Geography year 8

Question 1

What is weather

Answer 1

Weather is the day to day changes in the atmosphere

Question 2

What is climate

Answer 2

Climate is the average weather for a place over a long time like how hot it is on average.

Question 3

What is an ecosystem

Answer 3

A total interconnected environment including soils vegetation animals humans and climate, together with their interaction they vary in size and range from whole biomes like a rainforest to a pond

Question 4

Layers in a rainforest

Answer 4

Emergent
Canopy
Understory
Forest floor

Question 5

Threats to the rainforest

Answer 5

Oil spills and toxic waste are paid for the environment but oil is what makes Brazil rich

Question 6

Tribes

Answer 6

The Yanomami in the Amazon rainforest grow their own crops like bananas and hunt. They are lead by a common ancestor

Question 7

Climate of a dessert

Answer 7

Deserts are often hot dry and have an abundance of sun but a lack of rain. The Sahara gets around 250 mL of rain yeah and has temperatures of 30 to 40°C with highs of 50°C at night it has loads of -4°C in other deserts like the Atacama in South America has never rained

Question 8

Adaptations

Answer 8

Camels have adapted to the extreme deserts with things like pads that they have on their feet and chest this allows them to walk on the burning sand and lay down they have two eyelids and thick eyelashes to keep sand out in the sandstorm.

Question 9

What are the plate boundaries

Answer 9

Convergent is when two plates collide
Divergent is when plates move apart
Transform slide past each other

Question 10

Scales

Answer 10

The mercalli scale is an observation of damage has been done from 1-12. This is opinion
The rhicter scale measures the magnitude of earthquakes

Question 11

Primary effects

Answer 11

Broken roads
Bent railroads
Bridges topple
Buildings fall

Question 12

Secondary

Answer 12

Fires
Repairs needed
Tsunamis
Homelessness

Question 13

What time did Kobe earthquake happen

Answer 13

17th of January 1995 at 5:46

Question 14

What did the Kobe Earthquake measure

Answer 14

7.2 rhicter scale

Question 15

Why is Japan prone to earthquakes

Answer 15

It’s on a triple subduction and the pacific, Philippines and Eurasian plates are right underneath Japan. It’s near a destructive plate margin

Question 16

Effects of the Kobe earthquake

Answer 16

Topples roadways
5,500 deaths
Traditional houses have a pancake effect

Question 17

Responses of the Kobe Eathquake

Answer 17

Emergency services search for people under houses but are delayed because they couldn’t get through the town
Water manes are burst which makes fire fighters useless

Question 18

3 types of rainfall

Answer 18

Conventional
Relief
Frontal

Question 19

Frontal rainfall

Answer 19

When hot and cold air meet and rise. The moisture cools and forms clouds. It starts light and gets heavier. Common in Uk

Question 20

Relief Rainfall

Answer 20

Wind carries moisture into the hills which results in condensation and precipitation. Behind the hill the moisture dries. This is known as a rain shadow

Question 21

Types of biomes

Answer 21

Polar
Tundra
Desert
Tropical Rainforest