Land Use

People moving from the rural areas to cities is called...

• Ruralization
• Urbanization
• Colonization
• None of these

Noise such as traffic and construction is considered...

• Pollution
• Transportation
• Annoying
• Rural

urban areas are often warmer than the surrounding rural areas because

• changes in surface to less reflective ones
• tall building can block wind movement
• increased airconditioner use and low level pollution increase trapped heat
• All of these

Which is NOT a strategy to increase a city's sustainablity

• reduce reliance on fossil fuels
• increase/improve greenspace
• increase recycling rates
• build more shopping malls

what is the leading cause of deforestation?

• Diseases 
• Housing market
• Agriculture and Farming
• Paper mill

What is a "heat island"?

• an island in a river or lake that produces heat
• an area in which the air temperature is generally higher than the temperature of surrounding rural areas
• when the leftovers or "tailings" from mining are piled up in a river
• an oasis

What causes urban heat islands?

• movement of people from farms to cities
• lots and lots of people heating their homes
• roads and buildings absorb and retain heat longer than vegetation does
• soil erosion

What are common practices that lead to overgrazing?

• grazing cattle instead of sheep and goats
• getting into conflicts with neighbors over grazing rights
• using sheepdogs instead of human shepherds
• too many animals, lack of rotation, grazing at wrong times in plant life cycle

What is deforestation?

• throwing someone out of a window
• selectively cutting trees for lumber, making sure the forest remains healthy
• allowing more animals to graze on the land than it can support
• cutting and removal of rainforest

What are impacts of overgrazing?

• pollution and use of more resources
• loss of biodiversity, loss of native topsoil, desertification
• more people than the infrastructure can support
• creation of heat islands