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Physical geography vs. human geography
What is the 2 different branches of geography?
Site
What are physical features to make a location unique?
Global Settlement
What is where people decide to live in the world?
Population Density
Tells us how crowded a city, province or country is
"Greenest City in Europe"
Vaxjo, Sweden
What is the particular location of a settlement relative to its surroundings and other places?
Desertification
What is the process of fertile land changing into the desert or arid land?
Calculate population density.
What is divide the population of the region by the area of the land size in km2?
Climate
What is a long-term weather patterns in a region; determined after 30 years of data is collected and averaged?
Mirny, Russia Physical Features
What is a diamond mining pit; town built around it so the mine can function with jobs?
Sustainable Living
What are trying to live in a way that reduces demand on the earth’s natural resources?
Suburban Areas
What are often near major cities, with lots of residential areas?
Land Use Issues
What is the pursuit of recognized territorial ownership by a group or individual?
Rural Areas
What are areas with few people spread out on lots of land, with lots of farmland and wildlife?
Global Warming
What is a result of humans creating excessive carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels?
Polar and Subpolar Climate Zones
What is cool summers with very cold winters and very little precipitation; extreme cold most of the year with treeless tundra or a permanent layer of ice?
Human Activities Causing Desertification
What is overgrazing, deforestation, farming practices, fertilizers and pesticides, extracting natural resources?
Pros and Cons of Urban Living
What are pros of more people, increased diversity, more job opportunities? What are cons of more expensive, less space, more crime, pollution?
3 Places most effected by rising sea levels
Shanghai, Vietnam and Mumbai
Impacts of Rising Sea Levels
What is food production, flooding, forced migration, change in ecoosystems, loss of ecosystems, wildlife and human life?
Settlement Location Factors
What are historical, political, economical, natural disaster, agricultural, environmental?
Chloropleth Map
What is a map that using differences in shading or colouring of symbols to indicate the average values of a property quantity of areas?
Urbanization Statistics
- In 1900, only 15% of the world’s population lived in urban areas
- In 1980, 39% of the world’s population lived in urban areas. In 2015, the number grew to 54%. In Canada, in 2021, 82% of people lived in urban areas.
- Experts are estimating that, in 2050, 66% of the world’s population will live in urban areas
- They contain rare or unsual landforms.
- They provide valuable ecological functions that provide benefits to other ecosystems or are home to endangered species.
- They are large, undistrubed areas that plants and animals depend on for their survival and reproduction.