Urban Explosion
City Challenges
Hyderabad, India
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Vocabulary
100
What was the first city to have a population of more than 10 million people?
What is New York City
100
How many many people do cities gain a week?
What is one million
100
What is the population of Hyderabad, India?
What is more than 5 million
100
What is the population of Sao Paulo?
What is more than 18 million?
100
Not pretty
What is Ugly
200
How many cities will have a population of 10 million or more in 2015?
What is 21
200
What is another word for contamination of the air and water?
What is pollution
200
What is Hyderabad doing to improve people's lives?
What is planting trees and parks
200
Why do many people who work in the center of Sao Paulo, live outside the city?
What is the housing is cheaper
200
Full of color
What is colorful
300
60% of the world's population will live in cities in which year?
What is 2030
300
In the last sentence of paragraph 1, what does the expression THESE PROBLEMS refer to?
What is high housing costs, pollution and crime
300
What does IT in line 6, of paragraph 2 refer to?
What is air
300
What does THEY in line 5 of paragraph 3 refer to?
What is urban planners
300
One of the parts of the city where people live
What is a NEIGHBORHOOD
400
What kind of problems will people in big cities face?
What is housing, pollution and crime
400
Will a house in a small city be MORE or LESS expensive than a house in a big city?
What is LESS expensive
400
What does THEY in line 8 of paragraph 2 refer to?
What is the streets of Hyderabad
400
What does THIS ISSUE in line 5 of paragraph 3 refer to?
What is heavy traffic
400
Another word for repair or solve
What is FIX
500
What will be three of the largest cities in 2015?
What is Tokyo, Dhaka and Mumbai
500
What do you think the expression URBAN PLANNERS means?
What is people who plan cities
500
What is one advantage of planting trees?
What is they remove pollution OR make the streets more colorful OR provide a place for people to relax and exercise OR they reduce crime
500
Why are urban planners building better subways?
What is to help with the heavy traffic
500
An underground railroad
What is a subway
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