?Match the term with the correct description.

A. ?areas dominated by dilapidated tenements, or rooming houses where the rooms are often small and numerous and where several people might live in a single room
B. ?shacks built from corrugated metal, hunks of plastic, scrap wood, cardboard, and other scavenged building materials, or rusted shipping containers and junked cars
C. ?areas where people take over unoccupied land without the owners' permission, simply because it is their only option for survival
D. ?any unwanted, disturbing, or harmful sound that damages, impairs, or interferes with hearing, causes stress, raises blood pressure, hampers concentration and work efficiency, or causes accidents
E. ?in central cities, the enormous amount of heat generated by cars, factories, furnaces, lights, air conditioners, and heat-absorbing dark roofs and streets raises temperatures


A. ?slums
B. ?shantytowns
C. ?squatter settlements
D. ?noise pollution
E. ?urban heat island

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