Geography Flashcards
What is Human Geography?
Human Geography is the study of where and how people live. It is also about people and places and how they affect each other.
What is Physical Geography?
Physical Geography is the study of the Earth’s natural features such as the land, sea and environment around us. Landforms are natural features.
What is population?
Population is the number of people in a particular place.
What is population density?
Population density is the number of people per km square.
What is population distribution?
Population distribution is how a population is spread out over an area.
TEA
Trend
Example
Anomaly
Suggest factors which might affect life expectancy
Diet
Education
Famine
Health Facilities
War
Disease
Infant mortality
Water quality
Sanitation
Terminology related to migration
Migration=movement from one country to another
Immigrants=people who move into a country
Emigrants=people who move out of a country and into another
What is are the 3 layers of a landscape?
Physical layer= where rock type and landscape processes have sculpted a physical landscape
Biological layer=soil amd plants 🌵 and trees 🌴
Human layer=settlements, farms
Which plate does Africa sit
African plate
Which hemisphere is Africa in?
Both!
Which lines go through Africa?
Tropic of Cancer runs through the North of Africa, the Equator runs through the middle and the Tropic of Capricorn goes through the South
How many countries are in Africa?
5️⃣4️⃣
What is the population of Africa?
Africa has a population of 1️⃣.3️⃣ billion
What is a biome?
Biomes are regions of the world with a similar climate, weather, temperatures, animals and plants
Biomes in Africa
The top section of africa is desert
below that is Semi- desert
below that is grassland
below that on the left is rainforest
on the right of the above is woodland / scrub
below that is mainly grassland, desert & & some semi- desert
Relief of Africa
Africa has many high mountain ranges with sharp peaks but also had many plateaus which are very high but generally flat at the top.
Mount Kilimanjaro is located in Tanzania, East Africa
What does relief mean?
The height and shape of the land
What does climate mean?
The climate is the average weather of a place over long periods of time
Rivers
Nile
Niger
Congo
African countries
North Africa… Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Morocco
West Africa… Mali, Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana
Central Africa… Congo
Southern Africa… Zambia, south Africa, Tanzania, Angola
