Geography Foundations
This type of land cover is used to grow crops such as wheat, rice and corn.
What is cropland?
In the amazon, rainforest has largely been cleared for these activities. Name two.
What is:
agriculture
cattle grazing
palm oil plantations
soy beans
This is the loss of different species of plants and animals from an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity loss?
This imaginary line sits at 0° latitude.
What is the equator?
Australia is wider than this object in space.
What is the moon?
This Earth sphere contains all living organisms, including plants, animals and humans.
What is the biosphere?
These structures have been built along the Gold Coast to reduce erosion and storm damage. Name two.
What are seawalls, groynes, training walls or artificial reefs?
Climate change is typically considered this scale of impact.
What is global?
The world's largest desert.
What is Antarctica?
This city has the largest population of any city in the world.
What is Tokyo?
Glaciers, ice sheets and sea ice belong to this sphere.
What is the cryosphere?
This Australian river basin contains over two-thirds of Australia's irrigated agriculture.
What is the MDB?
Gold Coast coastal modification is primarily an example of change at this scale.
What is local?
This country is home to the city of Dubai.
What is the United Arab Emirates?
This country has more islands than any other country on Earth.
What is Sweden?
The atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere and cryosphere are collectively known as these.
What are Earth's physical spheres (Earth's systems)?
This industry dominates the Pilbara and has transformed large areas of natural land cover.
What is mining (iron ore mining)?
A visual tool used to map the impacts of a change and its flow-on effects. Hint, we did it as our last activity last week.
What is a consequences wheel?
The process where water vapour cools and changes into liquid water.
What is condensation?
The mountain range that spans the western coast of South America.
What are the Andes?
The geographical term for a lasting change in the Earth's surface cover caused by natural or human processes. Hint: It's also the name of our unit.
What is land cover transformation
Which case study best demonstrates how a local land cover transformation can contribute to global climate change?
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
Changes in one sphere often affect others because Earth's systems are this.
What are interconnected?
The only continent crossed by the Equator, Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.
What is Africa?
Every person on Earth could fit inside this Australian state with less population density than many major cities.
What is QLD?