Geo Examantion
Michael Inagna
Terms
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- Scattered Settlement
- A pattern of settlements in which houses and other buildings are placed a long distance apart from each other.
- Commuting
- The daily movement to or from a place of work or study.
- Situation
- the location of a building or city in relation to surrounding places
- Birth Rate
- The total number of births per 1000 people in a country's population.
- Population Density
- a measure of how many people live in a unit of area, usually a square km.
- Foreign Investment
- One country allowing people from other countries to invest or put money into the industries
- Bilingual
- Involving two languages.
- Mixed economy
- An economic system that combines private ownership with government control.
- Gross National Product
- The sum of value of all goods and services produced in a country in a year measured in US dollars.
- Travel Hub
- An airport that is at the centre of routes from many directions.
- Kimberlite pipe
- A roughly cylinadrical plug of rare rock called "kimberlite". The pipe-shaped plug is formed by a cooling magma and may contain diamonds.
- Command economy
- An economic system in which the goverment owns and controls all parts of the economy.
- Baby Boom
- A period of 20 years, following World War Two, during which there was an unusual number of births.
- Franchise
- The right to sell a partiulcar good or service.
- Entrepeneur
- A person who takes a risk to start and run a business
- Site
- the ground on which a city is built.
- Landscape
- Things that we see when we look around.
- Tourist
- A person who visits another place. The vist lasts more than one night but less than a year.
- Market economy
- An economic system in which private indivuals set up, own and direct bussiness that produce goods and services that consumers want.This system is also called "free enterprise" or "capitalisim".
- Imports
- Things brought into a country.
- Linear Settlement
- A pattern of settlements in which homes and other buildings follow the lines taken by the road
- Aerodynamic
- Designed to make the movement of a vehicle through air fast and smooth.
- Scarcity
- The limits in the amount of resources we have.
- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- A trade agreement signed by Canada, the USA and Mexico.
- Thrust
- A force created in a jet engine that drives or pushes a vehicle forward.
- Death Rate
- The total number of deaths per 1000 people in a country's population.
- Standard of Living
- The extent to people have the goods and services they need and want.
- Outputs
- The products leaving a manufacturing system that result from processes
- Collateral
- Something owned by a person taking out a loan that can be seized if the person does not repay the loan.
- Clustered Settlement
- A pattern in which houses and other buildings are laid closely together
- Teritary Industries
- Industries that provide services.
- Census
- A count of all the people in a country, together with some details about them
- Population Pyramid
- A set of 2 bar graphs placed back to back against a vertical axis. 1 shows the number of males and the other shows the number of females, in different groupings in a different country.
- Open-door immigration
- Immigration that is free or unrestricted
- Official Languages
- The languages in which the federal government conducts its business.
- Literacy Rate
- The percentage of people over 15 who can read and write.
- Inputs
- the factors of production put into a manufacturing system.
- Traditional economy
- An economic system in which people's methods of working have changed little from one generation to the next. Workers in a traditional economy try to produce a little more than what is needed for substience.
- Mobility
- The ability to move.
- Economics
- The buying and selling of goods and services
- Central Bussiness District
- The central part of a city that is the focus of transport routes. It contains the cities most valuable land and the leading bussiness.
- Utilities
- Things that are useful to us. For Example, water,gas and eletricity.
- Life Expectancy
- The average number of years a person is likely to live.
- Impact benefits agreement
- A voluntary agreement signed by a mining company and a local Aborignal group. The mining company agrees to minimixe the mine's impact on ecosystems and may guarantee employment to local residents for funding for enviromental research.
- Secondary Industries
- Industries that convert raw materials into finished products
- Tariffs
- A tax put on an import. By making imports more expensive, tariffs protect a country's industries and jobs.
- Exports
- Things sent out of a country.
- Modes of Transportation
- The specific means by which people move from one place to another
- Subsitence economy
- An economic system in which people's labour only produces enough food, clothing, and shelter for the workers own needs.
- Primary Industries
- Industries that harvest raw materials or natural resources
- Urbinization
- the growth of cities. This term can also mean the adoption of a urban lifestyle
- Ripple Effect
- A chain of effects or events that results from an initial event. The chain is like the ripples caused by throwing a stone into a pond.