Geography Flashcards
What does population distribution mean
The spread of people across the country
What is population density
Number of people per square km
The start of a river is called….
The source
A water fall is a…
Step in a river
A turn in a river is called a ….
Meander
What is it called when the river meets the see
The mouth of the river
What is the longest river in Britain
The river Severn
What is a tributary
A small river that joins a bigger river
How is a waterfall made
River erodes the soft rock
The hard rock left collapses
Hard rock creates a deep plunge pool
This process repeats
What is an oxbow lake
Where a meander creates a circles and then is cut off from the main river
What happened in Sutton Coldfield in 1954
It rained frogs !
Name the continents
Europe Africa North America South America Asia Antarctica Oceania
3 facts about lines of latitude
Lines that run across the map
Are parallel
Get smaller close to the pole
What degree of latitude is the North Pole
Ninety degrees
What degree of latitude is the equator
Zero degrees
Name the two tropics and their line of latitude
Cancer 23.5 degree north
Capricorn 23.5 degree south
What are three facts about line of longitude
Lines go up and down the earth
Measures from east and west of Greenwich
They all meet at the poles…like slices of a chocolate orange
What the points of a compass
North...moving clockwise North east East South east South west West North west
How is height measured and what are the 3 ways it’s shown on a map
Height is measured from distance from sea level and is measured by
Spot heights
Layer colouring
Contours
What is an ecosystem
It is what sustained life in an area
What is the definition of a desert
An area with less the 250ml rain each year
Where are most rainforests found
In between the trips of cancer and Capricorn
Why is it hot on the equator
Sun is always high in the sky
Small area to heat up
From top to bottom list the layers of the rainforest
Emergents Canopy Lianas Straight trunks Shrub layer Buttress roots
