The Urban environment key terms
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- Q1A Mega-city is a city of more than20 million people5 million people15 million people10 million people
- Q2the process of urban growth is called....urban sprawlsuburbsUrbanisationregeneration
- Q3The outward growth of urban areas is calledurbanisationsuburbsCBDUrban sprawl
- Q4Urbanisation is usually linked with a country'ssocial developmenteducational developmentenvironmental developmenteconomic development
- Q5smog is a mixture of ....smog and sunlightfog and windsmoke and fogsmoke and rain
- Q6meeting the needs of people without damaging the environment or exploiting resources is the definition ofstewardshipregenerationSustainablecarbon zero
- Q7An environmental pressure facing urban areas could includeall of thesewater courses become polluted by industrial and human wastea growing demand for transpot increases air pollutionair polloution caused by burning wood/coal/waste in slums increases air pollutionand adds toxic pollution
- Q8what percentage (%) of inhabitants of Curitiba in Brazil, were happy with their city?89%59%99%79%
- Q9What is a Tsunami?a tidal wave caused by an undersea earthquakea large wave caused by storms at seaa high tidea tropical storm
- Q10a low-lying areas next to a river is likely to bevulnerable to quicksanda floodplaina recreational areaagricultural land
- Q11An area where social environemental and economic conditions are very poor is a:degenerated areaDeprived areadisused areaderelict area
- Q12life expectancy issomething used to measure how healthy you arethe age you are when you diehow long some-one might live forthe avaerage number of years a person can expect to live at the time of their birth
- Q13Which one of these is a push factornatural disasterbetter education/healthcareinmprove quality of lifebetter job oppurtunities
- Q14What is "natural increase" when referring to populationwhere more people come to live in an areawhere the number of births is greater than the number of deaths in an areawhere relatives relocate to live togetherwhere the birth weight of babies increase
- Q15The movement of people from one place to another is called:emmigrationimmigrationmigrationdancing