Chapter 5 Revision Flashcards
What is a pull factor?
Positive aspects of a place; reasons that attack people to come and live in a place has more jobs for you if your unemployed, people move to that location just for the job. Some factors could be available resources
Relation ships with family
Lifestyle
What is a push factor?
A push factor is when people are driven away from a place.
What is urban decay?
Urban decay is a situation in which a city area has fallen into a state of disrepair through its people leaving the area or not having enough resources to look after them.
What does remote mean?
Remote describes a place that is distant from major population centres.
What does sparse mean?
Thinly scattered or unevenly distributed; often used when referring to population density
Why did so many soldier settlements fail after WWI?
Many of these soldier settlements failed because many of the soldiers were not suited to farming, the farms were often too small and they did not have enough money to invest in stock or equipments.
What does Irrigation mean?
Water provided crops and orchards by hoses, channels, sprays or drip systems in order to supplement rainfall.
What does Horticulture mean?
The growing of garden crops such as fruit, vegetables, herbs and nuts.
Natural factors that would want to make people live in Griffith?
Fertile lands and very flat lands.
2 human factors that would make expel want to live in Griffith.
Families living there and opportunities for work.
What does remote mean?
A place situated far from the main centres of population.
What does FIFO mean?
FIFO describes workers who fly to work in remote places, work 4-, 8- or12-day shifts and then fly home?
What is a natural feature?
A natural feature is something that is made naturally, such as water trees etc.
What is a human feature?
A human feature is something built by humans, such as buildings, statues and walls.
What is a combination feature of natural and human?
It is something that has both natural and human features in it such as
