Urbanization and the Environment

Where do most of the people in the US live?

• 80 % in cities
• 80 % in the country
• 20% in the woods
• 25% by beach

What is urbanization?

• When people move from urban to rural areas
• When people move from the lake to the forest
• When people move from rural areas to urban areas
• When people work in factories more than farming

What did NOT lead to the increase in urbanization?

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

What is NOT an environmental cost of urbanization?

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

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 impact of sprawl?

• Transporation: little to no public transportation
• Decreased pollution because of decreased driving
• Land use: Less land left as open space
• Economics: Wealth in suburbs, and urban areas more poor

What would happen to the land of the US if we were to spread out the people that live in the cities?

• Less land and resources
• More land and resources
• More land
• Nothing everything would stay the same

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

Which is a positive effect of urban sprawl?

• there are more affordable houses
• increased pollution
• destruction of habitats
• more taco bells (this one's not the right answer, but it is true)

Spreading of urban developments on undeveloped land near a city 

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