10.1 Land Use and Urbanization

__________ refers to the vegetation and manufactured structures that cover land

• land area

• land cover

• land mass

• land use

Land use is when ​ (a)   activities that occur on land and are directly related to the land.

• human
• invasive species
• urban
• pollution

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NGSS.HS-LS2-7

Which is NOT a type of pollution?

• light pollution

• noise pollution

• rock pollution

• air pollution

​ (a)   the shift of ​ (b)   from a rural area (country) to an urban area.

• Urbanization
• population
• urban
• rural
• pollution

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Which U.S. land cover has the highest and lowest percentage respectively?

• Forest and Barren

• Agriculture and Barren

• Forest and Ice & Snow

• Agriculture and Ice & Snow

​ (a)   helped people to stop farming because of a surplus of food.

• Industrial Revolution
• Transportation
• Urbanization

Match the following

• light pollution

• 
• noise pollution

• 
• Land Preservation

• 
• Urban Heat Island

• 

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

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Another word for rural area is the _____________.

City's ​ (a)   are much ​ (b)   their land areas because they draw their resources from far away.

• ecological footprints
• greater than
• less than
• efficiency
• heat island

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

People in ​ (a)   are closer together, so delivery requires ​ (b)   fuel and time.

• cities
• less
• towns
• more