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What is population distribution?
How spread out people are (KM2)
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What is an aging population?
more people 65 or older
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What is a youthful population?
more people 16 or younger
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What is migration?
The movement of people
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What is an asylum seeker?
someone who moves to seek help
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What is an emigrant?
someone leaving their previous country
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What is an immigrant?
someone who is moving to a new country
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What is an illegal immigrant?
An immigrant moving without the paperwork
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What is an economic migrant?
Someone who moves for their job.
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Who were Boserup and Malthus?
They both focused on how much food to people there was. However, Boserup was positive about it and Malthus was negative.
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What is Pro- natal
encourage birth
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What is Ant- natal?
Discourage birth
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How did some countries try to control the population?
Some countries made rules about how many children you can have to control their population.
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What is flora?
Plants (like the butter that i think is vegetarian)
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What is Fauna?
Animals
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What is Biodiversity?
A good range of Flora or Fauna
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What is an ecosystem?
A biological community of intereacting organisms and their environment.
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What is Adaptation?
changing to fit the area
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What is Behavioural adaptation?
How animals survive because of how they act.
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What is Arid climate?
An arid climate is a very very hot climate. Where people have to walk miles to collect dirty water and hunt crocodiles to eat.
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What is Polar climate?
A polar climate is a very very cold climate. Where people have to wear as many layers and hunt for their food in the cold sea.
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How do people adapt to living in these deserts?
Build very thick walls. Flat roofs to sleep on. some houses underground. Use solar panels. Use of wind turbines- lots of wind. Transport is hard for modern cars so use of camels. They also have to wear very loose clothes
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What are some problems cities might face?
Racism, natural disasters, gangs, pollution, war, over population
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What is a site?
A piece of land something is built on
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What is a situation?
Where something is.
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What is urbanization?
When thousands of people move from the country side to cities.
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What is a megacity?
A city with 10 million+ people
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What is deindustrialisation?
The end of the manufacturing industry
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What is industialisation?
the start of the manufacturing industry
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What is an anomaly?
Something that doesn't fit the patter or looks out of the ordinary
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What does sustainable mean?
what we are doing today that ruining the future.
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What is a Tundra?
An area with lots of permafrost but too harsh to grow trees
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Where are most of the Earth's glaciers?
In the North or South of the world- the furthest away from the equator
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What is a glacier?
A big block of ice often shaped like a rive.
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What is an Ice-sheet?
An area of ice that covers more than 50,000 km sq
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What is an Ice-field?
Larger than glaciers but smaller than Ice sheets
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What is Abrasion?
A sandpaper effect that smooths the valley floor by eroding it
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What is plucking?
When the ice melts it will soon freeze again between the rocks. When the glacier moves it pulls out the rocks leaving a rough surface behind.
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What is accumulation?
When lots of snow falls on top of more snow forming ice.
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What is Ablation?
When a change in temperature melts the glaciers. - meltwater
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What is Erratics?
big rocks left behind from glaciers
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What is Climate change?
when the climate changes over a long period of time caused by global warming.
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What is tarn?
A lake in a corrie
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What are the layers of the Earth?
Continental crust, Lithosphere, Oceanic crust, Asthnosphere, mantle, Outer core, inner core
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What do Constructive plate boundaries cause?
Volocanoes
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What do convergent plate boundaries cause?
Mountains
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What do conservative plate boundaries cause?
Can cause tsunamis
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