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30 Cards in this Set
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space |
space is a location that is the surface of earth |
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place |
can be cities, towns or neighbourhoods |
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interconnection |
people and things are connected |
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change |
using a time to better a place or environment |
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environment |
the physical and biological world around us |
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sustainability |
maintaining the capacity of the environment |
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scale |
come be from personal and local to regional |
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distribution |
arrangement of a given thing within a defined area eg. the populations of many countries are distributed near the coast |
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density |
an average distribution of a given thing within a defined area eg. the populations of many countries are distributed near the coast |
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urbanisation |
growth and expansion of urban area and involves the movement of people to town and citites |
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internal migration |
the movement of people moving from one defined area to another within a country |
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frontier |
an international border, or the area along the international border |
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heartland |
heartland is a modern and industrialised, the eastern area of aus |
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sea change |
shifts from the city to live in the bush |
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fly-in, fly-out workers |
people flying to wherever they work than flying home again |
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frontier 2 |
an area that is unsettled, it has a milllion people, remote but rich in resources |
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SPICESS |
S pace P lace I nterconnection C hange E nvironment S ustainability S cale |
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mega city |
urbanisation, grow by 60 million people |
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Conurbation |
Conurbation is when an area results in several towns merging with the suburbs of a central city |
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What is urbanisation |
urbanisation is the growth and expansion of certain cities |
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What is population distribution? |
The arrangement of a given thing within a defined area |
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five factors that influence where the city is built. |
Environment, Landscaping, population, economy, location and coast |
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Three effects urbanisation can have on agriculture |
agriculture, more pollution, more people |
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urban sprawl |
the spreading of urban areas into surrounding rural areas to accommodate an expanding population |
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ecological footprint |
the amount of productive land needed an average by each person in a selected area for food, water, transport, housing and waste management |
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population density |
the number of people living within one square kilometre of land |
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population distribution |
the pattern of where people live. |
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urban |
relating to a ciy or town. Definition varies from one country to another depending on population size and density |
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Net Overseas Migration |
1000-500 = 500+ ( more going ) 500-1000= -500 ( more coming in ) |
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pop decrease or decrease |
migration + births - death |