Year 7 Revision Flashcards
There are five rock types in the Weald. Which one is the youngest?
Chalk
What term is used to describe an area that people will travel from in order to visit a particular settlement or service?
Sphere of Influence
Which term is used to describe the way in which rocks and soil are worn away as a result of rivers and sea? After being worn away, the particles and rocks are then carried somewhere else.
Erosion
What is the name of the river that flows through Tonbridge?
River Medway
What name do we give a ridge of land (usually made from chalk with clay underneath) which has one steeper side and one more gentle side? The North and South Downs are examples.
Escarpments
In order to protect against flooding, some of the houses in Tonbridge have been adapted. How?
Car parks are placed on the ground floor with the main residential areas being built from the first floor upwards.
What technique could you use during an afternoon of fieldwork to investigate which the busiest part of the HIgh Street is?
A Pedestrian Count
What type of settlement function describes a settlement which is mostly set up for tourism and leisure?
Holiday resort
What would be an appropriate definition of the word ‘situation’?
The location of a place relative to its surroundings and other places.
What is chalk rock mostly composed of?
The fossils and shells of ancient marine animals.
A dual carriageway passes Tonbridge. What is it called?
A21
Is Sevenoaks at a higher or a lower elevation (height above sea level) than Tonbridge?
Higher
What would have to happen to metamorphic rock for it to become magma (which is found in a volcano)?
It would have to melt.
Tunbridge Wells is south of Tonbridge.
True
Where is the Weald of Kent?
It describes the area between the North and South Downs in Kent and Sussex.
During what period of time did the sandstone in the Weald start to form?
Cretaceous
Which of these would you suggest is the most sensible way to farm the land on the top of the North Downs?
For Grazing Sheep
Tonbridge is often compared with an hourglass shape where the land is much more built up to the North and to the South. Why is the central area of Tonbridge less built up (creating the narrow part of the hourglass in the middle)?
Because the land is lower here, so it often floods.
After sediments are deposited at the bottom of the sea, they might undergo a process of cementation. What do we mean by this term?
This term describes the way in which particles that have already been pressed together then become harder and join together, almost like they are glued together.
What is a settlement hierarchy?
An organisation of settlements according to their size and importance.
On the urban hierarchy, what type of settlement is on the level below a conurbation?
City
Tonbridge Castle is built on higher land. Identify TWO reasons that this was an advantage when the Castle was originally built.
The river has always flooded frequently, therefore Tonbridge Castle is less likely to flood as it is out of the floodplain.
Being higher up allows the site to be better defended in the event of attack.
A class of Year 7 students are counting the amount of traffic travelling up and down Tonbridge High Street. The class is split into 12 groups that are spaced along the High Street. What step should they take to make sure that the data from each group is able to be compared?
All groups should count for the same amount of time (such as 5 minutes).
Aspect describes the amount of sunlight somewhere will receive based on which direction it faces (whether it is facing the sun or facing away from the sun). In the Northern Hemisphere, a settlement with the better (sunnier) aspect would be placed on…
A south-facing slope
Which of these would describe chalk?
Permeable
What type of rock is chalk?
Sedimentary
Oast houses are often seen in the Weald. What product are they associated with the production of?
Hops
What is the land to the west of the Tonbridge Castle used for?
Playing fields and the park.
Which of these features within the Weald is composed of sandstone rock?
High Weald
And which rock type is the oldest?
Sandstone
Which rock type is Tonbridge mostly located on?
Wealden Clay
After rocks had been formed in layers underneath what would become the Weald, a process then occurred which caused the rocks to form into a large dome shape (called the anticline). What process caused this to happen?
Orogeny
What would you call an area of a river which is much less deep, allowing people to cross more easily?
A ford
How are sedimentary rocks formed?
Sedimentary rocks are formed when particles are deposited underneath the sea or by rivers, compressing together to form rock.
What does the word impermeable mean?
That water cannot easily flow through and the rock does not easily absorb it.
If you are completing a questionnaire as part of a fieldwork activity, why is it important that you ask each person the same set of questions?
Because it allows you to compare their answers easily.
When the settlement was originally built, why were the houses spread so far apart?
Because the houses were surrounded by farmland so each building was far apart with fields in between.
