Geography

Question 1

What is Abrasion?

Answer 1

Rocks carried by the glacier wearing away the valley sides

Question 2

What is Lodgement?

Answer 2

A glacier presses material to the valley floor as it advances or retreats

Question 3

What are erratics?

Answer 3

large boulders which are transported by glaciers

Question 4

List 2 uses of Glaciated upland areas

Answer 4

Hiking, Tourism

Question 5

What challenges do Urban Areas face?

Answer 5

Air Pollution, Traffic Congestion

Question 6

Why do urban areas change?

Answer 6

The number of people across different age groups

Where people are living and their lifestyles

Laws and policies changing

Question 7

List the process of the greenhouse effect

Answer 7

1. radiation emitted by the Sun enters the atmosphere and
   travels towards the Earth’s surface

The Earth absorbs some radiation from the Sun, but longer wavelength radiation is reflected back into the atmosphere

Greenhouse gases absorb some reflected long wavelength radiation before re- radiating it in all directions, including back towards Earth

The temperature at the Earth’s surface increases

Question 8

What can microclimates be influenced by?

Answer 8

Buildings (can warm the area from internal heating)

Shelter (redirect or slow wind speed and direction)

Cloud cover (covers the sun consequently cools down the area)

Surface (colour and material of surface may absorb more heat than others)

Aspect (the rising and setting of the sun in contrast to objects or buildings influencing heat and shade)

Question 9

What do you measure Aspect with?

Answer 9

Compass

Question 10

What do you measure Surface with?

Answer 10

Measure by eye

Question 11

What do you measure wind speed with?

Answer 11

Beaufort Scale

Question 12

What do you measure wind direction with?

Answer 12

Compass

Question 13

What do you measure cloud cover with?

Answer 13

Measure by eye

Question 14

What are the 3 types of rainfall and how do they occur

Answer 14

Relief
When rain from the atlantic ocean rises up over mountains, turns into clouds and decends and warms

Convectional
When the sun heats the lands, warm air from the lands rises and turns into clouds, these clouds then rain back on the land

Frontal
When warm and cold air meet, the awm air rises and cools, the cold air forms clouds and the clouds bring heavy rain

Question 15

What does GDP stand for?

Answer 15

Gross Domestic Product

Question 16

What is a glacier?

Answer 16

A glacier is a mass of ice that moves slowly over land.

Question 17

How do glaciers form?

Answer 17

When snow piles up and melts

Question 18

What is erosion?

Answer 18

Erosion is the process in which sediment is moved.

Question 19

What is deposition?

Answer 19

Deposition is the process in which sediments are added to land form.