Climate Change
This gas, produced by burning fossil fuels, is the main contributor to global warming.
What is carbon dioxide?
GDP stands for this.
What is Gross Domestic Product?
The increase in the number or percentage of people living in towns and cities.
What is urbanisation?
A sudden shaking of the Earth’s crust.
What is an earthquake?
Rainforests are located near this imaginary line.
What is the Equator?
The effect describing how gases in the atmosphere trap heat.
What is the greenhouse effect?
Countries with lower levels of income and slower industrial growth are often grouped under this label.
What are LICs (Low-Income Countries)?
Informal settlements found in many LIC cities.
What are slums/shanty towns?
A plate boundary where plates move apart.
What is a constructive/divergent boundary?
The cold northern biome dominated by coniferous forests.
What is the taiga/boreal forest?
The international agreement signed in 2015 to combat climate change.
What is the Paris Agreement?
A measure combining life expectancy, education, and income.
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?
When cities grow outwards into surrounding countryside, it is called this.
What is urban sprawl?
The point underground where an earthquake begins.
What is the focus/epicentre?
The variety of plant and animal life in a habitat.
What is biodiversity?
The amount of solar energy that reaches the Earth’s surface is called this.
What is solar insolation?
When people do not have enough money to meet the basic needs of life, such as food, clean water, and shelter, they are living in this.
What is absolute poverty?
This term describes the large movement of people into cities because they believe they will find better jobs and services.
What are pull factors?
This instrument is used to measure the strength of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
The grassland ecosystem found widely in Africa.
What are savannas?
Permanent long-term changes in average weather patterns.
What is climate change?
This organisation provides loans and support to developing countries to help reduce poverty.
What is the World Bank?
The revitalisation of run-down areas through new investment.
What is gentrification?
A rotating tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is a hurricane?
These ecosystems have very high temperatures and rainfall all year, supporting the greatest number of plant and animal species on Earth.
What are tropical rainforests?