Social science Flashcards
What does the term relief mean?
Height and shape of the land
Define an ecosystem?
A geographical area containing living and no living things that interact with eachother.
Why were humans able to migrate out of Africa?
Ate a wide range of food
What is location?
Where something is found
What is a pattern?
Arrangement of features on the earths
What is a process
Sequence of actions that change the environment
What is an interaction?
The elements of the environment that affect eachother
What is sustainability?
Limit the use of resources today to ensure there will be resources in the future
What is change
Alteration to the natural or cultural environment.
What is environment?
Natural and cultural locations that have particular characteristics and features
What is perspective?
Way of seeing the world that helps explain the differences
What are the Americas?
North America
Central America
South America
Latin America
What are the West Indies?
The islands of the Caribbean Sea
What is Oceania?
Australia, New Zealand and the southern pacific option dotted with small island nations.
What is The Arctic?
The northern polar regions.
What is Antartica
The southern polar regions.
What is an ocean?
A very large body of salt water
What is a sea?
A smaller body of water (usually salt water) with land on most sides.
What is a lake?
An area of water enclosed by land (usually fresh water but occasionally salt water).
What is a continent?
A very large area of land.
What is an island?
A smaller area of land surrounded by water.
What is a tectonic plate?
Slab of the earths crust
What is a plate boundary?
Where 2 tectonic plates meet.
What is plains?
Flat area of land located close to coastal areas.
What is easy hill country?
Areas of gently sloping hills and valleys.
What is rough hill country?
Areas of steep hills less than 1000 m in elevation with deeply cut valleys.
What are mountains?
Areas of steep land over 1000 m in elevation. Often occur in connected groups of chains known as ranges.
What is a plateau?
Areas of relatively flat ground found at an elevation above sea level.
What are the three stages of erosion
EROSION
TRANSPORTATION
DEPOSITION
What is weather?
What it is like on a particular time or day.
what is climate?
The weather conditions of a particular place averaged out over a long period of time
What are the three key elements climate is made of?
TEMPERATURE
PRECIPATION
WIND
What is latitude?
The location of a place in relation to the equator
What is a biome?
A large geographical area that contains a distinct plant and animal groups that have adapted to live in that environment.
What is a rainforest?
Forest that grows in an area of very high rainfall. Tropical rainforests grow in tropical areas.
What is vegetation?
Plant life of a region
What is the formula for population density
Population
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Area
What is sparsely poulated?
An area with few people
