Urban Geography Review

This is the rapid, often poorly planned spread of development from an urban area outward into rural areas

• urban sprawl
• metropolitan area
• rural fringe
• whooping cough

Which is a negative effect of urban sprawl?

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

What do the dark spots on this population density map represent?

• urban cores
• metropolitan areas
• Somerset, Wisconsin
• public transit systems

What part of the metropolitan area is A pointing to?

• urban core
• urban fringe
• rural fringe 
• metropolitan area

What part of the metropolitan area is B pointing to?

• urban core
• rural fringe
• urban fringe
• mitochondria

What part of the metropolitan area is C pointing to?

• rural fringe
• urban fringe
• urban core
• cell membrane

What part of the metropolitan area is a suburb most likely to be located in?

• the rural fringe
• the urban core
• the urban fringe
• no

Toronto’s Official Plan encourages infill instead of urban sprawl. Which of these is the best  example of infill?

• getting a cavity filled in at the dentist
• eating ALL THE SWEETS
• replacing an abandoned factory with a new apartment building
• outfill

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)