Study Guide--Unit 4: Urbanization

Name:

__________________
Define and describe the following:
1.Urban

2.Suburban

4. What does it mean to commute?

5. Define Urbanization.
6. List the 4 major causes of urbanization:
A.
B.
C.
D.
7. List the 6 major consequences of urbanization & explain:
A
B
C
D
E
F
8. List the 6 major ways that humans alter the environment:
A
D
B
E
C
F
9. Why is the ozone layer important?
10. What do chlorofluorocarbons destroy?

3.Rural

11. Name the 3 fossil fuels:

A.
B.
C.
12. What can cause water pollution?
13. Why are forests important?
A.
B.
C.
A way in which
people alter the
environment
Desertification

Air Pollution

18.___________
________________
Deforestation

22.Urban __________

Definition

Specific causes

14.When land _______

___________________
___________________
16.
A. ________--a thick haze
of ______ & ______
B. Acid Rain-_____________
C.___________ (or CFCs)
chemicals that destroy
the ___________

15.People cutting down

__________ & __________
livestock
17.
A. ______________________
________________________
B. ______________________
________________________
C. ______________________
________________________
________________________

Human-caused warming

19.Burning
_______________
________________________
21. Trees are cut to
create _____ land, to
raise _______, and to sell
the _________.

20.Cutting down
__________ without
__________________.
(Trees produce _______
for us to breathe &
absorb ___)
23.Humans
______________
_______________________
causing loss of
____________ &
______________areas

25. What is the loss of topsoil?What is

used to prevent the loss of topsoil?
27. What can cause water pollution?

Cities expanding due to

increased populations.

26. What can cause acid rain?