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Flashcards by Vanessa Brooks, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Vanessa Brooks
over 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Geography | Mapping |
| What is human geography? | Where and how people live |
| What is physical geography? | Natural features and events such as landforms and whether |
| What is environmental geography? | The relationship between the physical and human environment |
| What is a continent? | One of 7 large land masses |
| What is a ocean? | A large mass of water |
| What is the equator? | an imaginary line that is in the middle between north and south poles |
| What is longitude lines? | How far east or west a place is from the equator |
| What is Latitude lines? | How far north or south a place is from the equator |
| What is the Greenwich Meridian/ Prime Meridian? | 0 degrees longitude |
| What is the hemisphere? | A half of the earth |
| What are the coordinates of the Artic Circle? | 66,34 N of the equator |
| What are the coordinates of the Tropic of Cancer? | 23,26 N |
| What are the coordinates of the Equator? | 0 degrees |
| What are the coordinates of the Tropic of Capricorn? | 23,26 S |
| What are the coordinates of the Antarctic Circle? | 66,34 S |
| Name the seven continents of the earth | Asia Europe Africa Antartica North America South America Oceania/Australasia |
| What is the continent with the largest land area? | Asia |
| What is the second largest continent? | Africa |
| What is the smallest continent? | Australasia/Oceania |
| Where is the coldest recorded temperature? | Antartica |
| Where is the hottest recorded temperature? | Africa |
| Where is the highest point on earth? | Mount Everest (Asia) |
| Where is the lowest point on earth? | Antartica |
| Which continent has the most counties? | Africa 53 countries |
| Which continent has no countries? | Antartica |
| Name the four hemispheres? | Northern Hemisphere Southern Hemisphere Western Hemisphere Eastern Hemisphere |
| What are the 5 most important parts of a map? | Scale Key Title Frame Compass |
| Draw map symbols on white board | |
| What is a scale? | The link between the distance on a map and its real distance on the ground |
| What is a compass rose? | A compass with all the 4 points and the half way marks |
| What is northing? | Northing is the Y coordinate the north-ward measured distance |
| What is easting? | Easting is the x coordinate the east -ward measured distance |
| What is a settlement? | A place where people live (and work) |
| What is a settlement pattern? | The shape of the buildings |
| What is a linear settlement? | When a village is assembled in a line next to a road, canal, railway |
| What is a nucleated settlement? | When village lives close together |
| How do you show hight on a map | Spot Height Gradient Contour Lines |
| Where is the location of cayman? | south of cuba, west in the caribbean, north of the equator |
| what is the physical geography of cayman? | hurricanes, and tropical storms come occasionally and destroy the land |
| what is the human geography of cayman? | people live in houses/ apartments and live in built neiborhoods or alone the beach |
| is the physical and human geography changing all the time? | yes |
| Describe and explain (causes of) changes on cayman, including land use | people are destroying our beautiful beaches to build houses and hotels, people are also cutting down trees and habitats to build neiborhoods. |
| name two countries in the Greater Antilles | cuba and cayman islands |
| name two countries in the Leaward Antilles | barbados and trinadad and tobago |
| name two countries in the windward islands | UK virgin islands and Anguilla |
| name two islands in the lesser Antilles | st. martin and st. kitts |
| what is a positive impact of tourism in cayman? | more money |
| what is a negative impact of tourism in cayman? | cruise ships destroying reefs |
| suggest how tourism in cayman can be more sustainable | you could only let a certain amount of people enter cayman at a time |
| what are the different levels of development in the caribbean? | electricity clean water food medical care transport housing |
| suggest possible reasons for different levels of development | loss of money bad facilities loss of education |
| what does 'sustainable tourism' mean? | is to ensure that development is a positive experience for local people |
| what is meant by fair-trade? | to make sure that farmers get paid properly and work in safe non-toxic working environment |
| describe why fair-trade is important to the caribbean as a means to improve the quality of life | because the do something called fair-trade premium, this build things such as schools and medical care for the community which means that kids can get a education ect. |
| describe the location of coral reefs around the world | in the tropicals near the equator. |
| label a coral polyp |
Image:
Hardpolyps (image/jpeg)
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| describe and explain the conditions that corals need to grow | 5 reasons... |
| corals need to grow in shallow water, | this is because the sun rays are stronger in shallow water |
| corals need to grow in clear water | this is because sediment in cloudy water can settle on the polyp and block sunlight |
| clean water free from pollutants | this is because corals can be harmed or broken off by pieces of rock |
| saltwater | this is because corals need saltwater to survive and require certain balance of salt to water |
| much sunlight | this is because the zooxanthellae need to photosynthesise to give the corals nutrience |
| name 3 types of coral reefs | ... |
| fringing reef | they have.. a shallow lagoon a island |
| barrier reef | they have ... wide deep lagoon island |
| atoll | they have... steep outer shape shallow flat floored lagoon a former island at the bottom |
| what do coral reefs provide? | habitats for fish |
| they can also provide | medicines to treat illnesses and cancer |
| they also provide | they create a huge habitat for fish, turtles and crabs to keep them safe from predators and also make an impact on fishing companies |
| describe the threats facing coral reefs | ... |
| global warming | global warming makes the water too hot and the zooxanthellae stress and leave |
| global warming 2 | global warming also makes the sea level rise which also means that corals can't get enough sunlight |
| boats | boats can wreck coral reefs by hitting them with their anchor |
| pollution | pollution blocks the sunlight from the polyps |
| how can coral reefs be managed sustainably? | we could have rules against litter in the ect. |
| define a hasard for extreme flooding | heavy rain fall |
| name a human hazard | loss of trees |
| name another human hazard | impermeable rock |
| describe a drainage basin of a river, using key words | a area which is drained by a river and its tributaries |
| describe how rainfall reaches a river | it flows down onto steep slopes and into a drainage basin and flows into tributaries and/ or a river |
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