Urbanisation Flashcards
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What is Urbanisation?
Urbanization is the growth and expansion of urban areas and involves the movement of people to towns and cities.
What is urban?
Urban is relating to a city or town. The definition of an urban area varies from one country to another, depending on population size and density.
What is uneven urbanisation?
Uneven urbanization is the uneven distribution of urban areas throughout a country, continent, or globally.
What is population density?
Population density is the number of people living within one square kilometer of land; it identifies the intensity of land use, or how crowded a place is.
What is population distribution?
Population distribution is the pattern of where people live. Population distribution is not even – cities have high population densities and remote places such as deserts usually have low population density.
What are geographical factors?
Geographical factors are reasons for spatial patterns, including patterns noticeable in the landscape, topography, climate and population.
What is a rural area?
a rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities
What is a country?
a nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory
What is a continent?
Any of the worlds main continuous expanses of land or large landmasses,.
What is an urban sprawl
An urban sprawl is an unplanned urban area that has spread into what used to be rural land.
What is Arable?
Arable refers to the suitability of an area to grow crops.
What is an ecological footprint?
An ecological footprint is the amount of productive land needed on average by each person in a selected area for food, water, transport, housing and waste management.
List the disadvantages of living in large cities.
- More demand for land as cities grow - less land for agriculture
- Less arable land
- Greater dependence on cars to travel greater distances in cities
- Longer commuting times for people
- Larger Ecological footprints.
- Homelessness (unaffordable housing prices)
- Pollution
- Health Issues
- Conurbation
What is the population distribution in Australia?
Australia has a very high coastal urbanization. As inland Australia is prominantly desert, 89% of Australia’s population of 25 500 000 people live in such areas. On top of this 40% of the population live in the coastal cities of Sydney and Melbourne.
What is the evolution of urbanisation?
- Hunters and Gatherers moved from place to place in search of food.
- 10 000 years ago our ancestors began to learn the secrets of selected-breeding and early agricultural techniques. People learned to raise food instead of search for it, this lead to the development of semi-permanent villages.
- 5000 years ago, due to the development of techniques such as irrigation and soil tilling that allowed people to rely on long term supply of food, this made a permanent settlement possible.
- When trades where developed, it was no longer necessary for people to farm, causing new trades to be developed, and by extension, cities.
- From the 1780s to the 1840s the industrial revolution occurred. As trades flourished, so did technologies that facilitated it. These facilities took a long time to build and many people, drawing even more people from small villages to large cities. Safety departments such as police and fire brigades where developed
- In 2010, large cities that provide essential facilities were developed and new jobs and opportunities are now available.
Is Australia an urbanised country?
Australia is one of the most urbanised nations, with 90 per cent of the population living in just 0.22 per cent of the country’s land area and 85 per cent living within 50 kilometres of the coast.
What are the coordinates for the international date line?
180 degrees
Which direction does latitude face?
South and North
Which direction does longitude face?
West and East
When writing longitude and latitude which comes first?
Latitude comes first, followed by longitude.
What is the equator and what is the prime meridian?
The equator, located at 0 degrees longitude, identifies when a place should be considered as north or south when identifying its longitude. The prime meridian, located at 0 degreed latitudes, is the line in which defines when a coordinate should be considered as east or west.
What are the three different types of scale?
- Word scale e.g. 1cm represents 160km
- Ratio scale e.g. 1:16000000
- Linear Scale
What is conurbation?
A conurbation is made up of cities that have grown and merged to form one continuous urban area.
