Impacts of Urban Growth
selling newspaper, shoe polish, taxi driver, street vendors, etc.
Four pull factors for urbanisation
Job opportunities, better housing, safety, better education, better health care
The point where the great stress and pressure below the Earth's surface reach breaking point
the focus
Definition of lava
the semi molten magma that escapes to the Earth's surface.
The big flow that moves the tectonic plates
convection current
What is squatter settlement?
An area which become the home to the poorest people, with lack of amenities, which they do not own - illegal for them to stay there.
Four push factors of urbanisation
loss of farm work, natural disaster, poor education, poor healthcare, poverty, malnutrition, etc
The shock waves sent out from the focus cause the surface of the Earth to shake and break, which spread in ... around the epicentre
concentric circle
It is the type of composite cone volcano, the most deadly of all volcano types.
strato-volcano
What is plate boundary?
The edge of a tectonic plate where earthquakes, volcanoes and fold mountains are formed or take place
Two efforts from the authorities to improve people's life at the squatter settlement.
offering low-interest loan, using site and service schemes, using self-help schemes, giving legal ownership, investing and creating greater opportunities in rural areas.
Four reasons why people leave rural areas in LEDC
loss of farm work, natural disaster, poor education, poor healthcare, poverty, malnutrition, etc
The difference between focus and epicentre
focus: the location of the source of an earthquake below the ground (or the origin)
epicentre: the location at the Earth's surface above the focus or origin of an earthquake.
On of the characteristics of shield volcanoes which is related to its shape.
flatter, less violent, less damaging
They are the plates which become the main reason of many earthquake and volcanic activity in Indonesia
Eurasia and Indo Australian Plates
Four examples of urban problem in Cairo
people built their house illegally on farmlands by the river Nile; built their houses among the tombs of Old Cairo; travel to work time can be very slow, many drivers are aggresive; jobs for unskillled workers are hard to find, low salaries for those who graduated from university, the air is heavy polluted, groundwater is polluted,
Four attractions of urban ares for people who live at the countryside
Job opportunities, better housing, safety, better education, better health care
People who study earthquake and its impacts
seismologist
The three types of volcanoes classified from the frequency of their eruption.
active, dormant and extict volcanoes
The activity of this plate boundary types will create earthquake and strato-volcanoes
convergent boundary
Explain how building dormintory towns around the city could help solving the urban problems of Cairo
To attract people to move from the squatter settlement to a cheap housing with better facilities
Suggest two ways how the rural people end up in urban areas when the reality hit them.
Living in squatter settlement, working in informal sector.
The earthquake can affect places located hundred of kilometer away due to ...
shock waves sent from the focus
What is strato-volcano?
This type of volcano has steep sides as a result of viscuous acid lava which cools quickly. Rocks are also thrown out of the volcano, known as volcanic bombs
This type of boundary is also called conservative since no crust is created or destroyed.
transform / conservative plate boundary