geography revision

Question 1

What countries is the UK made out of?

Answer 1

England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales.

Question 2

What are the 3 types of geography

Answer 2

Human, Physical and Environmental.

Question 3

what is sustainability?

Answer 3

doing something that will cause little or no damage to the environment

will be able to continue for a long period of time.

Sustainability is meeting the needs of today without affecting the needs of people in the future.

Question 4

what is a Migrant

Answer 4

what someone has moved to a different country out of choice from where they previously lived.

Question 5

what is geography?

Answer 5

It is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments.

Question 6

what river is in London?

Answer 6

River Thames.

Question 7

what is the capital of Northern Ireland?

Answer 7

Belfast.

Question 8

what is the capital of Scotland?

Answer 8

Edinburgh.

Question 9

what is the capital of England?

Answer 9

London.

Question 10

What is the capital of the Republic of Ireland?

Answer 10

Dublin.

Question 11

How can something be truly sustainable?

Answer 11

For something to be truly sustainable it must balance economic, social and environmental.

Question 12

What is physical geography?

Answer 12

relates to the natural world around us,
how our landscape is created and changes over time

how rivers and glaciers change the environment,
what areas experience weather and climate,
different ecosystems and biomes of earth,
hazards like volcanoes, earthquakes and tropical storms

Question 13

What is human geography?

Answer 13

The study of where and how people live on earth.

Question 14

What is environmental geography?

Answer 14

The study of interactions between humans and the physical world is know as enviromental geography.

Question 15

What are the main oceans in the world?

Answer 15

Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, Artic, Southern.

Question 16

What is the largest ocean in the world?

Answer 16

Pacific.

Question 17

What is the smallest ocean in the world?

Answer 17

Artic.

Question 18

Name the UK mountains?

Answer 18

Northwest highlands, Grampain Mountains, Cairngarm Mts, Southern Uplands, Penninds, Snowdonia, Cumbrian Mts, Slieve Donard in Northern Ireland

Question 19

What are the main UK rivers?

Answer 19

River Thames, Great Ouse, River Wye, River Severen, Great Ouse, River Trent, River Tyne,

Question 20

What is difference between Britain and the UK?

Answer 20

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England are the United Kington and Great Britain is England, Scotland and Wales

Question 21

What is a lowland area?

Answer 21

a lowland area is an area below sea level and where are no mountains

Question 22

Sea between Ireland and the UK?

Answer 22

Irish Sea

Question 23

What is the eight point compass?

Answer 23

N, S, E, W and then and other points like NE, SW, NW,

Question 24

Why were the first settlements located next to rivers

Answer 24

Source of food (fish), water supply, trasport good and people on boats, Agriculter

Question 25

How are rivers important for fishing

Answer 25

important business for many countries who sell fish, provides 2.6 billion people around the world with 20% of their annual protein intake. also for peoples livelihoods

Question 26

What is Hydropower

Answer 26

Its a renewable energy source used as an alternative to fossil fuels

Question 27

how can we use rivers for transport

Answer 27

Using boats to transport food and other good

Question 28

What are the Gangies in India used for

Answer 28

people use it to wash, a source of food (fish), supply of water, to dispose the ashes of dead bodies and used to grow crops like rice, cotton and sugarcane silt - plant

Question 29

what is a Tributary?

Answer 29

A small river or stream that joins a larger river

Question 30

what is the source?

Answer 30

The begining of a river

Question 31

what is the mouth of the river?

Answer 31

where the river meets the sea?

Question 32

What is confluence?

Answer 32

The point at which two rivers meets to make one larger.

Question 33

What is a watershed?

Answer 33

The high ground that forms the edge of a drainage basin

Question 34

What is a river channel?

Answer 34

where the river flows

Question 35

What is the drainage basin?

Answer 35

an area of land that drains into a river or set of rivers

Question 36

How many courses does a river?

Answer 36

Upper, middle and lower

Question 37

What is the Upper Course River like?

Answer 37

Narrow and slow, large boulders and is shallow

Question 38

What is land like in the upper course?

Answer 38

Steep and rural

Question 39

What is the middle course river like?

Answer 39

Wide and fast, small pebbles and is deep

Question 40

What is land like in the middle ourse?

Answer 40

Flat and rural

Question 41

What is the lower course river?

Answer 41

Wide and slow, small pebbles and is deep

Question 42

What is land in the lower course river like?

Answer 42

Flat and urban