Glossary 1
Using the land to produce food crops, non-food crops, industrial products and livestock.
agricultural production
What line divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres?
The equator
The agricultural output per hectare of land eg crop yields, milk yields.
agricultural yield
What is the national flower of Japan?
Cherry blossom
The variety of living organisms and the environments they form.
biodiversity
The relief and configuration of a landscape, including its natural and human features.
topography
A consumer that eats both plants and animals.
Omnivore
Resources provided by nature. Resources can be classified as renewable, non-renewable and continuous. Also known as environmental resources.
natural resources
Name the best-selling book series of the 21st century?
Harry Potter
The tangible and intangible elements of a place or environment.
characteristics
The process of economic and social change in which an increasing proportion of the population of a country or region live in urban areas.
urbanisation
How many continents are there?
7
Fuel produced using plant material eg ethanol, biogas.
biofuel
When was Netflix founded: 1997, 2001, 2009, 2015?
1997
The location and arrangement of particular phenomena or activities across the surface of the Earth.
Spatial distribution
Degradation of the health of land resources through human actions in ways that threaten their ability to maintain their environmental functions eg salinity, accelerated soil erosion, loss of biodiversity and habitats.
Land degradation
The Colosseum in Italy, Petra in Jordan, Chichén Itzá in Mexico, Christ the Redeemer in Brazil, Machu Picchu in Peru, Taj Mahal in India and The Great Wall of China.
The capacity to meet the needs of the present and continue to support our lives and the lives of other living creatures into the future.
sustainability
What was the most-watched series on Netflix in 2019?
Stranger Things
A major terrestrial vegetation community eg a tropical forest, a temperate grassland or a desert.
Biome
Interconnected sequences that form and transform natural environments in a cause-and-effect relationship eg erosion, deposition, soil formation, nutrient cycling.
biophysical processes
What is the highest mountain in the world?
Mount Everest
When all people at all times have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain healthy and active lives.
Food security
How many bones are in the human body?
206
The average types of weather, including seasonal variations, experienced by a place or region over a long period of time.
Climate