Coast
Name two types of waves.
Constructive and Destructive waves
Direction of movement at constructive boundaries.
Moving apart or in opposite directions.
Name three types of weathering.
Physical, Chemical and Biological
Name 3 stages of a river.
Upper, middle and lower course
Name 3 types of primary economic activity.
Fishing, Agriculture, Mining, Quarrying
Types of coastal erosion that dissolves rocks.
Solution
Two types of lava
Balsatic and viscous
Type of volcano created by basic lava.
Shield Volcano
Define the term vertical erosion.
Downwards erosion that makes the river bed deeper.
Identify ONE benefit of tourism to the economy.
Foreign exchange, government revenue, employment, linkage to other businesses
Name three types of mangroves.
Landform created at boundaries where plates slide past each other.
Faults
The peeling away of layers of a rock because of variation in the temperature of the rock.
Exfoliation
Explain how a river moves sediment by saltation.
The river water has enough energy to bounce the sediment along the river bed as it moves along in the water.
Name 3 types of fishing methods used in the fishing industry in the Caribbean.
Gill nets, hook, drag net, fish pot
Type of coral reef that is a ring-shaped island, that surrounds a body of water called a lagoon.
Atoll
Define the term subduction.
The sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
Type of mass wasting where sediment moves slowly downhill under the influence of gravity.
Soil Creep
Name 3 river landforms found in the lower course of a river.
Levee, flood plain, meander, oxbow lake, delta, river island
KM2 Solutions a Call Centre in Bridgetown is an example of which type of industry?
Quaternary
When Coral expels colorful algae because of increased temperatures or stress is called
Coral Bleaching
Hot fragmented rock and gases moving down the side of a volcano and very high speeds. What am I?
Pyroclastic flow
Describe how frost action weathers rocks.
Freeze-thaw processes where meltwater percolates into cracks and freezes causing fissures to expand under pressure of ice and, with repeated cycles, shatter the surrounding rock.
Explain why the middle course is wider than the upper course of the river.
Lateral erosion erodes the banks of the river therefore widening the river valley compared to vertical erosion that is active mainly in the upper course.
Partial processing of bauxite into a white powder is called
Alumina