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Brownfield
Abandoned or underused industrial facilities available for re-use. Often land is contaminated and needs redevelopment.
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Counter-Urbanisation
The process of people leaving cities to live in the countryside.
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Diversification
When rural communities broaden the way they make money. (e.g. a farm hires out a barn for weddings, whilst having a farm shop and having a field that people keep their caravans on as well as farming crops).
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Gentrification
Wealthier people enter the poor neighbourhoods. They renovate these areas and make them more desirable. This increases house prices. Therefore poorer residents are forced to leave.
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Greenfield
Undeveloped land in a city or rural area.
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Range
The maximum distance people are willing to travel to obtain a good or service.
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Threshold Population
The number of people needed for a business to make a profit or for a service to be needed. (e.g. a school).
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Urbanisation
An increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities.
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Anticyclone
High pressure weather system which brings dry weather.
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Convectional Rain
This is formed when warm air rises.
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Depression
Low pressure weather system which brings wet weather.
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Dew Point
The temperature at which condensation starts.
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Drainage Basin
The area drained by a river and its tributaries. (ie. only water in this area of land adds to this river).
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Front
The boundary between two air masses.
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Frontal Rain
This is formed when warm air rises over cold air at the front.
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Marginal Land
Land that is on the edge of places where it is possible to farm.
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Percolation
Water moves down from soil into the rock beneath.
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Relief Rain
This is formed when air rises over hills and mountains.
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Watershed
An area of high land between two drainage basins - the edge of the drainage basin.
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Footloose Industry
An industry that it not tied to a particular location for raw materials. it is free to choose its location.
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Formal Work
Jobs with normal hours and regular wages where workers pay taxes to the government.
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Informal Work
Jobs that people organise for themselves and are not officially recognised by the government. These are common in LEDCs and people do not pay taxes to the government.
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NIC
Newly Industrialised Country. (countries that have increased their manufacturing industries).
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Quaternary Jobs
Industries that are involved in research, development and information technology.
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Tertiary Jobs
Industries that provide a service. (a business or organisation that meets the needs of the public)
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Trade Bloc
An agreement between countries to allow for easier exchange of goods.
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Water Table
The level of rocks below which the ground is saturated with water.
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Card 2

Front

The process of people leaving cities to live in the countryside.

Back

Counter-Urbanisation

Card 3

Front

When rural communities broaden the way they make money. (e.g. a farm hires out a barn for weddings, whilst having a farm shop and having a field that people keep their caravans on as well as farming crops).

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

Wealthier people enter the poor neighbourhoods. They renovate these areas and make them more desirable. This increases house prices. Therefore poorer residents are forced to leave.

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

Undeveloped land in a city or rural area.

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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