is quickly increasing. This is an example of...

• Urbanization
• Inflation
• Urban Center
• Influence

Based on the graph, which area is the coolest temperature?

• downtown
• rural
• suburban residential
• park

Spreading of urban developments on undeveloped land near a city 

• Rural Sprawl 
• Urban Sprawl 
• Amer ican Sprawl 
• Town Sprawl

Noise such as traffic and construction is considered...

• Pollution
• Transportation
• Annoying
• Rural

What did NOT lead to the increase in urbanization?

• Population decrease
• Population growth
• Industrialization
• Moving from farming to industry

What is Urban Sprawl?

• Slow growth in an urban area, decreasing in resources
• Population decrease in an urban area
• The rapid growth of an urban area, increasing development in urban areas

Urban areas function as centers of

• employment
• education
• health care
• all of these