Exam 14: Environment and Urbanization

__________cities in the future will not only experience the loss of an affluent population but also many high-tech industries.

Like all organisms, human exist within the__________ - a think layer of air, soil, and water surrounding the earth.

Suburbs mostly continue to be so-called bedroom communities-places where people live but from which they commute to the nearby large cities to work.

In the last two decades limited methods have been used to bring environmental problems under control in the United States.

According to the functionalist perspective, urbanization is in response to

Polluting the environment and depleting its natural resources may amount to a slow form of suicide.

Rich nations such as the United States and Western European countries contribute to two-thirds of global warming

If every U.S. home paid its bills online, the switch would eliminate greenhouse-gas emissions by 2.1 million tons a year.

Housing segregation in the United States is due to all of the following, EXCEPT for

Jenny is a single, 25-year-old accountant. She lives in the city because it is convenient to her work and because of the cultural benefits it offers her. Herbert Gans would most likely describe Jenny as