Definitions
Human activities occurring on land; farming, recreation
land use
2 benefits drawing people to the cities during the Gilded Age
low skill factory jobs, cheap housing, fresh start
Cramped, multiple families, dirty, poor ventilation, susceptible to fire...problems of ????
housing
Time period of urbanization
Industrial Revolution
This organ can dissolve razor blades.
stomach
What do you call a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.
An Immigrant
This is a reason white farmers were drawn to North & Midwestern cities during the Gilded Age.
industrialization replaced the need for Southern farm hands or abundance of low skill jobs
lacked adequate disposal, human and animal sewage in gutters...problems of ????
Sanitation
Part of urban population often subjected to more pollution.
Poor
This animal has 3 hearts & blue blood.
octopus
reducing the amount of resources needed in a city...water, land, food
efficiency
This is a reason why African Americans were drawn to Northern & Midwestern cities during the Gilded Age.
escaping economic hardship, social discrimination, & economic oppression in the South...also abundance of low skill factory jobs
Overcrowding made this problem very easy. Immigrants were also easy targets for being taken advantage of.
Crime
main cause of heat islands; dry, impermeable surface
pavement
This is hotter than the surface of the sun.
lightening bolt
area of a city in which the temperature is elevated in relation to the surrounding area
heat island
Movement of the Gilded Age providing help for the urban poor via charity & Christian morals.
The Social Gospel Movement
expensive, inefficient, delays, congestion, accidents...all problems of ????
Transportation
food, water, fuels: rural areas supply to urban areas
imported resources
This planet orbits the sun every 247 years, longer than any other planet in the Solar System.
Neptune
services, facilities, & installations needed for the functioning of a community
infrastructure
Movement of the Gilded Age teaching immigrants English, civics, and customs helping them to assimilate into American culture
The Americanization Movement
lacking systems, abundance of bacteria, sickness due to this problem
Water
measures the demand for natural resources by individuals, populations, or products
ecological footprint
Fastest growing plants in the world...35in. in a day
bamboo