Social science

Question 1

What does the term relief mean?

Answer 1

Height and shape of the land

Question 2

Define an ecosystem?

Answer 2

A geographical area containing living and no living things that interact with eachother.

Question 3

Why were humans able to migrate out of Africa?

Answer 3

Ate a wide range of food

Question 4

What is location?

Answer 4

Where something is found

Question 5

What is a pattern?

Answer 5

Arrangement of features on the earths

Question 6

What is a process

Answer 6

Sequence of actions that change the environment

Question 7

What is an interaction?

Answer 7

The elements of the environment that affect eachother

Question 8

What is sustainability?

Answer 8

Limit the use of resources today to ensure there will be resources in the future

Question 9

What is change

Answer 9

Alteration to the natural or cultural environment.

Question 10

What is environment?

Answer 10

Natural and cultural locations that have particular characteristics and features

Question 11

What is perspective?

Answer 11

Way of seeing the world that helps explain the differences

Question 12

What are the Americas?

Answer 12

North America
Central America
South America
Latin America

Question 13

What are the West Indies?

Answer 13

The islands of the Caribbean Sea

Question 14

What is Oceania?

Answer 14

Australia, New Zealand and the southern pacific option dotted with small island nations.

Question 15

What is The Arctic?

Answer 15

The northern polar regions.

Question 16

What is Antartica

Answer 16

The southern polar regions.

Question 17

What is an ocean?

Answer 17

A very large body of salt water

Question 18

What is a sea?

Answer 18

A smaller body of water (usually salt water) with land on most sides.

Question 19

What is a lake?

Answer 19

An area of water enclosed by land (usually fresh water but occasionally salt water).

Question 20

What is a continent?

Answer 20

A very large area of land.

Question 21

What is an island?

Answer 21

A smaller area of land surrounded by water.

Question 22

What is a tectonic plate?

Answer 22

Slab of the earths crust

Question 23

What is a plate boundary?

Answer 23

Where 2 tectonic plates meet.

Question 24

What is plains?

Answer 24

Flat area of land located close to coastal areas.

Question 25

What is easy hill country?

Answer 25

Areas of gently sloping hills and valleys.

Question 26

What is rough hill country?

Answer 26

Areas of steep hills less than 1000 m in elevation with deeply cut valleys.

Question 27

What are mountains?

Answer 27

Areas of steep land over 1000 m in elevation. Often occur in connected groups of chains known as ranges.

Question 28

What is a plateau?

Answer 28

Areas of relatively flat ground found at an elevation above sea level.

Question 29

What are the three stages of erosion

Answer 29

EROSION
TRANSPORTATION
DEPOSITION

Question 30

What is weather?

Answer 30

What it is like on a particular time or day.

Question 31

what is climate?

Answer 31

The weather conditions of a particular place averaged out over a long period of time

Question 32

What are the three key elements climate is made of?

Answer 32

TEMPERATURE
PRECIPATION
WIND

Question 33

What is latitude?

Answer 33

The location of a place in relation to the equator

Question 34

What is a biome?

Answer 34

A large geographical area that contains a distinct plant and animal groups that have adapted to live in that environment.

Question 35

What is a rainforest?

Answer 35

Forest that grows in an area of very high rainfall. Tropical rainforests grow in tropical areas.

Question 36

What is vegetation?

Answer 36

Plant life of a region

Question 37

What is the formula for population density

Answer 37

Population
—————-
Area

Question 38

What is sparsely poulated?

Answer 38

An area with few people