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| Questão | Responda |
| What is the Birth Rate | The Average number of Children born in a year, for every thousand people in the population |
| What is the Death Rate | The average number of people who die in a year, out of every thousand people in the population |
| What is dense population | A lot of people living in a small area |
| what is international migration | when people move from one country to another |
| What is an economic migrant | Someone who moves to another place for work, but who does not plan to live there permanently |
| What is miration | the movement of people from one place to another to live and/or work |
| what are push factors | Bad things about a place which mean that people aren't attracted to live there |
| what is the population density | the number of people living in a certain area, usually expressed as persons per square kilometer |
| what is population distribution | the way people are spread out across an area |
| what is the population explosion | the very rapid growth of population that took place in the 20th century, especially in the last half of the century |
| what is growth rate | the rate that population increases by when births and deaths have been taken into account |
| what are pull factors | good things about a place that attract people to live there |
| what is rural to urban migration | a movement of people from the countryside to towns and cities |
| what is a seasonal migrant | someone who migrates to an area for a set length of time for work, often farm work like fruit picking or helping with the harvest |
| what is a dispersed settlement | an area with very few people living there |
| what is a temporary migrant | someone who migrates to an area but knows they will not stay |
| what is the demographic transition model (DTM) | a model showing how the population in a country changes over time as birth and death rates fall |
| what is stage 1 in the DTM | total population is low but there are high birth rates and high death rates |
| What is stage 2 in the DTM | Total population rises due to death rate falling but birth rate is still high |
| What is stage 3 in the DTM | Total population is rising rapidly as death rate is low but birth rate is decreasing |
| What is stage 4 in the DTM | High total population but birth rate and death rate are low |
| What is stage 5 in the DTM | Falling total population since there is an ageing population but birth rate and death rate are still low |
| what is the dependency ratio | the amount of people who rely on the economically active people (people with jobs) to pay for their needs. The dependency ratio is usually the young or elderly |
| what are the bordering countries of kenya | Tanzania,Uganda,Sudan,Ethiopia,SOMALI REPUBLIC, |
| what are the two lakes/oceans bordering kenya | Indian ocean and Lake victoria |
| Where do the Maasai live | the Nile Valley in the Southwest of Kenya and in the Maasai mara reserve |
| Where do the Kikuyu live | The south and west of kenya |
| Where do the Arabs and Indians live | on the coast near Mombasa |
| what percentage of Kenya's population live in slums | 60% |
| what are Maasai houses called | Manyattas |
| What kind of life do the Maasai live in | A Nomadic life ( they move from place to place) |
| What is the Big 5 | Hippos,lions,elephants,rhinos and cheetahs |
| do maasai move uphill or downhill in dry season | uphill |
| Why don't Maasai traditionally not grow crops | because they beleive land is sacred |
| What does Irrigation mean | The artificial watering of the land |
| What are subsidies | money paid to farmers by the government |
| What are Farm woodland schemes | money given to farmers to plant trees instead of crops |
| What is Agribusinnes | Agriculture conducted on strictly commercial principles |
| What are Mega diaries | buildings that store lots of cows. Staying indoors for the whole of a cows life effects its behaviour and emotions |
| How are some farmers boosting their income by providing leisure activities | Giving donkey rides, converting the farm into a park, making their farm a camping site, giving tours around the farm, selling fresh farm food and giving people opportunities to pick fruits from trees |
| what is organic farming | A method of farming that uses less chemicals, less water, less energy and causes less eco-system disruption |
| what is a leguminous crop | is a crop that puts nitrogen from the air into the soil |
| Name all the types of farming | Pastoral,Subsistence,Arable,Organic,Nomadic and Free Range |
| what is nomadic farming | when a farmer moves from one place to another |
| what is pastoral farming | A farmer who grows livestock instead of crops |
| what is arable farming | when you grow crops |
| what is subsistence farming | when a farmer grows crops and animals to feed their family |
| what is free range farming | A method of farming when animals get to go outside and get fresh air. Uses less chemicals, machines and resources so economically cheaper and better for the environment |
| what are the 3 main industries | Primary,Secondary and Tertiary |
| what is a primary industry | an industry that harvests natural resources e.g farming, mining, fishing. It needs to be near its resources |
| what is a secondary industry | an industry that takes the natural resources and manufactures them into goods e.g. food companies, car companies. |
| what is a tertiary industry | an industry that provides services e.g hospitals, police stations. They need certain qualifications. |
| what is a Quaternary industry | an industry that involves the intellectual services: research, development, and information. They can be built anywhere and would still have the right resources to run the industry e.g amazon |
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