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10.2 Sprawl

How Sprawl Occurs

1. Fill in the table with a description of each pattern of sprawl.

Pattern of Sprawl / Description
Uncentered commercial (strip) development
Low-density single-use residential development
Scattered (leapfrog) development
Sparse street network

2. Describe one negative and one positive viewpoint of sprawl.

3. What are the two major contributors to sprawl?

4. What is meant by per capita land consumption?

5. Why has per capita land consumption increased?

Impacts of Sprawl

6. Why does sprawl tend to result in greater use of fossil fuels?

7. How does sprawl affect public health?

8. Explain how city centers are affected economically when people move out into the
sprawling communities.

9. Complete the following paragraph with terms from the word bank.

The impacts of sprawl on and pollution are related. Because people
in sprawling communities drive more due to limited public transportation options, they use
more . emissions from vehicles increase,
contributing to air pollution and global . Transportation-related
pollution also includes motor oil and road salt runoff from roads and parking lots. This runoff
contaminates waterways, which poses risks to and human health.