Types Of Landscapes Flashcards
What is a mountain landscape?
Mountains are a large elevation of the earth’s surface, often having steep sides. They rise above the landscapes they are found in and when they reach high enough in the atmosphere snow is formed on their peaks (snow cap). Mountains are the result of processes within the internal of the earth (convergent tectonic plates). They are both a type a landscape and a landform themselves.
What is a Desert landscape?
Deserts are often known as hot and dry places because they receive very little rainfall. Although the temperatures in hot deserts can reach extreme temperatures, not all deserts are hot deserts. Antarctica is a place we associate with cold & ice, however it is the world’s largest desert.
What is a Rainforest?
Rainforests have the greatest biodiversity over any other landscape on Earth. They can be found in hot wet tropics and some cooler temperate areas. They are covered in lush green vegetation, receive very high levels of rainfall per year and support 50% of all known plant and animal species on Earth. The rainforest also provide us with a number of food and medicinal products.
What are Grasslands/Savannah landscapes?
Grasslands, or Savannah, are sometimes seen as a transitional landscape found between forests and deserts. They contain grasses of varying heights and coarseness, and small or widely spaced trees. They are often inhabited by grazing animals.
What is a Polar region/Tundra?
Polar regions and Tundra can be found in polar and alpine regions. Characterised by permafrost, they are too cold for trees to grow. Vegetation such as dwarf shrubs, grasses and lichens have adapted to the extreme cold and short growing seasons. Glaciers often carve spectacular landscape features.
What is an Aquatic landscape?
Aquatic landscapes come in the form of either ‘fresh’ or ‘marine’. ‘Fresh’ aquatic landscapes are made up of fresh water landforms such as lakes, rivers and wetlands. ‘Marine’ aquatic landscapes are the salt water regions such as oceans and reefs.
What are Island landscapes?
Islands are areas of land that are completely surrounded by water. They can be continental islands which are still connected to a continent underneath the sea out of sight. They can also be oceanic islands that have been created from volcanic eruptions underneath the sea as well.
What are Constructed/Built landscapes?
A constructed/built landscape is a landscape that humans have built or altered.
They are important because of the value they hold. These values mainly are Cultural value, Historical value (/sentimental/family) and Environmental value.
What are Biophysical Landscapes?
Biophysical landscapes are the landscapes relating to Living things and their environment /things surrounding them (non living).
Why should we protect these landscapes?
We should protect landscapes to maintain their value (and may be swayed to due to), the resources they can provide for us and to prevent negative effects which may come about to us as a result of changing landscapes.
What are some ways landscapes are protected?
Landscapes may be protected through the usage of man made structures in natural environments, border control, back burning and ranger patrol.
What is a landscape?
A landscape is a part of the Earth’s surface that can be viewed at one time from one place and are made up by structures called landforms. Examples of landscapes include Mountain landscapes, Polar/Tundra landscapes and Desert landscapes.
How has human activity impacted landscapes?
Human activity has impacted the presence of flora and fauna within landscapes, the climate and the shape of the land including landforms. Human activity has impacted landscapes in various ways; they may be beneficial to us and the environment such as agriculture increasing food and fibre production or may be negative such as removing natural flora and fauna in place of man made structures such as cities which induces climate change increasing the speed of weathering, erosion and deposition.
