Geography

Question 0

What is enlargement?

Answer 0

When more countries join the EU

Question 1

What is the EU?

Answer 1

A group of 28 countries that come together to make cooperation easier. Goods and people can travel within its borders

Question 2

What are the dates of the EU enlargement?

Answer 2

1957
1973
1981
1986
1995
2004
2007
2013

Question 3

What are the stages of the water cycle?

Answer 3

Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
Surface runoff
Transpiration 
Groundwater

Question 4

What is evaporation?

Answer 4

The process where water changes from a liquid to a vapour

Question 5

What is condensation?

Answer 5

The process by which cooling vapour turns into a liquid

Question 6

What is precipitation?

Answer 6

Water that falls on the Earth surface, e.g. Rain, hail, snow

Question 7

What is surface runoff?

Answer 7

The movement of water over the land, possibly a river

Question 8

What is transpiration?

Answer 8

Plants giving off water vapour from their leaves

Question 9

What is groundwater?

Answer 9

Water that has sunk through the soil into the rocks below

Question 10

What does eurosceptic mean?

Answer 10

Some are concerned that the EU will become a “United States of Europe”

Question 11

What is a drainage basin?

Answer 11

The area drained by a river and it’s tributaries

Question 12

What is the source?

Answer 12

The start of the river

Question 13

What is the tributary?

Answer 13

A small stream that joins a larger river

Question 14

What is the confluence?

Answer 14

The point where two rivers meet

Question 15

What is the mouth?

Answer 15

Where the river joins the sea

Question 16

What is the meander?

Answer 16

A sweep out bend in the river

Question 17

What is the watershed?

Answer 17

The boundary between two drainage basins marked by a ridge of high land

Question 18

What are the four processes of erosion?

Answer 18

Hydraulic Action
Abrasion
Attrition
Corrosion

Question 20

What is hydraulic action?

Answer 20

Involves the force of water against the bed and banks

Question 21

What is abrasion?

Answer 21

The bed and banks are worn down by the river’s load. The river throws these particles against the bed and banks, sometimes at high velocity

Question 22

What is attrition?

Answer 22

Material(the load) carried by the river bump into each other and so are smoothed and broken down into smaller particles

Question 23

What are the four processes of transportation?

Answer 23

Traction
Saltation
Suspension
Solution

Question 24

What is corrosion?

Answer 24

The chemical action of river water. The acids in the water slowly dissolve the bed and the banks

Question 26

What is traction?

Answer 26

Boulders and pebbles are rolled along the river bed at times of high discharge, e.g. A flood

Question 27

What is saltation?

Answer 27

Sand sized particles are bounced along the river bed by the flow of the water

Question 28

What is deposition?

Answer 28

The material a river carries is called its load When it reaches flatter land, the river slows down. It no longer has the energy to carry its load, so it deposits it. The deposited material is called sediment. The river deposits heavier stones first

Question 29

What is the outside of a meander like?

Answer 29

Steep because water erodes the outside by using hydraulic action and abrasion Has the fastest flow Uses lots of energy to create a river cliff

Question 30

What is the inside of a meander like?

Answer 30

Gentle because there is a slower flow which creates less energy The deposition creates a slip off slope(beach) Makes the river shallow

Question 31

What are the causes of floods?

Answer 31

Heavy rain Ice or snow melting Flash floods

Question 32

What factors increase the risk of flooding?

Answer 32

``` Impermeable rock Hard, dry soil Very wet soil Steep slope Cutting down trees Building in the drainage basin ```

Question 33

What are the impacts of flooding?

Answer 33

Animals are drowned or stranded resulting in a loss of money for farmers Mental trauma Property flooded and destroyed Silt/aluminium material is deposited and makes the ground fertile Electric cut off Deaths and injury Water becomes polluted

Question 34

What is suspension?

Answer 34

Fine clay and sand particles are carried along within the water, even at low discharges, e.g. A small stream

Question 35

What is solution?

Answer 35

Some minerals dissolve in water such as calcium carbonate. This requires very little energy