Terms

• The growth in the number of people who live in cities and towns: Urban Growth
• The growth in the number of people who live in cities and towns: Urban growth
• A tax on goods that are imported into a country, designed to make them more expensive than similar products made locally.: Tariff
• the trapping of heat by the Earth’s thickened atmosphere.  This is caused by pollution: Green house effect
• They produce products using the natural resources from the Primary Industry. For example, building things, making products: Secondary Industry
• the measure of how often any new money gets spent and respent in a community before it leaks out: Multiplier Affect
• is the measurement of a land area: Hectare
• The number of people per square kilometer: Population Density
• the characteristics of a community that contribute to the quality of life of the people who live there: Livability
• Land used to build places for schools, government, hospitals, places of worship: Institutional Land use
• Population increases naturally when there are more births than deaths: Natural Increase rate
• refers to long-term changes in climate, including average temperature and precipitation: Climate change
• dentifying the extent to which countries provide their residents with long life expectancy and high quality of life: Happy planet Index
• The measure of three key aspects of a country’s standard of living : economy, health, and education: Human Development Index
• Is the measure of the happiness of a population: Gross national happiness
• An area of rural land around a city that cannot be built on: Greenbelt
• a situation in which a country is better off focusing its efforts in fields where it is most competitive: Comparative Advantage
• Governments (mainly municipal) pass laws which restricts the land use in certain areas in order to avoid conflicts: Zoning
• The process of moving people from rural to urban places: Urbanization
• what is the eastern side of the western mountains called?: Leeward
• what is the formula for population density?: Population divided by area
• the increase of the earths average temperature due to build up of greenhouse gasses is called: Global warming
• What are the cardinal points of a compass rose?: N, S,E,W
• Latitude and longitude are measured using : Degrees
• the value of a country's currency is driven up by growth of exports: Dutch disease
• the movement of sediment that has been broken off rocks, earths crust and soil by win, water and glaciation:

  erosion
• hose that do not change form when melted, examples include gravel, diamonds and potash: Non metallic Minerals
• A ________________ shows a small details of a large area: Small scale map
• used to determine the expected growth of a country population: Doubling time
• to protect and be responsible of our land for future generations is called : Stewardship
• another form of energy using the suns rays: Solar energy
• which land is the most expensive in a city: Central Business District
• your impact on the earth measured in hectares: Ecological footprint