Year 8 EOY Test Revision Flashcards
What is consistent in terms of global population as time continues.
The population and it’s growth speed increases.
Population
Number of people in a particular place
Population Density
The number of people per km^2
Population Distribution
How a population is spread out over an area
Factors of life that could cause migration
Illness, Location, Hygiene, Poverty, Injuries, Neighbours/Roomates, Genes/DNA, Healthiness and Temperature and Weather
Birth Rate
Number of babies born per 1000 people
Death Rate
Number of deaths per 1000 people
Low Birth rate/ High death rate (High Birth rate and Low Death rate is opposite)
Lower population, Small/Bad hospitals, Old population, Religion/ Beliefs and Poverty
Dense
Crowded closely together
Sparse
widely-spaced
Cluster
Grouped together
Ageing Population
growth in proportion of older people (usually 65 and older) in the population
Population structure
How many males and females of different ages are in a population
Migration
The movement from 1 place to another
Immigrants
someone moving to another country
Emmigrants
someone leaving a country into another
International Migration
Migration across borders
Net migration
Immigrants minus Emmigrants
Economic Migrants
People that move countries to advance their economic and professional prospect
Asylum seekers
A person that’s left their home country as a political refugee and is seeking asylum in another country
Refugees
A person who has been forced to leave their country because of war persecution etc. Refugees already receive permission from the authorities on their asylum claim.
Illegal Immigrants
People who arrive in a country without permission.
Reasons people migrate to the UK
Bad former country, Free healthcare, Democratic, Good education, Family, Less strict migration laws and job opportunities.
Persecution
treating people badly because of their beliefs or race
Descendants
Relatives born after someone, such as a child.
Diverse
Having lots of variety
Chloropleth map
a map that uses shades to identify populations (in one colour) where dark shades mean dense population and light for sparse
Urbanisation
When an inversing percentage of a country’s population moves to towns and cities.
Rural
In the countryside
Village
A community with a variety of houses, some shops and other services
Commute
To travel to and from another place for work
Commuter village
A village, often with housing estates, close to a town or city. People live there but commute to work elsewhere.
Hamlet
An isolated cluster of houses and farms, usually with no shops or services
Counter-Urbanisation
Movement from an urban area to rural.
Weather
Day to day changes in the atmosphere, measured with temperature, precipitation, wind speed and direction, cloud cover and air pressure
Climate
Long-term weather pattern of an area (usually measured over 30 years) measured with temperature, precipitation and wind speed and direction
Temperature
Thermometer
Precipitation
mm and Rain Gauge
Humidity
The amount of water vapour in the air, % and Hygrometer
Wind Speed
kph and Anemometer
Wind Direction
Wind Vane
Air pressure
How heavy the air is around us, millibars and Barometer
Cloud type
Can tell us smothing about weather higher in the atmosphere.
Cloud cover
How much of the sky is covered with clouds, oktas and okta index cards
Weather types
Sunny, Cloudy, Rain, Hail, Thunder, Windy and Hurricane
1st layer
Troposphere (weather)
2nd layer
Stratosphere (planes and ozone layer)
3rd layer
Mesosphere (burning meteors)
4th layer
Thermosphere (auroras and space shuttles)
5th layer
Exosphere (merges with space, thin layer)
Tropical continental
North Africa
Polar Continental
Central Europe
Polar Maritime
Greenland/ Arctic sea
Tropical Maritime
Atlantic
Arctic Maritime
Arctic
Water cycle
the cycle of water between ocean atmosphere and land
Surface runoff
Water flowing overground e.g. rivers
Groundwater
Water held underground in soil or rock
Transpiration
water released from plant leaves into the atmosphere
