Definitions 1
A prominent object or landform that identifies a place.
What is a landmark?
The location of a place in relation to other places or larger features.
What is situation?
Locations measured in degrees north and south or east and west.
What is latitude and longitude?
The use of resources at a rate which meets the needs of the present generation but also ensures plenty for future generations.
What is sustainable?
The four types of sites.
What is harbour, strategic, meeting point, and natural resource?
The increase of urban areas.
What is urbanization?
The study of the earth and people's relationship to it.
What is geography?
A map which shows one subject or theme, such as population or climate.
What is a thematic map?
A very detailed map showing physical and human features through the use of lines and symbols.
What is a topographic map?
The two types of situation factors.
What is physical and human?
What is a scale?
A country where there is a higher level of income, industrialization, and modernization.
What is a developed nation?
Sparsely settled areas.
What is rural areas?
The position of a place described in relation to another place.
What is relative location?
The purpose for which people use a particular area.
What is land use?
A major street along which there is a large volume of traffic.
What is a traffic artery?
The position of a place that can be expressed by a grid reference.
What is absolute location?
Newer communities found at the edges of established cities.
What is a suburban settlement?
A country where most people have a lower standard of living and less access to goods and services.
What is a developing nation?
A figure showing the major directions.
What is a compass rose?
The five types of community change.
What are cultural, social, economic, environmental, and political?
People who are trained to design communities and public spaces.
Who are urban planners?
An interlocking system of letters and numbers used to determine location.
What is an alphanumeric grid?
The specific physical features defining the location of a place.
What is site?
A community where 1000 or more people live close together.
What is an urban settlement?