Areas on the outskirts of cities where people build shacks from corrugated metal, hunks of plastic, scrap wood, cardboard, and other scavenged building materials, or live in rusted shipping containers and junked cars, are called ____.

A. suburbs
B. sprawls
C. exurbs
D. urban heat islands
E. shantytowns


Answer: E

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