Urban Zones
What is the CBD
the central business district
The location in a large city where there is makeshift housing that is not owned by its inhabitants
Slum, squatter communtiy, or shanty town
The type of land you are building on, if you are building something for the first time
What is greenfield
Today glaciers exist only in the higher latitudes; there are no glaciers in Earth's tropics.
False
What Has A Ring But No Finger?
Mobile Phone and A Bell
What two land use zones make up the inner city?
Old housing zone and the CBD
he birth rate minus the death rate of a population.
natural increase
One advantage of building on a greenfield site
Cheaper land, more land, custom built, good transportation links, good access to raw materials
Which is the only continent on Earth with currently no glaciers?
aUSTRALIA
What has 4 legs up and down?
A bed
What changes have not taken place in the CBD?
retail parks
Two challenges facing developed cities
Any two of: food, energy, transport and waste disposal demands, concentrated resource consumption, segregation
What is the biggest and coldest desert on Earth?
Antarctica
Roughly what proportion of the world's fresh water is stored in glaciers and ice caps?
69%
What has a neck but no head?
A
shirt
What features are uncommon in shanty towns?
diseases
What is a standard of living below a reasonable minimum of the majority people
deprivation
The type of scheme where slum dwellers are given land outside the slum and some training and a loan to build their own homes in a new location
What is a site and service scheme
During the last ice age, glaciers covered almost one-third of all the land. What percentage of the land is covered by glacial ice today?
10-11%
What has 6 heads and 21 eyes?
a dice
What is not a key feature of a self-help scheme in shanty towns?
large scale projects
The process of increasing and preserving open space such as public parks and gardens in urban areas.
Urban Greening
One reason why developed cities have such large eco footprints, and one solution to try to reduce it.
well off populations use a lot of energy - cars, phones, appliances - generate a lot of waste, use a lot of water, travel by plane
They can also afford green technology such as hybrid cars, energy efficient appliances, climate smart architecture, efficient public transportation, greening the city for carbon dioxide absorption...
Do icebergs contribute to sea level rise?
No
3 men go into a hotel. The man behind the desk says a room is $30 so each man pays $10 and goes to the room.
A while later the man behind the desk realized the room was only $25 so he sent the bellboy to the 3 guys’ room with $5. On the way the bellboy couldn’t figure out how to split $5 evenly between 3 men, so he gave each man a $1 and kept the other $2 for himself.
This meant that the 3 men each paid $9 for the room, which is a total of $27 add the $2 that the bellboy kept = $29. Where is the other dollar?
There is no missing dollar.
the men spent $27, of which $25 went on the room and $2 went to the bell boy. The $2 that went to the bell boy came from the $27 spent, with the other $25 going on the room.