Year 8 Geography

• The number of people living in a place

  Population
• Where people live and how well it's spread out

  Population Distrubution
• How many people live in an area and if it's distributed evenly

  Population density
• An area were not many people live

  Sparsely populated
• An area where a lot of people live

  Densly populated
• The number of deaths per year

  Death rate
• The difference between the birth and death rate

  Natural increase/decrease
• Someone who moves from one place to another with the plan to live there

  Migrant
• Someone who moves to live permanently in another country

  Immigrant
• People that choose to move to seek work

  Economic migrants
• Someone who has to move because of war or natural disasters

  Refugees
• Negative factors that makes you want to leave a place

  Push factor
• Positive factors that makes you want to move somewhere

  Pull factor
• When more people move to cities

  Urbanisation
• When people move from the countryside to towns/cities

  Rural to urban migration
• Providing for the needs of people today but will not harm future generations

  Sustainability
• The transmission of ideas, meanings and values around the world

  Cultural globalisation
• Growing numbers of people more within countries and across boarders

  Migration globalisation
• The spread of the flow of goods

  Products globalisation
• An independence of nations around the globe fostered through free trade

  Trade globalisation
• The degree to which the whole world lives under the same set of legal rules

  Law globalisation
• A TNC moves part of the company to another country

  Outsourcing
• The invention of the standard shipping container

  Containerisation
• The day-to-day conditions in a place

  Weather
• The average weather in a region over a long period of time

  Climate
• The height/elevation of the ground above sea level

  Relief
• Slowly moving masses made up of compacted snow and ice

  Glacier
• When there is a change in the volume of water in the oceans (e.g post glacial)

  Eustatic change
• When an area of land rises or falls causing a relative change to sea level

  Isostatic change
• Ice compresses the land causing it to sink

  Isostatic rebound
• A measure of how much energy a gas absorbs compared to CO2. The higher the number, the greater the warming effect

  Global Warming Potential
• A large ecosystem with its own distinctive climate, plants and animals

  Biome
• The process of establishing control over foreign territories or people

  Colonisation