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Flashcards by Dylan Hardy, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Dylan Hardy
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| Question | Answer |
| What is decomposing ? | When nutrients get gathered and put back in the ground |
| What’s a herbivore? | A Organism that only eats plants ? |
| What is a omnivore? | An animal or person that eats a variety of food of both plant and animal origin. |
| What is a carnivore? | A organism that feeds on other plants |
| What is detritus? | Waste or debris of any kind |
| What is a scavenger? | A scavenger is defined as an animal that feeds on the remains of other animals or eats decomposing plant or animal matter. |
| Explain what nutrient recycling is? | A cycle that takes place to put nutrients back into the ground like a animal will die and its nutrients will go back into the soil for plants to grow |
| What is a LIC? | A LIC is a low income country such as slums |
| What is a NEE? | A nee is a newly emerging economy [ An emerging economy is one in which the country is becoming a developed nation often driven by relatively high economic growth and a rapid expansion of trade and investment flows. ] |
| What is a HIC? | A HIC stands for high income country which is a developed country and very urban |
| What does urban mean? | A town or a city |
| What is a slum? | An overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people very polluted or diseased |
| What is urbanisation? | Its a process to make a rural area or urban more urban |
| What is a rural area? | Rural areas are traditionally areas not included in the urban definition, and are usually large, open areas with few houses and few people, as opposed to urban areas which have larger populations |
| Name a adaption a cactus has to survive? | Shallow roots that cover a large surface area |
| What is a decomposer? | an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material. |
| What is a food chain? | A line of linkages that are dependent on each other to survive |
| What is a food web? | A web of linkages that organisms rely on each other to survive |
| What is abiotic? | Non living organisms in the ecosystem such as sun and rain |
| What is biotic? | Living organisms in the ecosystem like animals |
| What is a biome? | a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat, e.g. forest or tundra. |
| Vegetation in tundra? | a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen |
| What does vegetation mean? | plants considered collectively, especially those found in a particular area or habitat |
| What is a ecosystem? | a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment |
| Vegetation in the desert? | Not many animals and scarse amount of plants and organisms |
| How have plants adapted in coniferous forest? | Coniferous trees have thick bark to protect against the cold. They are cone-shaped, with flexible branches which help them to cope with heavy snow fall. |
| What is brownfield site? | lands that have been used and now waits for a new use commonly found across urban areas |
| What is dereliction? | abandoned buildings and waste land |
| Economic opportunities? | chances for people to improve their standard of living through employment |
| What is formal economy? | This refers to type of employment where people have to work to receieve a regular wage and are assured certain rights |
| What is greenfield site? | A plot of land, often rural or on the edge of a urban area that has not yet subject to any building devolopment? |
| What is inequalities? | differences between poverty and wealth |
| What is informal economy? | this is a type of employment comprises work done without the official knowledge of the government and therefore without paying taxes its common in many lics |
| What is a mega city? | An urban area with a total population of 10million+ |
| What is pollution? | The presence of chemicals, noise , dirt or other substances which have harmful or poisonous effects on the enviroment |
| What is urban sprawl? | The unplanned growth of urban areas into the surrounding countryside |
| What is waste recycling? | The process of extracting and reusing found in waste |
| Traffic congestion? | occurs when there is a lot of traffic for roads to cope with so there is a traffic jam |
| What is urban regeneration? | The revival of old parts or even putting in new modern buildings |
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