Year 8 EOY Test Revision

Question 1

What is consistent in terms of global population as time continues.

Answer 1

The population and it’s growth speed increases.

Question 2

Population

Answer 2

Number of people in a particular place

Question 3

Population Density

Answer 3

The number of people per km^2

Question 4

Population Distribution

Answer 4

How a population is spread out over an area

Question 5

Factors of life that could cause migration

Answer 5

Illness, Location, Hygiene, Poverty, Injuries, Neighbours/Roomates, Genes/DNA, Healthiness and Temperature and Weather

Question 6

Birth Rate

Answer 6

Number of babies born per 1000 people

Question 7

Death Rate

Answer 7

Number of deaths per 1000 people

Question 8

Low Birth rate/ High death rate (High Birth rate and Low Death rate is opposite)

Answer 8

Lower population, Small/Bad hospitals, Old population, Religion/ Beliefs and Poverty

Question 9

Dense

Answer 9

Crowded closely together

Question 10

Sparse

Answer 10

widely-spaced

Question 11

Cluster

Answer 11

Grouped together

Question 12

Ageing Population

Answer 12

growth in proportion of older people (usually 65 and older) in the population

Question 13

Population structure

Answer 13

How many males and females of different ages are in a population

Question 14

Migration

Answer 14

The movement from 1 place to another

Question 15

Immigrants

Answer 15

someone moving to another country

Question 16

Emmigrants

Answer 16

someone leaving a country into another

Question 17

International Migration

Answer 17

Migration across borders

Question 18

Net migration

Answer 18

Immigrants minus Emmigrants

Question 19

Economic Migrants

Answer 19

People that move countries to advance their economic and professional prospect

Question 20

Asylum seekers

Answer 20

A person that’s left their home country as a political refugee and is seeking asylum in another country

Question 21

Refugees

Answer 21

A person who has been forced to leave their country because of war persecution etc. Refugees already receive permission from the authorities on their asylum claim.

Question 22

Illegal Immigrants

Answer 22

People who arrive in a country without permission.

Question 23

Reasons people migrate to the UK

Answer 23

Bad former country, Free healthcare, Democratic, Good education, Family, Less strict migration laws and job opportunities.

Question 24

Persecution

Answer 24

treating people badly because of their beliefs or race

Question 25

Descendants

Answer 25

Relatives born after someone, such as a child.

Question 26

Diverse

Answer 26

Having lots of variety

Question 27

Chloropleth map

Answer 27

a map that uses shades to identify populations (in one colour) where dark shades mean dense population and light for sparse

Question 28

Urbanisation

Answer 28

When an inversing percentage of a country's population moves to towns and cities.

Question 29

Rural

Answer 29

In the countryside

Question 30

Village

Answer 30

A community with a variety of houses, some shops and other services

Question 31

Commute

Answer 31

To travel to and from another place for work

Question 32

Commuter village

Answer 32

A village, often with housing estates, close to a town or city. People live there but commute to work elsewhere.

Question 33

Hamlet

Answer 33

An isolated cluster of houses and farms, usually with no shops or services

Question 34

Counter-Urbanisation

Answer 34

Movement from an urban area to rural.

Question 35

Weather

Answer 35

Day to day changes in the atmosphere, measured with temperature, precipitation, wind speed and direction, cloud cover and air pressure

Question 36

Climate

Answer 36

Long-term weather pattern of an area (usually measured over 30 years) measured with temperature, precipitation and wind speed and direction

Question 37

Temperature

Answer 37

Thermometer

Question 38

Precipitation

Answer 38

mm and Rain Gauge

Question 39

Humidity

Answer 39

The amount of water vapour in the air, % and Hygrometer

Question 40

Wind Speed

Answer 40

kph and Anemometer

Question 41

Wind Direction

Answer 41

Wind Vane

Question 42

Air pressure

Answer 42

How heavy the air is around us, millibars and Barometer

Question 43

Cloud type

Answer 43

Can tell us smothing about weather higher in the atmosphere.

Question 44

Cloud cover

Answer 44

How much of the sky is covered with clouds, oktas and okta index cards

Question 45

Weather types

Answer 45

Sunny, Cloudy, Rain, Hail, Thunder, Windy and Hurricane

Question 46

1st layer

Answer 46

Troposphere (weather)

Question 47

2nd layer

Answer 47

Stratosphere (planes and ozone layer)

Question 48

3rd layer

Answer 48

Mesosphere (burning meteors)

Question 49

4th layer

Answer 49

Thermosphere (auroras and space shuttles)

Question 50

5th layer

Answer 50

Exosphere (merges with space, thin layer)

Question 51

Tropical continental

Answer 51

North Africa

Question 52

Polar Continental

Answer 52

Central Europe

Question 53

Polar Maritime

Answer 53

Greenland/ Arctic sea

Question 54

Tropical Maritime

Answer 54

Atlantic

Question 55

Arctic Maritime

Answer 55

Arctic

Question 56

Water cycle

Answer 56

the cycle of water between ocean atmosphere and land

Question 57

Surface runoff

Answer 57

Water flowing overground e.g. rivers

Question 58

Groundwater

Answer 58

Water held underground in soil or rock

Question 59

Transpiration

Answer 59

water released from plant leaves into the atmosphere