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Q1.
Social capital refers to the inherited monetary wealth of communities
of people. .
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Q2. The
Rural Exodus syndrome is strongly linked to the Favela syndrome.
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Q3. The
ecological footprint of a city in the developing world is not usually
larger than the actual extent of the city itself.
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Q4. Cities
always have higher temperatures than the rural areas that surround them.
Q5.
Urban heat-island effects are usually greater in
the daytime because the sun is hotter.
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Q6.
Much of the ground cover in urban areas
is impervious.
Q7.
Urban areas influence precipitation rates
as well as other aspects of the hydrological cycle.
Q8.
Water quality in UK cities has tended to
improve over time.
Q9. Landfill
sites are only a problem in terms of contaminated land.
Q10.
Urban areas contain more alien species
than surrounding rural areas.
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Q11.
There are no absolutely safe levels of dioxins.
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Q12.
Sub-Saharan Africa contains most of the world’s grassland ecosystems.
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Q13.
More than 1 billion people worldwide obtain
their drinking water from under the ground.
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Q14. Agroecosystems
have developed from the interaction of humans with nature over many thousands
of years.
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Q15. The
spatial extent of forested areas in the developing world has increased
over the last 25 years.
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