Urban Issues & Challenges
What does urban mean?
City/built up area
What are the three main resources?
Water, Energy and Food
how many people are in a mega city?
10 million
Define a natural hazard?
A natural event that has a negative impact on PEOPLE
Name a hot desert and a tropical rainforest
Thar Desert/ Sahara
Amazon
What is a push factor and give an example
something that forces someone to move away from a place.
War, lack of jobs, lack of education, lack of healthcare
What is appropriate technology? Give an example
Technology that meets the skills of the locals
Name an NEE
Nigeria, China, India
What are the three types of plate bounary?
constructive, destructive and conservative
How much precipitation does a desert & tropical rainforest get?
Desert 250mm per year
Rainforest more than 2,000mm year
What is a pull factor and give an example
something that attracts someone to move to an area.
peace, high paid jobs, access to healthcare
How can an area like Kenya increase the amount of water they have?
What is a TNC? Give an example
Trans National Corporation.
Shell Oil
Give a primary impact of a tropical storm
Storm surge (flooding from sea)
Broken electricity cables (power cut)
Broken windows
what is desertification?
Name a HIC City
London
What large-scale water transfer project have you looked at?
China's South North Water Transfer Project
What are the four types of job sector?
Primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary
What are the three P's to reduce the impact of hazards?
Prediction (when and where it will happen)
Planning (evacuate)
Protection (hazard proof buildings)
Whats the difference between a food web and a food chain?
A food web is made of lots of food chains and shows how an ecosystem is connected.
Name an NEE city where they are experiencing problems with over population. And give a problem
Dharavi, Mumbai, India
Poor quality housing, lack of toilets, overcrowing
Why did China need a water transfer project?
Lots of water in south and not enough in the north for factories to make money
What is a the negative impacts of Shell on Nigeria?
Oil spill killed fish
Why did Haiti have worse impacts than L'Aquila?
Haiti is an LIC, so cannot afford to have earthquake proof buildings and equipment to predict when they will happen.
Explain the opportunities in hot deserts
Tourism (Festival)
Energy
Mining
Agriculture (farming)