Sose Term4 2014

Front 1

what is a aeolian land form

Back 1

the processes of wind

Front 2

what is a fluvial land form

Back 2

produced by a river or stream

Front 3

what is a glacial landform

Back 3

dynamic, large moving bodies of Ice that exist for long periods of time.formed by actions from glaciers

Front 4

what is the process of folding

Back 4

forming mountains when the plates bend the bed rock in a similar way to a rug that folds when it is pushed from both sides

Front 5

what is the process of faulting

Back 5

the process of forming mountains when enormous pressure is exerted along the crusts weakest points called fault lines

Front 6

which famous mountain ranges do scientists believe will get higher due to the folding process

Back 6

Mount Everest , Mount Kilmenjaro

Front 7

describe the action occurring in divergent boundaries

Back 7

plates spreading apart

Front 8

describe the action occurring in convergent boundries

Back 8

plates colliding and sliding on top of the other

Front 9

describe the action occurring in transformational boundaries

Back 9

plates sliding past each other

Front 10

give an example of a place in the world where a divergent boundary occurs

Back 10

Arabian plate drifting away from the African plate

Front 11

what are three types of convergent boundaries and where to they occur

Back 11

oceanic, continental and oceanic-continental

Front 12

give an example of a place on the world where a transformational boundary occurs

Back 12

San Andreas fault in california

Front 13

what are the three main types of volcanoes

Back 13

composite

cinder cone

sheild volcano

Front 14

describe a cinder cone volecano

Back 14

formed when dust and rock fragments erupt from a vent and settle around it

Front 15

describe a composite volcano

Back 15

formed when rock, dust and lava fragments erupt from a vent piling up in layers

Front 16

describe a shield volcano

Back 16

formed when lava flows from a vent and spreads out

Front 17

what is the ring of fire

Back 17

the worlds most volcanically active region

Front 18

what is tephra

Back 18

fragments of lava blasted into the air

Front 19

what is a landslide

Back 19

mass movements of rock and soil rolling down the hill

Front 20

what is a avalanche

Back 20

snow and ice falling rapidly down a hill

Front 21

what is an earthquake

Back 21

violent shaking in the ground due to the movement of tectonic plates

Front 22

what is a richter scale

Back 22

a device used for measuring the magnitude of an earthquake

Front 23

what is magnitude

Back 23

the intensity of an earthquake

Front 24

what is weathering

Back 24

the breakdown of rock

Front 25

what is erosion

Back 25

sediments are removed by a geomorphic proscess

Front 26

what is a megacity

Back 26

a city with a population over ten million

Front 27

what is an infrastructure

Back 27

structures provided to improve lives

Front 28

what is low density housing

Back 28

one dwelling ocupies each a block of land

Front 29

what is urbanisation

Back 29

increase of people living in an urban space

Front 30

industrial revolution

Back 30

The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transport, and technology had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions

Front 31

what is population density

Back 31

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume

Front 32

what is sprawl

Back 32

an ungainly or carelessly relaxed position in which one's arms and legs are spread out.

Front 33

what is carbon footprint

Back 33

carbon produced by a person place or thing

Front 34

what are push and pull factors

Back 34

push- pushing you away from where you live (bad income and house)

pull- encouraging you to move to a specific area (good job choice and farming lands)

Front 35

what is biodiversity

Back 35

all living things