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Define transport? |
Transport is the of moving, carrying and conveying items and people from place to another |
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What is communication? |
Communication is the process of transferring information between individuals and groups |
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List factories affecting transport and communication facilities? |
A) Demand and supply B) Alternative sources C) Politics |
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Define canal transport? |
A canal transport is artificial waterway |
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Small canals in North America include |
Soo canal and welland canal |
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How many canals dose Africa has |
Africa has two waterways are 1) jonglei canal 2) Suez canal |
Suez in Egypt and jonglei located in south Sudan |
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Mention the six major sea routes in the world |
1) The north Atlantic sea route II) The Mediterranean-Eastern sea route III) The European-Eastern South African
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IV) The Panama sea route 5.) The Cape of Good Hope Sea route Vi.) The north pacific sea route |
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What is road transport? |
Road transport is the most universal mode of transport in terms of its spread and availability of space |
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What are ad vantages of road transport? |
a) Short distanceb) Flexibilityc) Shared trafficd) Stepwise developmen |
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What are disadvantages of road transport? |
Slackened traffic) (Pollution) (Accident) (Uneconomical) |
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What are ad'vantages of water transport? |
(Resistance). (Infrastructure). (Economical) |
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What are disadvantages of water transport? |
Interruption. Obstacles. Limited network |
Interruption= مقطاع Obstacles=عائق |
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What are ad'vantages of railway transport? |
( Low cost of transport). ( Fast transportation). ( Economy of space). ( Minimal pollution) |
Minimal=little |
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Define air transport? |
Air transport comprises all air borne means of transport |
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What is telecommunication? |
Telecommunication is the act of transferring information over a long distance using letters, telegraphs, telexes and facsimile machines |
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Ch7 |
Trade |
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Define trade? |
Trade refers to the buying and selling of goods and services |
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Where barter trade was mainly restricted? |
Barter trade was mainly restricted to short distances because of poor means of transport and obstacles such as forests and mountains |
barter=مقايضة |
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What are types of trade? |
Internal trade and external trade |
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Define internal trade? |
This type of trade also known as domestic trade and involves the buying and selling of goods within country |
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What are types of traders involved in the home trade? |
Wholesaler and retailer |
retailer= بائع بالتجزئة |
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Define wholesaler? |
Wholesaler usually purchase goods in bulk from producers and sell them to retailers |
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What are retailers? |
Retailers are those traders who buy goods from the wholesaler and sell to individual consumers |
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What is external trade? |
This type of trade also called international its trade carried out between a country and the rest of the world |
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What are the factors that influencing international trade? |
1) Demand and supply2) Transport and communication3) Capital4) Taxation |
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Ch8 |
Population |
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What is population? |
Population in its general use refers to all the inhabitants of a given place and may be plant or animals |
inhabitants= ساكن مقيم |
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Define human population? |
Human population refers to the total number of people found in or inhabiting a given area |
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What are sources of population data? |
Primary source of population data and secondary source of population data |
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List primary source of population data? |
a) Registration b) Census c) Sample survey |
Registration= تسجيل Census= حصاء سكاني |
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List secondary source of population data? |
Tally tapes b) Published reports. c) Unpublished report |
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Define census |
The term census refers to the count of the entire population of an area and the compilation of demographic. Social and economic information of the population being enumerated at a given time and place |
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What are the two types of population growth? |
a) Natural population growth. b) Numerical population growth |
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Define natural population growth? |
Natural population growth: is the natural increase or decrease in population |
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Define numerical population growth? |
Numerical population growth: is the actual (absolute) increase of the number of people in an area within a given period |
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What are the factors influencing population growth? |
a) Fertility b) Mortality c) Migration |
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Define fertility |
Fertility refers to the ability of a woman to give birth to a live child |
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Define mortality |
Mortality refers to the deaths among members of a population |
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Define migration? |
Migration is the temporary or permanent change of residence of people as they move from one place to another |
residence= مسكن |
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What are the causes of migration? |
Pressure of land, better employment opportunities, warfare and calamites |
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What are the types of migration |
Internal migration. International migration |
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State the types of internal migration? |
1)Rural-urban migration 2) Rural-rural migration 3) Urban-rural migration 4)Urban-urban migration |
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Ch:9 |
settlement |
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What does human settlement mean? |
Human settlement means the built-up environment. It means the villages. the infrastructure to town or any place where human activities take place. |
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What are the types of human settlements? |
A) Rural and b) urban settlements |
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Define urbanization? |
Urbanization means the growth and spread of towns and town life. The world urban comes from the Greek word (urbs) |
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What are the geographical factors influence location and settlement patterns? |
A) Climate b) Landforms. c) Environmental disease d) Soil fertility e) Presence of water bodies |
patterns= أنماط |
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What are the main settlement patterns? |
a) Nucleated settlement patternsb) Dispersed settlement patternsc) Linear settlement patterns |
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What are the two elements of climate which influence where people settle? |
Rainfall and temperature |
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Ch:10 |
Environmental management& conservation |
conservation= حفظ |
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What is the meaning of environment? |
The term environment means all the external surrounding conditions which influence behavior and survival of living things |
survival=remaining |
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Tell types of environment? |
1)The natural environment, 2)the geographical environment, 3)the physical environment, 4)the non-human environment and 5)cultural environment |
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Define environmental conservation? |
This means the preservation from destruction. Waste or loss of natural resources by careful use and management |
preservation= protect |
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Define environmental management? |
Environmental management is the planning and implementing of the plan to ensure effective and proper utilization of the available resources in the environment, in order to achieve the set objectives |
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List the needs of environmental conservation and management? |
1) Proper utilization of resource, 2) sustenance of human life, 3) economic value |
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Define environmental hazards? |
Environmental hazards are the occurrences in the environment that causes disturbance of the equilibrium (balance) of an ecosystem. |
hazards= خطر |
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State environmental hazards? |
1) Tropical cyclones, 2) seismic disturbances, 3) drought and desertification |
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Define drought |
Drought: is a condition where by an area experiences a rainfall deficient season followed by a long dry period. |
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Define desertification? |
Desertification:) is a progressive process of land degradation of a once life supporting environment in the arid, ( semi arid) and ( dry sub-humid areas) |
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