Vocabulary
The climate of a very small area (can differ from climate of surrounding areas)
What is an urban heat island?
A built-up/urban area that is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas.
What is a green space?
An area of land partly or completely covered by various vegetation (found in urban areas, for example)
What is climate change?
Long-term changes in temperature and weather patterns.
What is a primary consumer?
An organism that eats the producers in a food chain.
The process of making an area more urban.
What is the greenhouse effect?
a natural process where earths atmosphere traps some of the suns heat to keep the planet warm enough for life.
Give an example of an urban adaptation (to combat climate change)
-investing in renewable energy resources
-creating green spaces
-bettering public transport
-reducing energy consumption
A substance that pollutes something, especially water or the atmosphere.
Pollutants
A type of relationship where both organisms benefit
mutualism
The process of changing poor urban areas into new, improved areas enforced by wealthier people (often displacing poorer individuals)
What is transpiration?
The process where plants lose water vapor.
Responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment, sustains the well-being of local people, and involves interpretation and education.
Ecotourism
A site of disposal of waste
Landfill
Which country does SA's table mountain have more species than?
England
What is urban runoff?
the flow of water (from various sources) over man-made surfaces.
Dystopia.
What does demographic mean?
relating to the structure of populations and the different groups of people in them (PEOPLE)
What is the enhanced greenhouse effect?
Increase of greenhouse gas emissions, resulting in the trapping of heat and the increase in global temperatures.
What is the cold current that flows alongside South Africa?
Benguela current.
A very large urban agglomeration with a population of over 10 million people.
Megacity
The term used for settlements built around an intersection/ very tightly packed (cities are an example of this)
Nucleated
A group of odorless manufactured chemicals.
CFC (Chlorofluorocarbons)
A gas that has 3 oxygen molecules (pale-blue with a strong odor).
Ozone
The rapid decrease in the biodiversity of life on Earth.
Mass extinction