General

Question 1

What is geography?

Answer 1

Geography is the study of man and his environment

Question 2

What are the categories of geography and what do they deal with?

Answer 2

Physical deals with natural environment and human deals with the study of men and activities they are involved in

Question 3

What is a map?

Answer 3

A map is a small scaled representation of what the land looks like from above. It contains a title, key, scale, N arrow, frame.

Question 4

What are the 4 types of maps?

Answer 4

Physical, political, population and economic

Question 5

What are lines of latitude?

Answer 5

Lines of latitude run from east to west horizontally, forming circles around the earth.

Question 6

What are lines of longitude?

Answer 6

Lines of longitude run from north to south through the poles

Question 7

How are igneous rocks formed?

Answer 7

Igneous rocks are formed when magma cools and solidifies into rock

Question 8

How are sedimentary rocks formed?

Answer 8

Sedimentary rocks are formed by deposition

Question 9

How are metamorphic rocks formed?

Answer 9

Metamorphic rocks are igneous or sedimentary rocks that changed overtime due to pressure and temperature

Question 10

What is the crust?

Answer 10

The outer layer of the earth which we live on

Question 11

What is the mantle?

Answer 11

The middle layer made up of semi-molten, rock or magma.

Question 12

What is the core?

Answer 12

An inner and outer core which consists of super heated liquid rock

Question 13

What are plate tectonics?

Answer 13

The study of plate which make up the earths crust

Question 14

How are plate margins formed?

Answer 14

When plates move

Question 15

What are 3 Types of plate margins?

Answer 15

Convergent, divergent and transformed.

Question 16

What is an earthquake?

Answer 16

It is shocks that occur when the earths plates move.

Question 17

What is the focus?

Answer 17

The point below the surface where the vibrations of earthquakes are generated

Question 18

What is the epicentre?

Answer 18

The location on the earths surface where vibrations are felt the strongest directly above the focus.

Question 19

What are shockwaves?

Answer 19

The vibrations generated from the focus of the earthquake

Question 20

What is the Richter scale

Answer 20

The scale on which earthquakes are rated. It goes from 0-9

Question 21

What is a seismograph?

Answer 21

The instrument that constantly measures the vibrations of the earth

Question 22

What is folding?

Answer 22

Folding is the buckling of layers of the earths crust due to immense pressure

Question 23

What are the 5 main types of folds?

Answer 23

Simple, asymmetrical, over fold, over thrust fold and recumbent

Question 24

What is a syncline and an anticline?

Answer 24

A valley and a hill formed when pressure gets exerted on layers of rocks in the earth.

Question 25

What is the main feature formed by folding?

Answer 25

A fold mountain

Question 26

What is a dyke?

Answer 26

A vertical sheet of magma formed as material forces its way through cracks in the surrounding rocks and hardens

Question 27

What is a sill?

Answer 27

formed when magma intrudes between the rock layers, forming a horizontal or near horizontal sheet of igneous rock.

Question 28

What is a plug?

Answer 28

A vertical pipe formed when molten rock becomes solid in the vent

Question 29

What is the laccolith?

Answer 29

A dome shaped feature formed when igneous rock intrudes along the bedding plain forcing overlying layers upwards forming a mound

Question 30

What is a batholith?

Answer 30

A large and deep feature that is often made of granite and may be the magma chamber of volcanoes

Question 31

What are fold mountain ranges?

Answer 31

The Andes, the alps, the Himalayas and Rockies.

Question 32

What are the 7 continents of the earth?

Answer 32

Africa South America North America Europe Australia Antarctica Asia All summer nobody ever asks Andy anything

Question 33

What are the 5 oceans of the earth?

Answer 33

Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, Antarctic.

Question 34

What are eastings?

Answer 34

Vertical lines going eastward

Question 35

What are northings?

Answer 35

Horizontal lines going northwards

Question 36

How do you read grid references?

Answer 36

The numbers on the bottom, then the numbers on the top.

Question 37

What is frost action?

Answer 37

As the temperature drops below freezing, the water that entered the cracks in the rock freezes and as this process is repeated overtime, the rock will disintegrate.

Question 38

What is temperature change?

Answer 38

As temperature rises and drops, rocks expand and contract making rocks peel off in layers and is called exfoliation weathering.

Question 39

What is carbonation?

Answer 39

the mixing of water with carbon dioxide to make carbonic acid which results in the formation of caves, stalactites and stalagmites.

Question 40

What is oxidation?

Answer 40

the breakdown of rock by oxygen and water, often giving iron-rich rocks a rusty-coloured weathered surface

Question 41

What is hydrolysis?

Answer 41

Minerals react chemically to uncontact with water.

Question 42

How do animals effect weathering?

Answer 42

Animals burrow through the ground breaking up rocks and at death produce acid chemically changing the rock