Social science Flashcards

(38 cards)

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What does the term relief mean?

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Height and shape of the land

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Define an ecosystem?

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A geographical area containing living and no living things that interact with eachother.

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Why were humans able to migrate out of Africa?

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Ate a wide range of food

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4
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What is location?

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Where something is found

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What is a pattern?

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Arrangement of features on the earths

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What is a process

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Sequence of actions that change the environment

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What is an interaction?

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The elements of the environment that affect eachother

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What is sustainability?

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Limit the use of resources today to ensure there will be resources in the future

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What is change

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Alteration to the natural or cultural environment.

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What is environment?

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Natural and cultural locations that have particular characteristics and features

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What is perspective?

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Way of seeing the world that helps explain the differences

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What are the Americas?

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North America
Central America
South America
Latin America

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What are the West Indies?

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The islands of the Caribbean Sea

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What is Oceania?

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Australia, New Zealand and the southern pacific option dotted with small island nations.

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What is The Arctic?

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The northern polar regions.

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What is Antartica

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The southern polar regions.

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What is an ocean?

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A very large body of salt water

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What is a sea?

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A smaller body of water (usually salt water) with land on most sides.

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What is a lake?

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An area of water enclosed by land (usually fresh water but occasionally salt water).

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What is a continent?

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A very large area of land.

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What is an island?

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A smaller area of land surrounded by water.

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What is a tectonic plate?

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Slab of the earths crust

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What is a plate boundary?

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Where 2 tectonic plates meet.

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What is plains?

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Flat area of land located close to coastal areas.

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What is easy hill country?
Areas of gently sloping hills and valleys.
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What is rough hill country?
Areas of steep hills less than 1000 m in elevation with deeply cut valleys.
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What are mountains?
Areas of steep land over 1000 m in elevation. Often occur in connected groups of chains known as ranges.
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What is a plateau?
Areas of relatively flat ground found at an elevation above sea level.
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What are the three stages of erosion
EROSION TRANSPORTATION DEPOSITION
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What is weather?
What it is like on a particular time or day.
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what is climate?
The weather conditions of a particular place averaged out over a long period of time
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What are the three key elements climate is made of?
TEMPERATURE PRECIPATION WIND
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What is latitude?
The location of a place in relation to the equator
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What is a biome?
A large geographical area that contains a distinct plant and animal groups that have adapted to live in that environment.
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What is a rainforest?
Forest that grows in an area of very high rainfall. Tropical rainforests grow in tropical areas.
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What is vegetation?
Plant life of a region
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What is the formula for population density
Population —————- Area
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What is sparsely poulated?
An area with few people