Continents and Countries
Contains Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Sudan
What is Africa?
Slightly acidic rain reacting with rock
What is Chemical Weathering?
When did Uluru start being formed
What is 500 million years ago?
Continents badly affected by deforestation
What is South America, Africa, Asia?
Largest country in South America
What is Brazil?
Soil on a sloping face moving downwards due to gravity. Marked by piles of debris
Uluru is this type of rocky geographical feature.
What is a Monolith?
Bellbird Park SSC total area (in hectares)
What is 12 hectares?
Australia's continent
What is Oceania?
Roots of plants growing into cracks, causing splits
Biological Weathering
Geomorphic processes affecting Uluru
What is Erosion - water on rock 'solution weathering', Chemical Weathering, Biological Weathering, Freeze thaw weathering/thermal expansion.
Ways in which deforestation occurs
What is small scale clearing, industrial clearing with tractors etc?
Continent in which Russia is situated
What is Asia?
Water enters cracks then expands at very low temperatures, cracking rock.
What is freeze thaw weathering?
How Uluru was formed
What is eroded material being compressed, tilted and then exposed on the surface as a rocky outcrop that was then eroded?
Effects of deforestation
What is increased carbon dioxide levels, destruction of habitats?
3 South-East Asian Countries
What is Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Philipines, Singapore?
The dissolving of rocks and minerals due to the water acting like a weak acid
What is Solution Erosion?
Impact of Human Activities on Uluru and surrounds
What is tourist footprints eroding surface, rubbish polluting waterholes and rivers, buildings destroying native wildlife, wildfires burn and scar the rock, invasive species of plants and animals?
Causes of Deforestation (at least 3)
What is Slash and Burn Agriculture, Cattle Ranching, industrialisation and increased population, residential development, commercial production (paper, furniture etc), consumer items (palm oil etc).