APES CHAPTER 22 SUSTAINABLE CITIES
Pollution from cities rarely affects surrounding regions.
False
________ is measured as the percentage of the people in a country or in the world living in urban areas.
Urbanization
Which of the following factors is an environmental advantage to urbanization?
a reduction of stress on surrounding wildlife habitats
Urban sprawl typically occurs ________ a city or town.
along the edges of
Bicycles offer all of the following advantages for transportation except that when compared to cars they
are more expensive.
The largest source of outdoor air pollution is
automobiles.
A cluster development provides which of the following?
concentrations of high-density housing units
The ultimate goal of any green movement is to
decrease the human ecological footprint.
Urban growth tends to occur more slowly in ________ countries.
developed
Cheap and available land around cities results in
dispersed cities.
Currently, most land-use planning practices encourage
economic development.
Urban areas can grow in all of the following ways except
emigration.
Most cities have huge ecological footprints as shown by their
high waste output.
In the United States, many environmental problems have
improved.
Smart growth promotes all of the following ideas except
increasing dependence on cars.
Urban populations are generally
increasing.
Areas dominated by tenements and rooming houses where several people might live in a single room are known as
slums.
In most developing countries, cars tend to benefit
the affluent minority.
Rapid-rail transit systems are most effective for
traveling among cities.
When it comes to weather, cities are generally ________ than surrounding areas.
warmer
