Year 10: Baseline Knowledge Assessment

Question 1

What is the definition of a natural hazard?

Answer 1

A natural event such as an earthquake flood of hurricane, which negatively effects society

Question 2

What is the outer layer of the earth called?

Answer 2

Crust

Question 3

What do we call a piece of the earth’s crust?

Answer 3

A tectonic plate

Question 4

Which type of plate boundary is caused when plate scrape past each other? Can you name an example of such a plate boundary?

Answer 4

Conservative

Question 5

Which scale is currently used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes?

Answer 5

Rictor scale

Question 6

Which piece of equipment is used to record the power of earthquakes and what does it produce?

Answer 6

A seismometer and it creates a seismograph

Question 7

Why do all of the following have in common? Hurricane cyclone typhoon?

Answer 7

They are all the same

Question 8

Describe the main location of tropical storms across the world?

Answer 8

They are on the coasts which are surrounded by big bodies of water

Question 9

What temperature does the sea need to reach for a tropical storm to form?

Answer 9

27c

Question 10

What were the immediate impacts of typhoon haiyan?

Answer 10

6500 people killed
90% of the city was destroyed
600000 people displaced
40000 homes affected
Crops destroyed
Wide spread flooding

Question 11

What is the difference between the greenhouse effect and global warming?​​​​​​

Answer 11

The greenhouse effect is natural and beneficial to life on earth. However global warming is not natural and is caused from excessive burning of fossil fuels.

Question 12

Which four gases are most responsible for global warming?​

Answer 12

Co2
Methane
Nitrous oxide
Fluoridated gases

Question 13

True or false: Britain’s weather is getting more extreme?​​​​

Answer 13

True

Question 14

What were the causes of the extreme weather event known as ‘the Beast from the East’?​​​​​​​

Answer 14

The mix of cold and warm air

Question 15

What is the difference between migration and the adaption in relation to climate change?

Answer 15

Adaption is adjusting to the current and future effect of climate change. migration is preventing or reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases.

Question 16

What is the major affect of climate change?

Answer 16

Sea level rising
More intense droughts

Question 17

Carbon dioxide is the most prevalent greenhouse true or false?

Answer 17

True

Question 18

What is the term where a river begins?

Answer 18

Source

Question 19

What is the term for where two rivers meet?

Answer 19

Confluence

Question 20

What is the term for a small stream that joins the main river?

Answer 20

Tributary

Question 21

Name four processes of erosion that take place in a river?

Answer 21

Hydraulic action
attrition
abrasion
solution (tractionj

Question 22

Name the four processes by which a river can transport material?

Answer 22

Traction
Saltation
suspension
solution

Question 23

What is the thalweg on a river?

Answer 23

A line drawn to join the lowest point along the length of the stream bed or valley in its downward slope defining its deepest channel

Question 24

Does water flow fastest On the inside or outside of the meander?

Answer 24

Outside

Question 25

Describe the formation of a waterfall

Answer 25

Waterfalls are formed when there is a drop in the river bed from one level to another often due to changes in the hardness of rock where hard rock overlies soft rock

Question 26

What is the name given to the point where the land meets the sea?

Answer 26

Coast

Question 27

What is the difference between a destructive and a constructive wave?​​​​​​​​​​

Answer 27

Destructive waves have a week swash and a strong backwash and constructive waves have a strong swash and a weak backwash

Question 28

What is the name of the process by which waves move material along a beach? ​​​​​​​​​​​

Answer 28

Long shore drift

Question 29

What is a discordant coastline?​​

Answer 29

Where it has different alternating bands of rock

Question 30

What are the main landforms created by the sea at a discordant coastline?​​​​​​​​​

Answer 30

Bay and headland

Question 31

What is the difference between hard and soft engineering when defending a coastline from erosion?​​​​​​​​​

Answer 31

Hard Engineering is working against the environment and is more expensive whereas soft engineering is working with the environment is cheaper

Question 32

What is an ecosystem?

Answer 32

A Community of organisms such as plants, animals microbes in a particular area

Question 33

What is the difference between biotic and abiotic factors?​​​​​​​

Answer 33

Biotic factors are things ecosystem, plants animals and bacteria. Abiotic factors are nonliving components such as water soil and the atmosphere.

Question 34

What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?​​​​​​​​​

Answer 34

A food chain is when only certain animals eat certain things where a food web is where multiple animals eat multiple things.

Question 35

What is a primary consumer?

Answer 35

The organisms that eat producers

Question 36

Describe the location of the earths remaining rainforests?

Answer 36

They are situated between the lines of cancer and the lines of Capricorn mostly along the equator.

Question 37

Where does the word ‘tundra’ get its name from?​​​​​​

Answer 37

Finish word tundra meaning treeless plane

Question 38

What is permafrost and what challenges does it cause in cold environments like Alaska?​​​​​​​​​

Answer 38

Permafrost is permanently frozen ground under much of the landscape in the Arctic and Alaska when this melt it causes uneven and ground and surface

Question 39

What is permafrost and what challenges does it cause in cold environments like Alaska?​​​​​​​​​

Answer 39

Permafrost is permanently frozen ground under much of the landscape in the Arctic and Alaska when this melt it causes uneven and ground and surface