Defenitions "C"

Question 1

CBD

Answer 1

Central Business District: the commercial and business centre of a town or city, with highest land values

Question 2

Climate

Answer 2

the average weather over many years

Question 3

collision boundary

Answer 3

where continental plates collide, forming mountain chains

Question 4

compass

Answer 4

an instrument used to identify direction

Question 5

condense

Answer 5

gas becoming liquid

Question 6

confluence

Answer 6

the point where two rivers (including tributaries) meet

Question 7

conservative boundary

Answer 7

where two tectonic plates slide past each other, but where crust is neither formed nor destroyed

Question 8

conserve

Answer 8

not to waste resources

Question 9

constructive boundary

Answer 9

where two tectonic plates move apart from each other and new crust is formed

Question 10

containerisation

Answer 10

to transport goods in standard-sized, sealed containers

Question 11

continent

Answer 11

a large land mass (a total of seven)

Question 12

contour line

Answer 12

a line on an OS map joining all points of the same height

Question 13

convection current

Answer 13

heated plumes of magma which create crustal plate movement

Question 14

convectional rain

Answer 14

rain formed by the sun heating the land surface causing moist air to rise, condense and produce heavy rainfall

Question 15

core

Answer 15

the centre of the Earth

Question 16

corrosion

Answer 16

a chemical process involving the dissolving away of sedimentary rocks, e.g. chalk, limestone; a type of erosion by water involving the dissolving away of rock, particularly limestone and chalk

Question 17

crust

Answer 17

the thin outer layer of solid rock round the Earth’s surface