Geography Terms Flashcards
(21 cards)
What is a biome?
A biome is a community categorised by plants,animals and climate
What is terrain?
The horizontal or vertical dimension of the land surface
What is landscape?
Landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land
What is a map?
A map is a piece of paper that shows all the countries on earth
What is grassland?
Grassland is a piece of land that is covered in green grass
What is earth?
Earth is the planet that we live on
What is sustainability?
Sustainability is where you have resources and you have to try and keep them and sustain the resources
What is scale?
Scale is the way that people measure a map
What is the desert?
The desert is a big piece of land that is only sand and dry weather.
What is the ocean?
The ocean is a very large piece of the earth that is covered in water.
What is flora?
Flora is the plants that live in a certain biome
What is fauna?
Fauna is the animals that live in a certain biome
What is soil?
Soil is the dirt which helps nourish and grow the food and plants we grow.
What is topography?
A detailed mapping of a small area
What is interconnection?
Interconnection is the connection between others,to be connected
what is mixed farming
a farm that grows more the one type of crops
What is extensive farming?
Takes up a lot of space for big populations
Plantation farming?
Sugar canes, cocoa, banana and various types of trees
Intensive farming?
Farming that needs a lot of human manual labor
What is climate?
The weather in a certain area and the average of the weather
Atmo
Atmosphere is the outer shell of the layers of the earth
