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Rural Decline
Urbanization
Haves and Have Nots
100
The overall level of comfort and well-being of a group of a country.
What is standard of living?
100
A major population center made up of a large city and the smaller suburbs and towns that surround it.
What is a metropolitan area?
100
Only about ______percent of land in Mexico is suitable for farming.
What is 15%?
100
There is not enough _______ or housing for the city's growing population.
What is land?
100
Poor people with little money and few possessions.
What are the have nots?
200
A run-down apartment building.
What is a tenement?
200
Worsening economic conditions in the countryside, including rising unemployment and growing poverty.
What is rural decline?
200
Most of the best land is held by.
What are wealthy owners?
200
In recent years migration from rural areas and the number of children in the average family has ________.
What is decreased?
200
The poorest of the have nots are the recent _______ to the city.
What are migrants?
300
A developed area at the edge of a city that is mainly homes.
What is a suburb?
300
The unequal distribution of wealth or resources over a geographic area.
What is spatial inequality?
300
In 1950 more Mexicans lived in _______areas.
What is rural?
300
One of the city's worst problems is.
What is air pollution?
300
Some of the working poor live in cinder- block homes with metal or tar covered roofs, while others live in large ___________.
What are tenements?
400
An overcrowded, dirty area of a city where the housing is usually in very poor condition.
What is a slum?
400
The movement of people from rural to urban areas, resulting in the growth of urban areas.
What is urbanization?
400
Today, around _______percent of all Mexicans live in cities.
What is 75%?
400
A thick blanket of _____ hangs over the city.
What is smog?
400
The haves are members of Mexico City's ________ and ________ classes.
What are middle and upper?
500
A sizable area of privately owned property with a large house.
What is an estate?
500
These are large farms held in common by groups of farmers.
What are communal lands?
500
Faced with rural decline, many farmers choose to migrate to the city hoping for a _______ standard of living.
What is higher?
500
Many city residents suffer from asthma and other illnesses due to.
What is poor air quality?
500
Many live on large castle-like _______.
What are estates?
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