1) Describe the multiplier effect as it relates to the population growth of urban units.

2) Briefly describe the urban land use patterns predicted by the concentric zone, sector, multiple-nuclei and peripheral models of urban development. Which one, if any, corresponds to the growth and land use patterns of the community most familiar to you?

3) How has suburbization damaged the economic base and the financial stability of the central city?

4) Why are metropolitan areas in developing countries expected to grow larger than many Western metropolises by the year 2015?

5) What are primate cities? Why are primate cities in the developing countries overburdened? What can be done to alleviate the difficulties?

6) How are the concepts of ecosystem, niche and food chain related? How does each add to our understanding of the "web of nature?"

7) Briefly describe the hydrologic cycle. How do population growth, urbanization and industrialization affect that cycle?

8) What kind of landforms has excavation produced? Dumping? What are the chief causes and effects of subsidence?

9) Briefly describe the chief ways that humans affect plant and animal life. What is meant by biological magnification?

10) Using the I= PAT equation, discuss how the environmental impacts a society has varies from country to country?