Misc
The population of Malaysia is 106.91 people/km. Is this considered dense or sparse?
What is sparse?
This region has the fastest growth rate
What is Africa?
The spread of a city into surrounding rural or natural land.
Urban Sprawl
The process of turning drylands into desert.
What is Desertification?
A very large urban area with more than 10 million people.
What is a Megacity
Someone leaves their country because of governmental corruption, this is called a migration (blank) factor
What is push
This measures the number of deaths in a population, scaled to its size, per unit of time
What is death rate?
This city aims to be the “greenest city in the world”?
Rising sea levels are mainly caused by this
What is melting ice from glaciers and expanding warm water?
The maximum number of people an area can support without running out of resources.
Carrying capacity
Someone moves their children to a new country for educational opportunities, this is called an immigration (blank) factor
Pull factor
This type of land will allow for active farming and population growth
Which country is known for its solar settlements and wind farms?
Germany
This is the difference between weather and climate
Weather is temporary, changing, climate is an average of weather over hundreds of thousands of years
This is a process whereby local sea level rise, strong wave action, and storms wear away rocks, soil, and sand along the coastline, causing the shore to retreat inland
What is coastal erosion?
Energy that comes from naturally replaced sources (solar, wind).
What is Renewable Energy?
Name three things that affect the growth rate a of a population
What are: death rate, birth rate, education, Migration, etc.
Any individual, group, or organization with a direct or indirect interest in how a specific piece of land is used, managed, or developed
What is a stakeholder?
This physical process can create fertile soil but also destroy settlements?
Volcanoes
This is the number of people who live near volcanoes
What is a half a billion?
A linear population means people live...
In a line, usually near a coast or a body of water
As education in a country goes up, this goes down
What is the birth rate?
Describe two human factors that influence where people live
What are religious, economic, political?
In terms of warmer temperatures, what is one possible positive and one possible negative consequence of warmer temperatures
Varied answers
Positive: More places to live
Negative: Transportation more difficult
Explain physical processes and give an example
What is, any naturally occurring change on or in Earth, such as an earthquake?