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Dependence on the automobile has led to suburban residents driving more than twice as much as people who live in cities. Between 1950 and 2000, the number of vehicle miles traveled per person in U.S. suburban areas tripled. Because suburban house lots tend to be significantly larger than urban parcels, suburban communities also use more than twice as much land per person as urban communities. Urban sprawl tends to occur at the edge of a city, often replacing farmland and increasing the distance between farms and consumers. -Andrew Friedland, Rick Relyea, and David Courard-Hauri, Environmental Science: Foundations and Applications Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button. When food-producing farmland around cities is replaced by residential homes, farm products must travel farther to market. Population density in suburban areas is lower than in urban areas. Suburban residents use more land and drive further than residents of urban areas.