Chapter 7 Flashcards
What is a city?
A city is a defined urban area within a country.
What is population density?
A measurement of the number of people living in a unit area of land.
What is the formula of population density?
Number of people living in an area divide by land area
What is a built up area?
A land surface mostly covered by buildings
Why do migrants migrate?
Push factors and pull factors: Push: Natural disasters, low paying jobs. Pull: High paying jobs, High wages, Better variety of jobs
What is technological innovation?
It is the use of scientific knowledge to create new products or services
Describe water pollution
Water supplies in cities are affected by improper management of household and industrial waste due to inadequate or broken sewage systems. When waste is disposed directly into the water bodies, water quality is reduced. This also threatens human health and aquatic life.
What is a hazard?
A hazard is an event that has a negative impact on people, the physical and built environments and the economy.
What is a human induced hazard?
It arises from human actions or inaction, such as ignoring safety regulations or warnings. Example of these include fires, oil spills and accidents (include the examples if the question asks for it)
What is a natural hazard?
It arises from processes in the physical environment. Examples of these include earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis.
What is quality of life?
It refers to a person’s well being, which is affected by several factors such as physical and mental health, level of independence and relationship with others.
What is housing?
Housing refers to structures or buildings constructed to shelter people from weather elements such as extremely high or low temperatures and rain.
What are the benefits of having different transportation modes?
Travelling around the city would be easier, buses trains and trams is a lot more affordable than cars
Traffic congestion can be reduced when people have more options of traveling, trains and buses which can carry more passengers.
Environmental pollution is reduced as fewer cars on the road can lead to lesser fossil fuel consumption.
What is transportation modes?
It refers to the ways in which people and goods move from one location to another.
Why do we have to consider the needs of different groups?
To ensure a good quality of life for the elderly and people with disabilities.
What is land use planning?
Land use planning involves making decisions on how land resources will be used for various purposes such as housing recreation and transport.
Why is it important to find sustainable ways to manage hazards in a city?
Hazards can turn into disasters, where they can cause damage to people and their properties. The impact from hazards increases greatly through cities’ large population size, high population density and built up areas. If not managed properly, the human costs of injuries and deaths as well as the economic costs of rebuilding as a result of hazards is very high.
