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| Mountain landscape | Created from tectonic plates. Push together and force the earth upwards to form mountain ranges |
| Tectonic plates | Slow moving plates that make up the earths surface (crust |
| Coastal landscape | Where a land mass meets the sea. These landscapes are continually being shaped by forces of the wind and the waves |
| Riverine landscape | Landscape formed by the natural path of a water system eg river |
| Desert landscape | Landscape that Land that receives less than 25ml of rain a year |
| Built landscape | Landscape created by humans eg buildings, motorways and railways for example |
| Value | Term that means means to highly regard or consider important |
| Aesthetic | Landscape value that is good for our well-being to be in. eg blue mountains, national forest, great barrier reef |
| Cultural | Landscape value of significant meaning to particular society or group in particular art, literature and films |
| Economic | Landscape value that means commercial/financial value (generates money or jobs in the area) eg tourism, mining or forestry |
| Spiritual | Landscape value that means sacred or supernatural meaning – dreamtime landscapes eg Uluru |
| Land degradation | Term that means the physically and aesthetically quality of the land is reduced, caused by human activity, mining or overgrazing. |
| Deforestation | The clearing of woodland to make way for farming, grazing or building new settlements. The act of deforestation can cause soil erosion. |
| Soil erosion | the removal of topsoil from an area and what remains is low in nutrients |
| Tectonic plates | Earth's surface is cracked into large pieces . Plates slowly move, creating mountains and island |
| Diverging plates | Term to describe tectonic plates pulling apart from one another |
| Converging plates | Name of tectonic plates, COLLIDING or pushing against one another |
| Mountains | Block,-fault fold and volcanic are all forms of these |
| Block-Fault | these mountains formed by pressure beneath the ground in the crust forces the land upwards due to temperature differences and crack |
| Fold | these mountains formed by plates colliding pushing the collision point upwards |
| Volcanic | These mountains formed by magma beneath the ground is forced through a vent spilling lava onto the surface |
| Urbanisation | Term that describes the increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities. |
| 50% | Percentage a country’s population needs to be living in urban areas for it to be considered urbanised? |
| Pull factors | Reasons why people are attracted to urban locations in towns and cities |
| Push factors | Reasons why people moved from rural locations to the city |
| Population density | A measurement of population per unit land area. |
| Megacity | A city with more than 10 million people |
| Urban sprawl | The growth of a city onto productive farmland on the city fringes |
| Megalopolis | A collection of large cities that are close together effectively forming one continuous urban area. |
| Exurbs | Small towns separated from the metropolitan areas by open spaces and farmland but connected by road and rail |
| Suburb | Large areas of residential housing just beyond the city centre. |
| Infrastructure | The facilities and services necessary for any town or city to function The facilities and services necessary for any town or city to function |
| Overcrowding, pollution and crime | Disadvantages of living in a city |
| To be close to work, looking for work | Economic reasons for moving to the city |
| To be close to family, access to health services and entertainment | Social reasons for moving to the city |
| City impact on environment | Certain amounts of native plants and animals were destroyed in the process Cities change the landscape through large amounts of infrastructure |
