Rivers
Fragile Environments
Natural Hazards
Urban Issues
Geo in the news
100
This process occurs on the fast flowing outside of a river bend.
What is erosion?
100
This term defines all non-living components of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
100
At this plate margin, the plates slide past each other.
What is a conservative boundary?
100
This term describes when birth rate is higher than death rate.
What is natural increase?
100
The location of COP26 held last year?
What is Glasgow Scotland
200
This type of transportation carries fine sediment suspended in the water
What is suspension?
200
One human cause of desertification
population growth
overgrazing
overcultivation
deforestation
200
The country which experienced the biggest loss from Typhoon Haiyan.
What is the Philippenes?
200
Name 2 problems of rapid urbanization
Housing (shanty towns in LICs)
Access to infrastructure such as electricity, water, basic service provisions
Traffic congestion
Pollution - air and water, noise, light
Access to health care
Access to schools / education
Jobs / employment - not enough properly paid jobs; informal sector
Crime - poor and desperate people; street gangs
200
What natural hazard in Australia is making a significant contribution to rising CO2 levels?
What is bushfires
400
In the water treatment process what is coagulation?
used to remove solids from water
manipulated electrostatic charges of particles suspended in water,(add chemical with positive charge) making them clump together and then sink.
400
How can nutrients leave the nutrient cycle?
deforestation - no leaf litter and decaying plant matter
wind or water erosion - soil blows or is washed away
400
Name three things that might have caused this flooding hazard.
Storm surge
heavy or persistent rainfall
Tsunami
400
What is next to the CBD in Burgess' model of urban land zones?
Industry and manufacturing
400
The name of the South Pacific island nation that had a volcanic eruption in Jan 2022
Tonga
500
The 3 main processes involved in formation of interlocking spurs.
What are weathering, mass movement, vertical erosion (hydraulic action, abrasion)
500
What are the three aspects of the Milankovitch cycle
eccentricity,
obliquity
precession
500
A cumulonimbus cloud keeps growing in height until it reaches what?
The tropopause
500
Name two strategies Singapore has used to make transportation more sustainable
1. MRT and other convenient modes of public transportation
2. Toll roads to discourage car use
3. Car ownership very expensive
500
A renewed conflict in a European country has resulted in waves of asylum seekers fleeing from which capital city?
What is Kyiv
700
The difference between an estuary and a delta.
Deltas form at the mouths of rivers that transport enough sediment to build outward. The loss of energy results in land being built up by deposited sediment, around which the river splits into distributaries.
In contrast, estuaries are present where the ocean or lake waters flood up into the river valley, creating a tidal mud flat, where salt water at high tide enters up into the river.
700
Explain why a global response to climate change is needed
Because climate change is not just happening in one place -it is a global phenomena; the actions of the biggest polluters have consequences around the world affecting all places but unequally.
700
What type of crust does basaltic lava mainly form and why?
Oceanic - as it is runny lava that generally erupts at constructive plate boundaries, forming shield volcanoes under the sea. It results from direct melting of the mantle.
Oceanic crust is thinner and denser than continental crust, which is made of light-colored rocks called andesite and granite.
700
Describe one international group's involvement in managing challenges in Kibera
The UN - Transportation scheme
World Bank - water pipe funding
MSF - health provision
700
The UK has just signed a deal to send its refugees to which nation? Why might this be controversial?
What is Rwanda?
B/c Rwanda is home to one of the worst genocides in history - not well known for disparate groups living together in peace.