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♡Geography Revision♡ Flashcards

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What is Physical Geography?

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

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What is Human Geography?

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

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What is Environmental Geography?

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

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What are some examples of Phyisical geography?

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

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What are some examples of Human Geography?

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

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What are some examples of Environmental Geography?

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Pollution, Energy, Deforestation and Climate change

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What is a continent?

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Large continuous Land-masses

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What is an Ocean?

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A large body of open sea water.

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What is the difference between a Sea and an Ocean?

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

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Why are map signs important?

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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

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What can a national hazard cause?

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social + economic effects

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Is a natural hazard man-made

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No

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What is a natural event

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

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What is a natural hazard?

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

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What is a Natural Disaster

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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

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What is the 4 layers of the earth

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Crust, outer core, mantle and inner core

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17
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Is the crust solid or liquid?

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Solid.

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What is the crust made of?

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Basalt + granite

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What temperature is the crust?

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15 Celcius

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Is the outer core liquid or solid?

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Liquid

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What is the outer core made of?

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Iron + nickel

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What temperature is the outer core?

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2300 Celcius

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Is the mantle Solid or liquid?

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Both, solid on bottom and liquid on the top

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What is the mantle made from?

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Magnesium, iron, silicon, oxygen

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What temperature is the mantle?

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1000 - 3700 Celcius

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What is the inner core made of?

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Metal - Iron + nickel

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Is the inner core solid or liquid?

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Solid

28
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What temperature is the inner core?

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6000 Celcius

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What are the two types of crust?

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Oceanic crust + continental crust

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What is oceanic crust made of?

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Basalt

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What is continental crust made of?

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Granite

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What is continental drift?

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The movement, collision and division of continents

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What is sentimentary rock?

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Rocks made of layers of sediment and dead creatures

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What is igneous?

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Rocks that are made from magma that has cooled and solidified

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Where are volcanoes and earthquakes normally found?

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Plate boundaries

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What is a dormant volcano?

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

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What is an extinct volcano?

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

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What is an active volcano?

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A volcano which is liable to erupt

39
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What are 8 types of natural disasters?

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

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What is a destructive plate boundary?

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Plates move together and one sinks below the other.

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What is a constructive plate boundary?

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The plates move away from each other

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What is a collision plate boundary?

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

43
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What is a conservative plate
Boundary?

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Where 2 plates slide against eachother

44
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Why do people live near volcanoes?

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

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