TEST ON VOCABULARY - URBANIZATION -2

Slums are urban areas that are ____ populated with substandard housing and very poor living conditions. 

• thinly
• thickly
• crowdedly
• heavily

Due to dumping of sewage from factories in water bodies, water pollution often results ____ of epidemics.

• breakout
• outbreaks
• out breakings
• breaking outs

Overpopulation in urban areas tends to create unfavorable conditions, which may result in ____ of food in developing countries,

• damages
• failures
• shortage
• supplies

It is difficult to quantify the ____ that household waste has on the environment. 

• affect
• effort
• impact
• implication

There has been a rapid migration of ____ people to urban areas for jobs and better living.

• out-skirts
• country
• rural
• suburb

There are several factors at play that have led to the urbanization in India ____ population growth and migration as one of the 2 major factors.

• led to
• came to
• went to
• stop

These days, most young people would like to look for _____ jobs rather than secure ones.

• long-term
• well-paid
• fast-growing
• long-lasting

People migrate to urban areas on a massive _____ for many reasons.

• scale
• level
• extent
• number

The rural areas are said to suffer from the lack of natural resources as well as _____ weather conditions.

• rigid
• extreme
• poor
• worsened

The map of top ten most densely ____ countries in the world includes Monaco, Singapore, Bahrain, Malta and Bangladesh.

• populated
• populating
• population
• popular