Urban Land Use

14.2 Urban Land Use

Open Ended

Describe the features that will make a city a pleasant place to live and the features that will make it an unpleasant place to live.

Multiple Choice

The growth of cities is:

• Immigration
• Urbanization
• Depersonalization
• Materialization

Multiple Choice

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

Open Ended

What happens when more people live a city than the infrastructure can support?

Multiple Choice

Traffic jams, substandard housing, and polluted air and water can be caused by rapid growth in cities, a phenomenon known as

• urbanization.

• urban sprawl.

• urban crisis.

• infrastructure.

Multiple Choice

Which is a negative effect of urban sprawl?

• new, affordable homes
• more farmland
• destruction of habitats
• more people pass their geography quiz

Multiple Choice

Cities become known as _____________ because they heat up and cool down faster than their surrounding areas.

• hot spots
• heated lands
• heat islands
• hot islands

Multiple Choice

Heat islands affect local

• traffic patterns

• water levels.

• weather patterns

• harvest patterns.

Multiple Choice

Advanced decisions about how land will be used is more are collectively referred to as...

• land-use planning

• urbanization

• gis (geographic information system)

Multiple Choice

Detailed maps showing the locations of sewer lines, roads, and parks are possible with...

• GPN.

• TOPO.

• GIS.

Multiple Choice

An important environmental benefit of open spaces in cities includes

• contamination of water sources by runoff of soil and animal wastes

• hotter, humid summers due to evaporation of water from plant leaves

• the improvement in air quality resulting from filtering of pollutants by plants.

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

Compared to other greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide is very effective in trapping heat near the surface of the Earth.

• true
• false

Multiple Choice

How were cities built to conserve space?

• Skyscrapers were built

• Tenements apartments were built

• Buildings were built in unique shapes

• All of these happened

Multiple Choice

Cities grew because of all these except:

• Immgration
• Jobs
• Railroads
• Farming

Open Ended

Write 3 things you learned about urban land use from this lesson.