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Environmental Damage from Urban Sprawl

Q01.4 2 marks

Study Figure 1 in the resources booklet, ‘England’s housing challenge’.

Figure 1 – England’s housing challenge (part 2 of 2)
Figure 1 – England’s housing challenge (part 2 of 2)

Figure 1 – England’s housing challenge (part 2 of 2)

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Figure 1 – England’s housing challenge (part 2 of 2)

Give two ways urban sprawl can damage the environment.

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  1. 1 Gives one valid, specific environmental damage caused directly or indirectly by urban sprawl.
  2. 2 Gives a second distinct valid environmental damage.

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1. Building over countryside removes vegetation and destroys habitats, reducing biodiversity. 2. Extra road traffic from a spread-out settlement increases air pollution and greenhouse-gas emissions.

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Urban sprawl causes pollution and makes places less attractive.

Pollution is not qualified by type or cause, and the second phrase is not a separate specific environmental damage.

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