LANDFORMS
The Earth's physical surface features
What is a Landform?
They may form valleys, floodplains and deltas
What is a river?
The breaking down of substances such as rocks or minerals
What is weathering?
Where people establish a permanent community
What is a settlement?
The physical features that make a location unique
What is site?
A landform that can be created through the hardening of lava
What is a plateau?
Human activities that change water systems
What are building dams and irrigation systems?
When rocks are broken down by wind and water and transported from one place to another.
What is erosion?
The different types of areas that people live
What is a rural, urban and suburban settlement?
Things that make you want to leave a location
What is a push factor?
The Earth's surface crust
What is the lithosphere?
Natural processes that change water systems
What is rainfall and erosion?
The study of places and the relationship between people and their environments
What is geography?
The GTA (Greater Toronto Area) is classified as this type of settlement.
What is a clustered settlement?
When towns grow and develop quickly and spread out into larger areas
What is urban sprawl?
What is a mountain?
Where rainfall gathers and eventually flows into a body of water, such as a river
What is a drainage basin?
This is caused by climate change, and affects settlements in coastal regions
What is rising sea levels?
The different types of population distribution
What is clustered, scattered and linear?
The process of a population shifting form rural to urban, leading to the growth and development of cities
Whats is urbanization?
The layer of the Earth's crust that is made of semi-molten rock
What is the asthenosphere?
Every 2 - 7 years, a change in the regular currents of the Pacific Ocean occurs
What is El Nino and La Nina?
Things that attract you to a new location
What is a pull factor?
Natural factors that influence settlement
What are natural resources, waterways, landforms and climate?
The location of a settlement relative to its surroundings
What is situation?