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Geography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Infrastructure | network of facilities and systems an organisation needs in order to function |
| Commercial | Places of business e.g shopping centres |
| Residential | Please where people live |
| Industrial | Heavy or toxic industries |
| Administration | Day to day business and duties e.g governments |
| Low- order functions | Provides smaller settlements such as villages and hamlets with grocery shops, service stations etc |
| High- order functions | Provides cities or metropolises with universities and hospitals |
| Conurbation | Urban area that forms when with a merge of several cities, but keep separate identities e.g. Tokyo |
| Metropolis | Large populations, offer a broad range of high- order functions |
| City | Large urban settlement with clear defined boundaries an public functions |
| Town | Urban settlement smaller than a city larger than a village. Offers low- order functions |
| Village | Small settlement, residential population, small number of low- order functions |
| Hamlet | Tiny settlement, small number of residential/ work buildings with possible other low- order functions |
| Urban Sprawl | Outward invasion causing a city's outskirts to be a continuos state of change as rural land is converted to urban use. Cities progressively growing outwards, spreading into the surrounding countryside and invading adjacent towns, shores, undeveloped land |
| Urban Renewable | Better use of vacant and under- utilised land |
| Urban Consolidation | Planning that enhances use of inner- city land by replacing previous low- density land with medium- density townhouses |
| Gentrification | Rundown buildings in older suburbs which are renovated |
| Primate city | Largest city in each state reasons: it has been built on rivers |
| Ecological Footprint | a measure of the overall environmental impact of human communities including direct local effects, indirect regional, use of recourses and waste it produces |
| Doughnut effect | loss of population and services from inner- city suburbs to outer areas of a city |
| Suburbanisation | Residential sections of the city expand due to: Population grown, lifestyle values, public transport growth |
| Re- urbanisation | Towns and cities experience loss of population but reverse the decline and begin growth |
| Demographic sustainability | regional areas experiencing marked population decline. Less agricultural labour has been required so loss of employment and there for loss of population |
| Sea change phenomenon | Growth of coastal communities. people moving from non- coastal areas and capital cities to the coast |
| Push factors | Encourage people to leave one place - unemployment - expensive housing - Place of life - Overcrowding |
| Pull factors | Attract them to another - Pleasant environemnt - Affordable housing - Relaxed lifestyle - Good climate |
| Hierarchy of Settlements | Vary in size and complexity according to location, political- cultural background, population, infrastructure, services. Ranked according to size and importance. |
| Conurbation | Tokyo |
| Metropolis | Brisbane |
| Large City | Townsville |
| Small City | Gympie |
| Large Town | Proserpine |
| Small Town | Home Hill |
| Village | Wallaville |
| Hamlet | Bulloo Down |
Created by:
ella maree
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