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What proportion of the world’s population lives in Asia?

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60%

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Asia has coastlines with which oceans?

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Arctic, Indian, Pacific

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List five Asian countries

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Any that apply. e.g Sri Lanka, India, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia

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What is the tallest mountain in Asia?

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Mt Everest

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What is the largest mountain range in Asia?

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The Himalayas

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What is the longest river in Asia?

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The Yangtze river

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Which two of asia’s countries are most densely populated?

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China and India

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Name 3 of Asia’s biomes.

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Tundra - bitterly cold; ground is frozen
Taiga - thick coniferous forests; hot, damp summers; long, cold winters
Steppe - plains of grassland; few trees but very dry

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Which compass point is driest in China?

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North

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Name 5 western Chinese provinces.

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Tibet
Sichuan
Yunnan
Guizhou
Congqing

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Define Urbanisation

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An increase in the proportion of people living in Urban areas compared to rural areas

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How is human activity affecting the rainforests in Asia?

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Deforestation is affecting the rainforests in asia and many forests are being destroyed due to this

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Give a fact about the physical geography in China

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The tibetan plateau has many glaciers, making it good for the people.
The climate gets drier as you go north

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Is China in the east or west of Asia?

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East

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What is the main industry in Sichuan?

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Metal ores and factories

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Name one of the issues facing the people of Tibet

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They have a high altitude and this makes having livestock and growing crops difficult. This can make

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What is a fetch?

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The area in the ocean where waves are created

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What three things affect the size or waves?

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  1. the size of the fetch
  2. the power of the wind
  3. the longer the wind blows for
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What are tides?

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The gravitational pull of the moon and sun affect the tides. The moon is further away so it has less of an effect

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What is hydraulic action?

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A form of erosion when water is forced into cracks, freezes and expands this leads to the cracks growing

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What is solution?

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When rocks are dissolved in the ocean

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What is abrasion?

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When rocks hit the cliff face and knock pieces off

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What is attrition?

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When the rocks in the sea crash against each other, wearing them down

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Explain the process of longshore drift

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The prevailing wind pushes the water into the shore, carrying the sediment with it. Then the backwash pushes this back out at a 90 degree angle to the shore. This continues down the coastline

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Where do bays form?
Bays form where the rock is softer and can be eroded more easily
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Where do headlands form?
Where the rock is harder and can't be eroded
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What forms behind a spit?
A salt marsh
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Name two human activities that affect the coastline
Pollution and watersports
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Name two examples of hard engineering
Sea wall, rock armour
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Name two examples of soft engineering
Beach replenishment and dune preservation
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Why did towns and cities start to grow in the UK in the 1800s?
The industrial revolution
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What was life like in cities like Manchester for the workers that moved there?
Awful. The conditions were unsanitary and there was disease everywhere
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Define regeneration
Regeneration is upgrading existing features
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Give an example of regeneration in Manchester
Media city
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Which continent has the highest level of urbanisation?
South America
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Which continent has the lowest level of urbanisation?
Africa
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Define rural area
Countryside - low population and small settlements.
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Define Urban area
Cities and towns - high population
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Define Urbanisation
an increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas compared to rural areas.
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What was the Industrial revolution?
A period of transition to effective machinery and mass manufacturing instead of handmade goods.
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When and where did the industrial revolution start?
1760 (18th centuary) It started in Britain
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How did the Industrial Revolution affect Manchester?
The population increased by loads, people came from rural areas for work at the cotton mills (machines that had been invented in the industrial revolution). Manchester became a city.
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What is regeneration and can you give examples of this in Manchester?
Regeneration - strategies to improve an area e.g Media city (attracting lots of people for jobs and lots of investments for the city)
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What is the pattern of urbanisation around the world?
Urbanisation has happened everywhere - more of the population is living in Urban areas. South American and America have the most people living in Urban areas.
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What are the benefits and disadvantages of living in urban areas?
Advantages - well paid jobs, easier to find work, healthcare, education Disadvantages - expensive, crime, competition for housing
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What are slums?
Over crowded temporary housing, very poor and house are built out of random materials.
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Where do slums form?
In Urban areas (cities)
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What are the conditions of slums?
Very poor, living amongst sewage (lots of disease), high crime, not sanitary.
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What does sustainable mean?
Sustainability means meeting our own needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
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In what ways can cities be sustainable?
- cut car use (good and cheap public transport, cycle lanes) - energy efficient housing - more trees, plant in parks and green roofs
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Example of a sustainable city?
Madscar City
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What causes waves?
wind
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What effects how strong the waves are?
- how long the wind has been blowing - the fetch (the length of water the wind has been blowing on) - how strong the wind was
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Hydraulic action
Water is forced into the cracks by waves
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Abrasion
The waves flick pebbles and rock at the rock, wearing it away like sand paper.
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Attrition
The rock that has been broken off the cliff is worn down to sand and pebbles by other rocks.
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Solution
The water dissolves the rock
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Transportation
The sand and sediment is transported along the beach
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Deposition
waves carry the material on and off the beach, this is how a beach forms.
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longshore drift
Gravity cause the waves the leave the beach at 90 degrees (backwash), the waves come back to the beach at an angle (swash) , this is how things are transported along the coast.
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Headlands and bays form
The rock has different strengths so the softer rock is eroded quick forming a bay and the harder rock erodes slower leaving a headland
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How stumps are formed?
1) a crack is formed by erosion 2) the crack gets bigger into a cave by hydraulic action 3) The cave gets eroded forming an arch 4) the arch collapses leaving a stack 5) The stack gets eroded leaving a stump
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How wave cut platforms are formed?
1) The waves create wave notches into the cliff, they get deeper and deeper 2) The rock above them collapses 3) The process keeps happening, the cliff slowly retreats leaving a wave cut platform
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How are spits formed?
1) sand is deposited at the end of a headland as it disrupts longshore drift 2) The end of the spit is curved by the waves 3) Sand and mud builds up behind the spit forming a slat marsh
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What do we use the coast for?
- recreation - trading - businesses (fishing industry)
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Hard engineering
- groynes - sea wall - rip rap
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Advantages and disadvantages of hard engineering
- expensive, visible, disrupts natural process - more effective than soft
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Soft engineering
- artificial reef - beach nourishment
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Advantages and disadvantages of soft engineering
- less effective, needs to be maintained - works with beaches natural process, more affordable

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