Key phrases

• Push factor:

  Something that makes you move away from a place
• Pull factor:

  Something wanting to make you move to a different place
• Rural:

  Countryside
• Urban

  A town or city
• Urbanisation:

  When an increasing percentage of a country's population live in towns and cities
• Natural increase:

  The rate at which the population naturally goes up (birth rate - death rate)
• Challenges:

  A difficulty or negative that has been created in a city
• Opportunities:

  A benefit or positive that could come out of living in the city
• Economic development:

  The growth of new technologies which generates a change from an agricultural based economy to an industrial economy
• Quality of life:

  How happy you are
• Migration:

  The movement of people from one place to another
• National migration:

  When people migrate within the same country or region
• International migration:

  People migrating from one country to another
• Standard of living:

  How much money you have
• Deindustrialisation:

  The reduction of industrial activity or capacity in a region or economy
• Dereliction:

  Abandoned buildings and wasteland
• Brownfield site:

  Land that's been used, abandoned and now awaits some new use
• Greenfield site:

  Land often rural or on the edge of an urban area that's not yet been built on
• Waste management:

  Disposing or getting rid of all the waste that we all create
• Urban sprawl:

  The unplanned growth of urban areas into the surrounding countryside
• Atmosphere:

  A blanket of gases surrounding the Earth
• Solar radiation:

  The sun emitting heat and is our prime source of energy
• Global atmosphere circulation:

  The atmosphere moving around the planet creating winds
• Corrolosis effect:

  High latitude=cold (further from the equator

  Low latitude=warmer(closer to the equator)
• Corrolosis effect

  
• Flash floods:

  caused by an unusually high amount of rainfall in a short period of time
• Heatwaves:

  A period of unusually high temperatures
• Extreme snow:

  A period of unusually low temperatures
• Drought:

  Caused by a prolonged period withe a lack of rainfall
• Thunder and lightning:

  Heavy rain with thunder and lightning caused by hot humid conditions
• Extreme weather:

  When a weather event is significantly different from the average or usual weather pattern, and is especially severe or unseasonal
• Hazard risk:

  The chance of being effected by a natural event
• Natural risk:

  The probability of a hazard event occuring and the likely effects it would have
• Natural disaster:

  When a natural event, or hazard impacts on human activities
• Geological hazards:

  Hazards involving movement on the surface of the earth
• Atmospheric hazards:

  Hazards that begin life in the sky
• Hydrological hazards:

  Hazards that are caused by water