♡Geography Revision♡

Question 1

What is Physical Geography?

Answer 1

Physical Geograpy is about nature. It also looks at natural disasters

Question 2

What is Human Geography?

Answer 2

Human Geography is about People, where they live, how they develop and how they earn a living.

Question 3

What is Environmental Geography?

Answer 3

Environmental geography is about how nature can impact humans and how humans can impact nature.

Question 4

What are some examples of Phyisical geography?

Answer 4

Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Rivers, Coastal Erosion, Weather and Climate and Flooding

Question 5

What are some examples of Human Geography?

Answer 5

Settlement, Population, Growth, Migration and Different countries and cultures.

Question 6

What are some examples of Environmental Geography?

Answer 6

Pollution, Energy, Deforestation and Climate change

Question 7

What is a continent?

Answer 7

Large continuous Land-masses

Question 8

What is an Ocean?

Answer 8

A large body of open sea water.

Question 9

What is the difference between a Sea and an Ocean?

Answer 9

A sea is smaller than an Ocean and is usually located where the land an ocean meets. Additionally, seas are partially enclosed by land

Question 10

Why are map signs important?

Answer 10

Map signs help foriengors know where they’re going if they’re in a country where they don’t know the language of. Additionally, map signs are useful if incase a word (or 2) is too long to write on a sign in which case they can just use a sign

Question 11

What can a national hazard cause?

Answer 11

social + economic effects

Question 12

Is a natural hazard man-made

Answer 12

No

Question 13

What is a natural event

Answer 13

A non-made event that doesn’t pose a threat to humans

Question 14

What is a natural hazard?

Answer 14

A non man made event that has social and economic effects.

Question 15

What is a Natural Disaster

Answer 15

A non man made event which causes more than than 10 deaths or more than 100 are socially affected or £1 million of economic losses

Question 16

What is the 4 layers of the earth

Answer 16

Crust, outer core, mantle and inner core

Question 17

Is the crust solid or liquid?

Answer 17

Solid.

Question 18

What is the crust made of?

Answer 18

Basalt + granite

Question 19

What temperature is the crust?

Answer 19

15 Celcius

Question 20

Is the outer core liquid or solid?

Answer 20

Liquid

Question 21

What is the outer core made of?

Answer 21

Iron + nickel

Question 22

What temperature is the outer core?

Answer 22

2300 Celcius

Question 23

Is the mantle Solid or liquid?

Answer 23

Both, solid on bottom and liquid on the top

Question 24

What is the mantle made from?

Answer 24

Magnesium, iron, silicon, oxygen

Question 25

What temperature is the mantle?

Answer 25

1000 - 3700 Celcius

Question 26

What is the inner core made of?

Answer 26

Metal - Iron + nickel

Question 27

Is the inner core solid or liquid?

Answer 27

Solid

Question 28

What temperature is the inner core?

Answer 28

6000 Celcius

Question 29

What are the two types of crust?

Answer 29

Oceanic crust + continental crust

Question 30

What is oceanic crust made of?

Answer 30

Basalt

Question 31

What is continental crust made of?

Answer 31

Granite

Question 32

What is continental drift?

Answer 32

The movement, collision and division of continents

Question 33

What is sentimentary rock?

Answer 33

Rocks made of layers of sediment and dead creatures

Question 34

What is igneous?

Answer 34

Rocks that are made from magma that has cooled and solidified

Question 35

Where are volcanoes and earthquakes normally found?

Answer 35

Plate boundaries

Question 36

What is a dormant volcano?

Answer 36

A volcano which hasn’t erupted for 100s or 1000s of years but may erupt again.

Question 37

What is an extinct volcano?

Answer 37

A volcano which hasn’t erupted for over 10,000 years.

Question 38

What is an active volcano?

Answer 38

A volcano which is liable to erupt

Question 39

What are 8 types of natural disasters?

Answer 39

Lava, Pyroclastic flow, Lamar, Tsunami, Volcanic Gases, Volcanic Landslides, Ash fall and earthquakes.

Question 40

What is a destructive plate boundary?

Answer 40

Plates move together and one sinks below the other.

Question 41

What is a constructive plate boundary?

Answer 41

The plates move away from each other

Question 42

What is a collision plate boundary?

Answer 42

When 2 continental plates collide and neither can sink so the land collides upwards to form a mountain.

Question 43

What is a conservative plate Boundary?

Answer 43

Where 2 plates slide against eachother

Question 44

Why do people live near volcanoes?

Answer 44

Because of tourism, land formation, raw materials, fertile soil and geothermal energy.