Someone seeking refuge (residency) in a foreign country because their life is in danger in their home country.
What is an asylum seeker?
The center point of the city and has the highest land prices.
What is the central business district (CBD)?
This decreases by 1°C per 100m increase in altitude.
How does altitude affect temperature in the atmosphere?
The average conditions over a longer period of time, usually a few years.
What is climate?
Improving and increasing GDP per capita, bringing foreign money, culture, and diversity, creating jobs for the unemployed, increasing business and trade, and generating increased publicity and new infrastructure.
What are some advantages of tourism?
Unemployment, shortage of hospitals/schools/housing/water/electricity, congestion, inflation, noise/air/water pollution.
What are the consequences of overpopulation?
In a certain part of a settlement: congestion, pollution, and lack of space.
What are the problems that the CBD faces?
This part of a Stevenson's Screen are designed to let the air circulate while preventing light from getting in.
What is the purpose of the slanted sides of a Stevenson's Screen?
Latitude, distance from the sea, prevailing winds, ocean currents, and altitude.
What are the factors that influence climate characteristics?
Greater affluence, greater mobility, improved accessibility and transport facilities, more leisure time, changing lifestyles, increase in recreational activities, and advertising holiday destinations
What are some factors that contribute to the growth of tourism?
No job, low salary, pollution and congestion, bad weather, crime, poor education and healthcare, poor housing.
What are some push factors for migration?
These are goods that people buy less frequently and these are goods that people buy every day.
What is the difference between high order goods and low order goods?
This measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
Close to the equator, has a mean temperature of about 25-30°C in the hottest month, has an annual temperature range of less than 5°C, and has low rainfall amounts of less than 250mm per year (be precise!)
What are the characteristics of the Equatorial Hot Desert climate?
Transport and accessibility, scenery, weather, accommodation, and amenities
What are some factors that change tourist patterns?
What is the carrying capacity?
The number of people the environment can support without negative effects on the population.
Found at the edge of a town or city and is a mixture of land uses, such as housing, golf courses, allotments, businesses, parks, and airports.
What is the rural-urban fringe?
THIS IS THE PROCESS OF MOVING MOISTURE FROM THE OCEANS TO THE LAND AND BACK TO THE OCEANS AGAIN
WHAT IS THE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE?
Farming, hydro-electric power, mining, road building, settlements, and timber.
What are the reasons for deforestation of tropical rainforests?
Longer vacations, Shorter working hours; people work from home, More elderly
What are the reasons for an increase in leisure time in MEDCs?
One is the amount of people that a region/country can ecologically support, usually less than the other.
What is the difference between optimum population and carrying capacity?
The population size and the range and number of services as a categorization.
What are the two determinants of the hierarchy of settlements?
This is used to measure the temperature after the water from the cloth evaporates, providing a reading that is a few degrees lower than the actual air temperature.
What is a wet bulb thermometer/hygrometer?
These have warmer winters and cooler summers due to their proximity to the sea versus other areas.
What is the difference in temperature in coastal areas versus inland areas?
Hiking, Kayaking, Bird watching, Safari, Cycling, Beach cleaning, Tree planting, Completing bird and animal surveys
What are examples of ecotourism activities?