Geography Year 8 Flashcards

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Urbanisation

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The process of social and economic change that takes places as increasing numbers of people move from rural areas

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2
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Industrial Age

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Industrial Age changed the way in which the world worked as now less people were needed for farming jobs, so they moved from rural to urban

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3
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Urban sprawl

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Urban sprawl is the growth of a city onto productive farming lands on the city fringes

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4
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New growth zone

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Newly developing house estate

Alkimos

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5
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Residential city

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Housing and facilities eg. Mindarie

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6
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Parkland and nature

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Sport and recreation areas

Kings park

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7
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CBD

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Central business district= offices, shops, and is accessible

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Rural

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Urban fringe - edge of city and is where rural and urban land meets eg. Mundarian

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Outer business district

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Commercial district on main roads eg, lakeside shopping centre

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10
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Economic advantages of cities

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Work
Industry 
Trade
Customers 
Friends
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Disadvantage

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Affects on environment (pollution, ruin native land)
Housing price 
Traffic  
Crowded 
Cost 
Crime rate
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12
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Mega city

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A city with a population over 10 million

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13
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Seoul

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25 million people
North Korea
Advanced transport

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14
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New Delhi

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India
25 million
Worst air quality
Slums

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15
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Jakarta

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30 million
Slums
Lack of fresh water

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16
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Tokyo

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37 million
Joke to the busiest intersection in the world
Subway trains
Low crime and pollution

17
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Asia

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Is home to some of the largest and fastest growing cities

18
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Urban slums

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  • struggling to cope with urban explosion
  • providing people with basics is getting hard
    Slums- poor housing with little assistance from government
    -4 million people in slums
    Reasons :
    Government, not enough money, pollution, over populated
19
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Population spewed in Australia

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Most unevenly spread
85% live near coast
Cities located near natural and/or built in features that we need the most
Towns were originally settled for trade and communication

20
Q

PQE

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Pattern
Quantify
Exception

21
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Climate in Australia

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Australia’s extreme climate in some areas play a role in the reason people migrate closer to the beach and further away from the inland areas

22
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Pull of cities on Australia’s population

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The pull of cities means that is has benefits such as job opportunities and education with makes people live in cities over rural areas

23
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Suburbanisation

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Making more land on the outskirts

24
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Urban renewal

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Redevelopment of already existing areas

25
Q

Decentralisation

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The process of encouraging population growth and job creation in suburbs and smaller regional towns or cities rather than in the central areas

26
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More about decentralisation

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Companies move their operations from capital cities to more regional agreed
Spreading out multiple business so the CBD isn’t as crowded

27
Q

Advantage of decentralisation

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Relief cost of homes and things
Traffic isn’t as bad
Relieve some Damage to environment

28
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Disadvantages of decentralisation

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Difficult an expensive to get companies to move