Year 7 Revision

Question 1

There are five rock types in the Weald. Which one is the youngest?

Answer 1

Chalk

Question 2

What term is used to describe an area that people will travel from in order to visit a particular settlement or service?

Answer 2

Sphere of Influence

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

Erosion

Question 3

What is the name of the river that flows through Tonbridge?

Answer 3

River Medway

Question 4

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.

Answer 4

Escarpments

Question 5

In order to protect against flooding, some of the houses in Tonbridge have been adapted. How?

Answer 5

Car parks are placed on the ground floor with the main residential areas being built from the first floor upwards.

Question 6

What technique could you use during an afternoon of fieldwork to investigate which the busiest part of the HIgh Street is?

Answer 6

A Pedestrian Count

Question 7

What type of settlement function describes a settlement which is mostly set up for tourism and leisure?

Answer 7

Holiday resort

Question 8

What would be an appropriate definition of the word ‘situation’?

Answer 8

The location of a place relative to its surroundings and other places.

Question 9

What is chalk rock mostly composed of?

Answer 9

The fossils and shells of ancient marine animals.

Question 10

A dual carriageway passes Tonbridge. What is it called?

Answer 10

A21

Question 11

Is Sevenoaks at a higher or a lower elevation (height above sea level) than Tonbridge?

Answer 11

Higher

Question 12

What would have to happen to metamorphic rock for it to become magma (which is found in a volcano)?

Answer 12

It would have to melt.

Question 13

Tunbridge Wells is south of Tonbridge.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

Where is the Weald of Kent?

Answer 14

It describes the area between the North and South Downs in Kent and Sussex.

Question 15

During what period of time did the sandstone in the Weald start to form?

Answer 15

Cretaceous

Question 16

Which of these would you suggest is the most sensible way to farm the land on the top of the North Downs?

Answer 16

For Grazing Sheep

Question 17

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)?

Answer 17

Because the land is lower here, so it often floods.

Question 18

After sediments are deposited at the bottom of the sea, they might undergo a process of cementation. What do we mean by this term?

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

What is a settlement hierarchy?

Answer 19

An organisation of settlements according to their size and importance.

Question 20

On the urban hierarchy, what type of settlement is on the level below a conurbation?

Answer 20

City

Question 21

Tonbridge Castle is built on higher land. Identify TWO reasons that this was an advantage when the Castle was originally built.

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

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?

Answer 22

All groups should count for the same amount of time (such as 5 minutes).

Question 23

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…

Answer 23

A south-facing slope

Question 24

Which of these would describe chalk?

Answer 24

Permeable

Question 25

What type of rock is chalk?

Answer 25

Sedimentary

Question 26

Oast houses are often seen in the Weald. What product are they associated with the production of?

Answer 26

Hops

Question 27

What is the land to the west of the Tonbridge Castle used for?

Answer 27

Playing fields and the park.

Question 28

Which of these features within the Weald is composed of sandstone rock?

Answer 28

High Weald

Question 29

And which rock type is the oldest?

Answer 29

Sandstone

Question 30

Which rock type is Tonbridge mostly located on?

Answer 30

Wealden Clay

Question 31

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?

Answer 31

Orogeny

Question 32

What would you call an area of a river which is much less deep, allowing people to cross more easily?

Answer 32

A ford

Question 33

How are sedimentary rocks formed?

Answer 33

Sedimentary rocks are formed when particles are deposited underneath the sea or by rivers, compressing together to form rock.

Question 34

What does the word impermeable mean?

Answer 34

That water cannot easily flow through and the rock does not easily absorb it.

Question 35

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?

Answer 35

Because it allows you to compare their answers easily.

Question 36

When the settlement was originally built, why were the houses spread so far apart?

Answer 36

Because the houses were surrounded by farmland so each building was far apart with fields in between.