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Question 1

What are towns and cities called

Answer 1

Urban settlements

Question 2

In what activities do people who live in urban settlements take part in

Answer 2

People work in business, education, health, housing, sanitation, and transport, industry and many other sectors.

Question 3

What is a land use zone?

Answer 3

areas used or set aside for a particular activity or function

Question 4

What does the CBD stand for?

Answer 4

The “Central Business District”

Question 5

What is a CBD?

Answer 5

It is the busy business centre of an urban area. (Land is difficult to get and prices are often high)

Question 6

Why are buildings so tall in the CBD?

Answer 6

It is cheaper to build taller building than to buy expensive land to build ones with fewer flaws.

Question 7

What is an industrial zone?

Answer 7

A place where there are factories. (This is where goods are made or manufactured.)

Question 8

What are the 2 main types of industry?

Answer 8

Light and heavy industry

Question 9

How are residential areas set up?

Answer 9

They are usually divides into high income, middle income, and low income housing areas.

Question 10

Where di shopping centres develop as towns grow?

Answer 10

Away from the CBD

Question 11

What facilities are needed for recreation?

Answer 11

Sport fields, parks and outdoor play areas.

Question 12

What else is land used for.

Answer 12

It is used to provide services such as garages, libraries, clinics places of worship and schools.

Question 13

What are the characteristics of rural settlements?

Answer 13

1. They have smaller populations.
   2.They dont have as many services.
2. They usually only have one function:
   eg Farming, fishing, mining or forestry

Question 14

What are the 2 types of farming?

Answer 14

Commercial and subsistence farming

Question 15

Where do fishing villages develop?

Answer 15

On lakes or on the coast where people can fish.

Question 16

What are mining settlements?

Answer 16

1. They are often small and rural.
2. some are located in areas not suitable for
   farming. (desert and semi-desert areas.)

Question 17

What is deforestation?

Answer 17

The destruction of natural forests

Question 18

What are arial photographs?

Answer 18

They are photographs that are taken from the air, either from a helicopter or aeroplane.

Question 19

What is the definition of vertical?

Answer 19

Directly up and down (at right angles to the ground)

Question 20

What is the definition of oblique?

Answer 20

At a slanting angle (not at right angles)

Question 21

What is the definition of natural features?

Answer 21

Things that are noticeable and important in nature like mountains, valleys or forests.

Question 22

What is the definition of constructed features?

Answer 22

Things made by people like buildings dams or roads.

Question 23

What is the definition of social issues?

Answer 23

Problems that people may have in their community.

Question 24

What is the definition of environmental issues?

Answer 24

Concerns that people may have with an area.

Question 25

What is the definition of urbanisation?

Answer 25

The increasing number of people living in towns and not in rural areas.

Question 26

What is the definition of pull factors?

Answer 26

Conditions which attract people to an area.

Question 27

What is the definition of migration?

Answer 27

Moving from one place to another.

Question 28

What is the definition of push factors?

Answer 28

Conditions which force people away from an area.

Question 29

What is the definition of reserves?

Answer 29

Areas that were put aside for African land ownership under the 1913 natives land act.

Question 30

What is the definition of homelands.

Answer 30

The name given to reserves under the apartheid government.

Question 31

What is the 1913 land act?

Answer 31

It was a law that divided the land between black African and white people. It kept most of the land white people and made many black people leave the land they were farming and live in reserves or homelands.

Question 32

What happens as more people move from rural to urban areas?

Answer 32

The need for land and other resources becomes greater and greater.

Question 33

What difficulties are faced with bringing large numbers of people together?

Answer 33

1. traffic 2. crime and grangerisation 3. air pollution 4. litter 5. unemployment 6. alcohol and drug abuse 7. noise

Question 34

What problems can older parts of settlements face?

Answer 34

Social issues such as security and shortage of parks or recreation facilities.