Environmental Chapter 14 Test Review Part 1

What is the term for the movement of people from rural areas to cities?

• Land-use planning

• infrastructure

• urban sprawl

• urbanization

Unplanned, rapid urban growth can create what problem?

• Degradation of the ecosystem

• Elimination of invasive vegetation

• Infrastructure that cannot adequately support the population

• Rangeland damaged from over grazing

Which of the following statements generalize population distribution changes over the last 20 years?

• Urban areas have doubled in size in 200 year?

• More people lived in rural areas 200 years ago.

• Population distribution has not significantly changed in 200 years.

• Undeveloped countries have seen the most changes in 200 years.

Which of the following is an important aspect of land management?

• increasing the overall size of the herds

• leasing public lands from the federal government

• reducing damage to land caused by overgrazing

• removing fences from rangeland to allow livestock more grazing area

Which of the following is true of parks and preserves?

• They are not affected by air and water pollution

• They serve as sources of wood for industries

• They provide limited hunting of designated wildlife

• They provide recreation for people

One benefit of preserving farmland is

• increased in carbon dioxide production

• increased urban temperatures

• increased crop production

• increased urban sprawl

In cities, traffic jams, substandard housing, and pollution can be the result of

• urbanization

• urban sprawl

• urban crisis

• infrastructure

What can be done to sustain the productivity of rangeland?

• Limit herd size

• Eliminate invasive plants

• leave the land unused for a time

• all of the above

Heat islands can affect local

• weather patterns

• water levels

• traffic patterns

• harvest patterns

When forests are not replanted after trees are cut, natural resources

• increases

• decrease

• regenerate

• remain unchanged