Revision For End Of Years Flashcards
What is layer colouring
Can also be called layer shading areas of different heights are shown by bands of different colours there always needs to be a key
What are contour lines
Lines on a map joining points of equal heights above or below sea level the closer together the lines are the steeper it is
What countries surround Kenya?
Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somali Republic, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique
How tall is mount Kenya?
5199
What are the two largest lakes in Kenya called?
Lake Victoria and lake Turkana
What ocean is on the coast of Kenya?
The Indian Ocean
What caused the Rift Valley in Kenya?
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
What is a savanna?
It’s a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions with few trees
What is an acacia tree?
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
What is an baobab tree?
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
What is relief
Describes the shape of the landscape we can use words such as lowland, gentle, flat, steep, highland, valley etc.
What does sedentary mean
To stay in the same place
What does subsistence mean
To provide enough food for themselves and their families
What is a shamba
Farm or garden around a house surrounding it
What does plantation mean
A large estate of land used for one crop to grow and is then sold away to other countries
What is commercial farming
Farming for profit
Withering
Leaves are dried for 16 hours to lose 70% of their water content
Rolling and shredding
Rollers crush the leaves before shredding
Fermentation
Leaves exposed to the air (oxygen) leaves turn dark brown
Firing
Leaves put into a stove heated by eucalyptus wood at a temperature of 88 degrees water content reduced to 2%
Serving and grading
Leaves sieved into various sizes then tasted and graded
Bagged 90% goes for export
Bagged for export
Where do the kikuyu people live
In the foothills of mount Kenya
What are the problems with sustainable energy
Release Co2
Wood is non-renewable energy source
It’s labour intensive to collect wood
Time consuming
What are the benefits of biogas
Improves lives of poor people
What does Kenya offer for tourists
Safari trips Nice hot climate Different cultures Mountains to go and see Deep sea fishing Beautiful white sand beaches
Climate
Overall pattern of weather. Average over approx 30 years and usually refers to a country
Weather
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
What is a microclimate
It’s the weather in a small area that is different to the surrounding
Cumulonimbus
Low grey shapeless clouds that form in layers
Cumulus
Done shaped clouds with dark flat bases
Stratus
Huge towering clouds that often give showers
Cirrus
High clouds that are whisky light and feather like
What is an isotherm
It’s like contour lines but for temperature. A line joins all the places of the same temperature
What might cause a microclimate
If there is a dark surface then it will absorb the heat therefore making that area warmer
What is a dew point temperature
The temperature where the moisture cools and condenses forming clouds
Condenses
Changes from liquid to gas
For rain to fall…
Air must rise
Relief rainfall
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
Conventional rainfall- heat from the sun
The sun shines on the ground and heat rises up to dew point and forms cumulonimbus clouds the water droplets merge and for rain
Frontal rainfall caused when warm and cold air meet
caused when warm and cold air meet
What is the albedo effect
It’s to to with the type of surface and how that effects the temperature
What are spot heights
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
Different ways of measuring rain
Rain gauge measures the volume of rain water
Garden rain gauge measures rainfall in mm
Wind direction
Wind vane gives direction that the wind is coming from
Wind strength
Anemometer measures wind strength in knots
Temperature
Thermometer in degrees Celsius
Humidity
Whirling psychrometer
Pressure
Barometer measures pressure in millibars
What are the shanty towns called in Nairobi
Kibera
Kariobangi
What does nomadic pastoralist mean
To move around to find land for animals to graze
What type of clothes do the Maasai people wear
Colourful clothing with bright colours and jewellery
What do the Maasai women have to do
The have to build the huts for their families to live in out of mud and twigs from the river
What type of food do the Maasai eat
They drink cows blood because it’s very nutritious with milk in
How many huts would be in a typical Maasai village
20-50 huts
Why don’t the houses have any windows
To prevent too much sunlight from entering the house
What are the improvements that have been made
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
