WorksheetsCh. 10 Savas Environmental Urbanization
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 57mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Where do most of the people in the US live?
a)
80 % in cities
b)
80 % in the country
c)
20% in the woods
d)
25% by beach
2.
What is urbanization?
a)
When people move from urban to rural areas
b)
When people move from the lake to the forest
c)
When people move from rural areas to urban areas
d)
When people work in factories more than farming
3.
What did NOT lead to the increase in urbanization?
a)
Population decrease
b)
Population growth
c)
Industrialization
d)
Moving from farming to industry
4.
What is NOT an environmental cost of urbanization?
a)
storm water runoff
b)
Industrial byproducts
c)
vehicle congestion
d)
More green energy
5.
What 2 factors contribute to an increase in sprawl?
a)
Population growth and per capita land
b)
Population decrease and land increase
c)
Population staying the same and urbanization
d)
Urban and rural
6.
What is NOT an impact of sprawl?
a)
Transporation: little to no public transportation
b)
Decreased pollution because of decreased driving
c)
Land use: Less land left as open space
d)
Economics: Wealth in suburbs, and urban areas more poor
7.
What would happen to the land of the US if we were to spread out the people that live in the cities?
a)
Less land and resources
b)
More land and resources
c)
More land
d)
Nothing everything would stay the same
8.
Increasing public transit is one way to get people in a metropolitan area to drive less. What is public transit?
a)
A network of buses, trains, and other vehicles used for moving passengers.
b)
not allowing people to build developments on farmland
c)
replacing an abandoned factory with a new apartment building
d)
when all the 7th graders get in Ms. Dodor's beetle and go to Taco Bell
9.
Which is a positive effect of urban sprawl?
a)
there are more affordable houses
b)
increased pollution
c)
destruction of habitats
d)
more taco bells (this one's not the right answer, but it is true)
10.
Spreading of urban developments on undeveloped land near a city
a)
Rural Sprawl
b)
Urban Sprawl
c)
Amer ican Sprawl
d)
Town Sprawl
11.
What is the number one reason for city growth?
a)
better housing
b)
jobs
c)
cheaper food sources
d)
more transportation options
12.
Suburban sprawl is the marriage of which two terms
a)
urban and suburban
b)
suburbanization and sprawl
c)
suburb and urban sprawl
d)
urban sprawl and urbanization
13.
Worldwide, settlement patterns are becoming more
a)
urban
b)
rural
14.
Up not out is an idea associated with
a)
smart growth
b)
open space plans
c)
urban revitalization
d)
greenways
15.
Cities have both negative and positive effects on the environment.
a)
True
b)
False
16.
Cities can reduce their environmental footprint by implementing which of the following?
a)
Green roofing
b)
Rain Gardens
c)
Trains
d)
All of these
17.
Noise such as traffic and construction is considered...
a)
Pollution
b)
Transportation
c)
Annoying
d)
Rural
18.
Cities become known as _____________ because they heat up and cool down faster than their surrounding areas.
a)
hot spots
b)
heated lands
c)
heat islands
d)
hot islands
19.
Based on the graph, which area is the coolest temperature?
a)
downtown
b)
rural
c)
suburban residential
d)
park
20.
Wal-Mart is opening in the small town of Vado, New Mexico. This is creating over 400 jobs in the area. Population is quickly increasing. This is an example of...
a)
Urbanization
b)
Inflation
c)
Urban Center
d)
Influence
21.
Urban areas function as centers of
a)
employment
b)
education
c)
health care
d)
all of these
22.
What was the primary motivation behind rural-to-urban migration?
a)
steady employment
b)
plentiful land
c)
religious freedom
d)
fear of crime
23.
Which is a negative effect of urban sprawl?
a)
new, affordable homes
b)
more farmland
c)
destruction of habitats
d)
more people pass their geography quiz
24.
What is Urban Sprawl?
a)
Slow growth in an urban area, decreasing in resources
b)
Population decrease in an urban area
c)
The rapid growth of an urban area, increasing development in urban areas
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