Geography Revision Test Sem2 2025 Flashcards
(29 cards)
What’s a Natural Resource?
Natural resources are raw materials in the environment which are necessary or useful to people e.g. soil, water, mineral deposits, fossil fuels, plants and animals
What’s a Renewable Resource
These are resources that will replenish themselves naturally overtime e.g. trees, animals, water.
What’s a Non-Renewable Resource
Are resources that are only available in limited amounts e.g. coal, oil and uranium.
What’s Weather?
Weather is the day-to-day conditions of the atmosphere (like sun, rain, wind, or temperature). “It was rainy and 14 degrees in London Today”
What’s Climate?
Climate is the average weather in a place over a long time (usually 30 years or more). “The climate of Egypt is hot and dry”
What are the 7 parts of a Water Cycle?
Precipitation, Infiltration, Surface Run-Off, Evaporation, Transpiration, Condensation, and Ground Water
What’s Precipitation?
Water falls from the sky as rain, hail, or snow.
What’s Infiltration?
When water falls on the ground it can soak.
What’s Surface Run-Off?
The water that does not soak into the ground and flows into creeks, rivers or oceans.
What’s Evaporation?
Water turns into gas called water vapour and rises invisibly into the air.
What’s Transpiration?
Water can be released into the air by plants.
What’s Condensation?
When the invisible water vapour turns back into a liquid in the sky.
What’s Ground Water Storage?
Is the water stored underground after infiltration.
What’s the entire process of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and etc called?
Water Cycle!
How can spiritual factors be have connections to a place?
Some people feel connected to a place because of their beliefs or the way a place makes them feel.
How can economic factors have connections to a place?
Many people feel a connection to particular places as these places provide them with employment or a source of income.
How can cultural factors have connections to a place?
This includes the perceived historic value of a place, and how that is meaningful for people in the present, past and even into the future.
How can Historical Factors have connections to a place?
Evens that happened in the past cna also result in people forming special connections to particular place.
What are the 4 main uses of water?
Industrial (trade)
Commercial (fishing, seaweed farms)
Recreational (surfing, swimming)
Agricultural (crops, canals)
Definition of Interconnected
Interconnected means being linked or related to one another, where a change or action in one part affects others in the network.
Examples of interconnected
-social media networks connection people across the world
-ecosystems where animals, plants, and climate influence eachother
What are ways we are Connected Around the World?
Importation, Transport, News Cycle, Entertainment, Social Influence, Migration, Cultural Influences, Communication Technology, Travel, Trade, Economy, Businesses TNC’s
Define Economic Impacts
The effects that an event, activity, or development has on the wealth, jobs, and economic well-being of a place or population
Define Social Impacts
The effect of an activity, project, event, or change on the well-being, quality of life, and relationships within a community or society
