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What is layer colouring

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Can also be called layer shading areas of different heights are shown by bands of different colours there always needs to be a key

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What are contour lines

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Lines on a map joining points of equal heights above or below sea level the closer together the lines are the steeper it is

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What countries surround Kenya?

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Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somali Republic, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique

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How tall is mount Kenya?

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5199

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What are the two largest lakes in Kenya called?

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Lake Victoria and lake Turkana

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What ocean is on the coast of Kenya?

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The Indian Ocean

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What caused the Rift Valley in Kenya?

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Kenya used to be very flat but a plate collided with another causing the plate to buckle and form a huge arched shape. The rocks were under great stress and caused the rocks to crack called faults. The faults slipped down making steps magma forced its way though the faults making volcanic mountains depressions on the floor filled up with water

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What is a savanna?

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It’s a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions with few trees

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What is an acacia tree?

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Has small leaves to reduce loss of water
Has spiked thorns to prevent predators from eating it
Thick bark to make it fire resistant
Long tap roots to reach underground water

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What is an baobab tree?

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It has small leaves to reduce water loss
Can store water in its trunk
Thick bark to prevent from burning
Long roots too reach underground water

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What is relief

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Describes the shape of the landscape we can use words such as lowland, gentle, flat, steep, highland, valley etc.

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What does sedentary mean

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To stay in the same place

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What does subsistence mean

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To provide enough food for themselves and their families

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What is a shamba

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Farm or garden around a house surrounding it

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What does plantation mean

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A large estate of land used for one crop to grow and is then sold away to other countries

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What is commercial farming

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Farming for profit

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Withering

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Leaves are dried for 16 hours to lose 70% of their water content

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Rolling and shredding

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Rollers crush the leaves before shredding

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Fermentation

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Leaves exposed to the air (oxygen) leaves turn dark brown

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Firing

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Leaves put into a stove heated by eucalyptus wood at a temperature of 88 degrees water content reduced to 2%

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Serving and grading

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Leaves sieved into various sizes then tasted and graded

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Bagged 90% goes for export

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Bagged for export

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Where do the kikuyu people live

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In the foothills of mount Kenya

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What are the problems with sustainable energy

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Release Co2
Wood is non-renewable energy source
It’s labour intensive to collect wood
Time consuming

25
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What are the benefits of biogas

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Improves lives of poor people

26
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What does Kenya offer for tourists

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Safari trips
Nice hot climate
Different cultures
Mountains to go and see
Deep sea fishing
Beautiful white sand beaches
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Climate

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Overall pattern of weather. Average over approx 30 years and usually refers to a country

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Weather

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Weather is the day to day variation in temperature, Precipitation, wind speed, wind direction, cloud cover, humidity and air pressure. It usually refers to a small place like town/ region

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What is a microclimate

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It’s the weather in a small area that is different to the surrounding

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Cumulonimbus

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Low grey shapeless clouds that form in layers

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Cumulus

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Done shaped clouds with dark flat bases

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Stratus

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Huge towering clouds that often give showers

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Cirrus

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High clouds that are whisky light and feather like

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What is an isotherm

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It’s like contour lines but for temperature. A line joins all the places of the same temperature

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What might cause a microclimate

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If there is a dark surface then it will absorb the heat therefore making that area warmer

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What is a dew point temperature

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The temperature where the moisture cools and condenses forming clouds

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Condenses

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Changes from liquid to gas

38
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For rain to fall…

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Air must rise

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Relief rainfall

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What the heat rises over the mountains cooling at its few point forming clouds the air then warms down as it comes from the other side of the mountain

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Conventional rainfall- heat from the sun

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The sun shines on the ground and heat rises up to dew point and forms cumulonimbus clouds the water droplets merge and for rain

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Frontal rainfall caused when warm and cold air meet

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caused when warm and cold air meet

42
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What is the albedo effect

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It’s to to with the type of surface and how that effects the temperature

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What are spot heights

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They show the exact height of the point on the map and are shown as black dots and each one has a number on it

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Different ways of measuring rain

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Rain gauge measures the volume of rain water

Garden rain gauge measures rainfall in mm

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Wind direction

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Wind vane gives direction that the wind is coming from

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Wind strength

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Anemometer measures wind strength in knots

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Temperature

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Thermometer in degrees Celsius

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Humidity

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Whirling psychrometer

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Pressure

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Barometer measures pressure in millibars

50
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What are the shanty towns called in Nairobi

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Kibera

Kariobangi

51
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What does nomadic pastoralist mean

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To move around to find land for animals to graze

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What type of clothes do the Maasai people wear

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Colourful clothing with bright colours and jewellery

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What do the Maasai women have to do

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The have to build the huts for their families to live in out of mud and twigs from the river

54
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What type of food do the Maasai eat

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They drink cows blood because it’s very nutritious with milk in

55
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How many huts would be in a typical Maasai village

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20-50 huts

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Why don’t the houses have any windows

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To prevent too much sunlight from entering the house

57
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What are the improvements that have been made

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There are now water supplies to the villages and they are now able to sell their cattle for money so the children can go to school

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