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Chapter 20 | Population, Urbanization, and the Environment 469
a. Delhi
b. New York
c. Shanghai
d. Tokyo
9. What led to the creation of the exurbs?
a. Urban sprawl and crowds moving into the city
b. The high cost of suburban living
c. The housing boom of the 1980s
d. Gentrification
10. How are the suburbs of Paris different from those of most U.S. cities?
a. They are connected by public transportation.
b. There are more industrial and business opportunities there.
c. They are synonymous with housing projects and urban poor.
d. They are less populated.
11. How does gentrification affect cities?
a. b. c. d.
12. What a.
b. c. d.
They become more crowded.
Less affluent residents are pushed into less desirable areas. Traffic issues, including pollution, become worse.
All of the above
does human ecology theory address?
The relationship between humans and their environments
The way humans affect technology
The way the human population reduces the variety of nonhuman species The relationship between humans and other species
13. Urbanization includes the sociological study of what?
a. Urban economics
b. Urban politics
c. Urban environments
d. All of the above
20.3 The Environment and Society
14. The “tragedy of the commons” is a reference to what?
a. b. c. d.
15. What a.
b. c. d.
a. b. c. d.
17. What a.
b. c. d.
18. What a.
b.
Global warming
African landowners
The common grazing lands in Oxford The misuse of private space
are ways that human activity impacts the water supply? Creating sewage
Spreading chemicals
Increasing radioactivity
All of the above
16. Which is an example of environmental racism?
The fact that a disproportionate percentage of people of color live in environmentally hazardous areas Greenpeace protests
The prevalence of asbestos in formerly “whites only” schools
Prejudice similar to racism against people with different environmental views than one’s own
is not a negative outcome of shoreline dredging? Damaged coral reefs
Death of marine life
Ruined sea grass beds
Reduction of human population
are the two primary methods of waste disposal? Landfill and incineration
Incineration and compost