urban sprawl when cities expand, the urban landscape invades the surrounding land, changing or removing natural ecosystems and swallowing up farmland. This expansion is known as urban sprawl. urban relating to a city or town; the definition of an urban area varies from one country to another depending on population size and density urbanisation the growth and expansion of urban areas and the increasing proportion of people living in urban areas as compared to rural areas utilities services (such as power or water) provided by the government or private suppliers values individual beliefs that help to guide our actions variables (in Geography) characteristics that can be measured and provide information about a place, beyond just the location of that place vassal a person who holds land for a lord, and in return pledges loyalty and service to him vernacular everyday language spoken by a particular group or class volcanic loam volcanic soil composed mostly of basalt, which has developed a crumbly mixture wants goods or services that are desired in order to provide satisfaction to the user, but which are not necessary for survival or to meet the basic standard of living in a community washi handmade paper created from the bark or fibre of various shrubs, grasses or trees watershed an area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers weathering the breaking down of bare rock (mainly by water freezing and cooling as a result of temperature change) and the effects of climate
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