Population
Settlements
Plate Tectonics
Rivers
Miscellaneous
100
Life expectancy
What is the average number of years a person born in a particular country might be expected to live?
100
The increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities
What is urbanisation?
100
A boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other.
What is a conservative margin (boundary)?
100
Where a river begins
What is the source of a river?
100
Meander
What is a large bend in a river?
200
The proportion of males and females within selected age groups. Shown graphically
What is a population pyramid?
200
Type of settlement which occurs where buildings are strung out along a line of communication such as a main road or river.
What is a linear settlement?
200
Earthquake
What is a sudden movement in the earth's crust, usually close to a plate boundary.
200
A river landform which can occur in a floodplain after a river cuts through the neck of a former meander.
What is an ox-bow lake?
200
Slum
What is an area of poor-quality housing, lacking in amenities such as water supply, sewerage and electricity? Often develops informally.
300
Birth rate
What is the number of live births per 1,000 people per year?
300
Sphere of influence
What is the area served by a particular settlement?
300
Fertile soil, tourism, geothermal energy
What are some benefits that volcanoes provide to humans?
300
Corrasion (abrasion)
What happens when smaller material, carried in suspension, rubs against the banks of the river?
300
An active volcano in Indonesia
What is Mount Merapi
400
Push factors
What are things that cause people to want to leave an area?
400
Urban land use model using concentric circles with the CBD is at the centre and high class residences in the outer ring.
What is the Burgess model?
400
Convection currents
What are circular currents in the Earth's mantle that cause plates to move?
400
The period of time between peak rainfall and peak discharge.
What is lag time?
400
The arrangement of settlements within a given area by order of size and importance.
What is an urban hierarchy?
500
The DTM stage in which the death rate is falling rapidly but the birth rate remains high.
What is Stage 2: Early expanding?
500
A country which has an increasing number of old dependents and not enough economically active citizens.
What is Japan? (or Russia, France, Italy etc.)
500
A rapid downhill movement of mud, water and volcanic ash, often the result of a volcanic eruption.
What is a lahar?
500
Drainage Density
What is the total length of all the streams in the drainage basin divided by the total area of the drainage basin?
500
Four processes by which a river transports sediment
What are traction, saltation, suspension and solution?
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