Geography 8 Flashcards
(14 cards)
What are the brics
Brazil Russia India china South Africa
How much money do each levels get a day
1.2
2.2-8
3.8-32
4.32
What is the biggest slum in the world
Kibera
What does low pressure do to the air
Makes warm air rise
Biome meaning
A biome is a large region with its own individual climate
Misconceptions meaning
A view or opinion that is wrong
How many countries does Africa have
54 countries make up africa
Soft engineering meaning
Where the natural environment is used to help reduce costal erosion and flooding
Hard engineering meaning
It involves building artificial structures to control natural processes
Where are interlocking spurs formed
Upper course of a river
How are interlocking spurs formed
When softer rock are eroded by a river leaving their bands of more resistant rock jutting out
Vertical erosion meaning
Deepening of a river channel
Erosion definition
Erosion is the ways of breaking down rocks to form the land
Clocc meaning
Continent latitude oceans country and compass points
