Answer to Question 1
Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Define what is characterized as a rural area
2. Describe how the automobile has changed the livelihood of urban residents by allowing them to live in one place and work in another.
3. Describe how work has shifted from focusing on farming, ranching, and mining and has moved to include furniture making and producing mobile homes.
4. Close with a discussion of how these shifts have impacted work roles that were once similar throughout the community and now have become more varied.
Answer to Question 2
Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Describe how poverty is concentrated in urban areas and how this also creates an environment for certain diseases to be concentrated in these areas.
2. Describe how poor city dwellers are more likely to die from preventable illnesses and how chronic conditions often go untreated.
3. Illustrate how the lack of health insurance can impact families.
4. Close with a discussion of how the exodus of urban hospitals impacts the quality of health care available to urban residents.
The wolf spider, Lycosa godeffroyi, is common in many areas of Australia. In this family of spiders,
Areas of Referred Pain, Posterior View
Spinal cord—levels of injury; A, areas of sensory function (dermatomes); B, areas of motor function.
5 Auscultatory Areas
Rural versus Urban Population, 1820–1860
Pneumonia patient’s chest x-ray. Note the irregular areas of density.