Physical Landscapes

Question 1

Landscape

Answer 1

The visible features of an area of land

Question 2

Uplands

Answer 2

Land that is hilly or mountainous

Question 3

Foreground

Answer 3

The front part of a view

Question 4

Land use

Answer 4

What the land is used for.
Eg farming or industry

Question 5

Physical layer

Answer 5

Rock type and how landscape processes have sculpted the landscape

Question 6

Biological layer

Answer 6

Soil plants trees etc.

Question 7

Human layer

Answer 7

Settlements communications farming etc.

Question 8

Geology

Answer 8

The study of rocks beneath our feet

Question 9

Rock cycle

Answer 9

Describes how rocks are constantly being changed from one type to another

Question 10

Limestone pavement

Answer 10

Limestone surface separated by deep cracks

Question 11

Gryke

Answer 11

A deep crack in the surface of something

Question 12

Clints

Answer 12

Limestone blocks separated by deep cracks

Question 13

Weathering

Answer 13

The process that takes place as rocks and other parts of the geosphere are broken down into smaller pieces.

Question 14

Erosion

Answer 14

The movement of weathered rocks by natural forces

Question 15

Mechanical weathering

Answer 15

The process of breaking big rocks into little ones

Question 16

Chemical weathering

Answer 16

Changes of shape or colour caused by various substances

Question 17

Lowlands

Answer 17

Flat land not much higher than sea level

Question 18

Igneous

Answer 18

A type of rock formed on the Earth’s surface or deep underground by the cooling of molten rock

Question 19

Sedimentary

Answer 19

A type of rich formed by the deposition of sediment

Question 20

Metamorphic

Answer 20

A type of rock that has undergone change due to intense heat and/or pressure

Question 21

hydraulic action

Answer 21

the power of the water breaking rocks apart

Question 22

abrasion

Answer 22

rocks and pebbles grind across the sand in a sandpaper fashion

Question 23

attrition

Answer 23

rocks bump against each other and break apart or become more rounded

Question 24

solution

Answer 24

water dissolving rocks

Question 25

freeze-thaw weathering

Answer 25

where water continually freezes in the cracks of rock, making them bigger, and eventually breaks the rock apart.

Question 26

corrie

Answer 26

a round hollow made in the side of a mountain by a glacier

Question 27

glacial erosion

Answer 27

glaciers moving down slopes erode and break apart the rocks and land on the slope

Question 28

scree

Answer 28

small loose stones created by freeze thaw weathering

Question 29

glacier

Answer 29

a river of ice, usually occupying a valley

Question 30

ice sheet

Answer 30

a large layer of ice several kilometres thick