Geography test

Question 1

Birth Rate

Answer 1

The number of births in a country in a year per thousand people

Question 2

Death Rate

Answer 2

The number of deaths in a country in a year per thousand people

Question 3

Population distribution

Answer 3

How people are spread around the in a country or area

Question 4

Population density

Answer 4

The average number of people per square kilometre

Question 5

Densely populated

Answer 5

Lots of people live there

Question 6

Sparsely populated

Answer 6

Very few people live there

Question 7

Fetch

Answer 7

The length of the water the wind blows over, before it meets the coast

Question 8

Erosion

Answer 8

Wearing away of rock stones and soil by rivers waves the wind or glaciers

Question 9

Transport

Answer 9

The carrying away of material by rivers waves the wind or glaciers

Question 10

Deposition

Answer 10

To drop material; waves deposit sand and small stones in sheltered parts of the coast forming beaches

Question 11

Tides

Answer 11

The rise and fall of sea levels, due to mainly the pull of the moon

Question 12

Hydraulic action`

Answer 12

Water is forced into cracks in rocks. this brakes them up

Question 13

Abrasion

Answer 13

Sand and pebbles are flung against rock. this wears away like sand paper on wood

Question 14

Attrition

Answer 14

Chunks of small rock get knocked together and break into smaller bits

Question 15

Swash

Answer 15

Waves coming towards the shore

Question 16

Backwash

Answer 16

The motion of receding waves

Question 17

Spit

Answer 17

A strip of sand or shingle at sea

Question 18

Cave

Answer 18

A hole in a rock face caused by erosion

Question 19

Arch

Answer 19

The curved outline left when the sea erodes the inside of a cave away

Question 20

Stack

Answer 20

A pillar of rock left standing in the sea when the top of the arch collapses

Question 21

Beach

Answer 21

An area of sand or small stones, deposited by waves

Question 22

Bay

Answer 22

A smooth curve of coast between to headlands

Question 23

Salt marsh

Answer 23

A low lying marshy area by the sea, With salty water from the tides

Question 24

Shingle

Answer 24

Small pebbles

Question 25

Long-shore drift

Answer 25

How sand and other material is carried parallel to the shore by the waves

Question 26

Spring tides

Answer 26

High tides higher, low tides lower

Question 27

Neap tides

Answer 27

High tides lower, low tides higher

Question 28

groynes

Answer 28

barriers of wood or stone down a beach, to stop sand being washed away