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1
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What does the weather mean?

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Weather right here right now

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What is the climate?

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The average weather based over 30 years or more.

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What is precipitation?

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When water, hail, snow or sleet falls from the sky.

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What is evaporation

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When water turns into a gas or water vapour

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What is the water cycle?

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It shows the continuous movement of water within the earth.

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What are pull factors?

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things that will make someone want to go to a place.

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What are push factors?

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Things that will push someone away from a place and make them not want to go

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What are examples of pull factors?

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Good job opportunities, lots of entertainment, better education, high income, nice weather, good medical services

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What are examples of push factors?

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Lack of job opportunities, not good education, poor medical care, poverty, wars, natural disasters, not nice weather, isolated, no entertainment

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What is rural-urban migration?

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Moving from the countryside or a small village to the city.

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What is international migration?

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The act of moving from one country to another.

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What was chinas policy called to control population?

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The one child policy

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What is population density?

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The number of people living in a particular area

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What is population distribution?

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Where people are/live

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What is a climate graph?

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A graph that shows the temperature and the precipitation and how it Varys.

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16
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What can water be used for?

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Showering, pools, drinking, washing dishes and washing clothes.

17
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What is water surplus?

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Where the water supply is higher than the amount needed.

18
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What is water deficit?

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Where water demands exceeds water supply.

19
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What is water stress?

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Where the amount of water in an area is limiting development and population.

20
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What causes flooding?

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Heavy rainfall, glaciers melting and saturated soils.

21
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What is a population pyramid?

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A type of bar chart used to show the amount of people in each age group and what gender they are.

22
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How is population changing?

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More people are living longer and less people are having babies.

23
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What is ageing population?

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When there is a greater percentage of people over the age of 65.

24
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What is natural increase?

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The difference between birth rate and death rate.

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What are reasons for ageing population?

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People living longer, better medication, contraceptions, better facilities, women having less babies.

26
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Why did china make a one child policy?

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The country was overpopulated

27
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What is conventional rain?

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Rain driven by the heat from the sun.

28
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What is a migrant?

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A person who moves from one place to another.

29
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What is a refugee?

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A person who has been allowed to stay in a place for protection.

30
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What is an asylum seeker?

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A person who moves country because they have been kicked out of their own country.

31
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What is an emigrant?

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A person who moves from their birth country.

32
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What’s an immigrant?

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A person who moves to a country which is not your country of birth.

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