Mapping Skills
What does BOLTSS stand for?
Border, Orientation, Legend, Title, Scale and Source
What are landscapes?
Areas of the land that include landforms
What are landforms?
Visible features of the land shaped by physical changes over millions of years
What is coastal erosion?
Wearing away the coast by wind and water
Which is the tallest mountain in the world?
Mount Everest
Where is the equator?
What type of landscape is hot and has no rainfall?
What are the characteristics of a mountain?
High peaks and steep sides and rise above the landscape
What is coastal deposition?
Sediments being depositied to a new location that have been eroded away
What heats water in a hot spring?
Magma
What type of grid reference is this? '4357'
Four figure grid reference
What does a tundra landscape have that no other landscape does?
Permafrost
How are landforms formed by the earth?
What are the types of coastal landforms?
Beaches, spits, bars, tombolos and sand dunes
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What type of grid reference is this? '435678'
6 figure grid reference
Which types of landscapes are found in the Margaret River Region?
Karst landscapes
What is the term for the breaking down of rocks by the weather and the rainfall?
Weathering
The movement of sediments along the beach by the swash and backwash of the waves
Which river is not crossed by any bridges?
Amazon River
What graph do we use to measure climate?
A climate graph
Which of the following are landforms?
volcanoes, islands, rainforests and mountains
Volcanoes and mountains
What do the wind and waves struggle to overcome in order to complete coastal deposition?
Gravity
What is the largest island in the world?
Greenland