Unit 10 vocabulary

The condition of the air based on the amount of pollution in it

• Air quality
• Communal lands
• Metropolitan area
• Pollution

Land that is held in common by a group of people; also called ejidos

• Communal lands
• Estates
• Pollution
• Rural

A sizeable area of privately owned property with a large house

• Estates
• Metropolitan area
• Rural
• Rural Decline

A major population center made up of a large city and the smaller suburbs and towns that surround it

• Metropolitan area
• Pollution
• Rural Decline
• Slums

Damage to the natural environment caused by harmful substances; also refers to harmful substances

• Pollution
• Rural
• Slums
• Smog

Found in or living in areas that are not close to cities

• Rural
• Rural Decline
• Smog
• Spatial inequality

Worsening economic conditions in the countryside, including rising unemployment and growing poverty, it drives migration to cities

• Rural Decline
• Slums
• Spatial inequality
• Standard of living

An overcrowded, dirty area of a city where the housing is usually in very poor condition

• Slums
• Smog
• Standard of living
• Suburbs

A haze in the air caused by pollution, especially the exhaust from cars and other vehicles

• Smog
• Spatial inequality
• Suburbs
• Tenements

The unequal distribution of wealth or resources in a geographic area, so that some places are richer than others

• Spatial inequality
• Standard of living
• Tenements
• Urban