Human and Physical Geography
This is a feature of physical Geography caused by heavy rainfall. It can be extremely damaging.
What is flooding?
This continent has more people than any other.
What is Asia?
This type of building is shown on maps as a square or circle with a cross on top.
What is a church?
A feature in the upper course of a river which is formed when there is a layer of hard rock on top of a layer of soft rock. The soft rock is eroded faster leaving an overhang.
What is a waterfall?
This country has the largest population in the world today.
What is India?
This feature of human Geography has grown rapidly in the last 200 years, and now stands at 8 billion worldwide.
What is population?
This country is one of the largest in the world and is the most northern on the American continent.
What is Canada?
These lines on maps show the height of the land.
What are contour lines?
The land either side of a river. This is a V-shape in the upper course.
What is a valley?
This is one way that population can be shown. It is divided between men and women and different age groups.
What is a population pyramid?
This feature of physical Geography is a word that is used to describe the bends in a river that occur during its middle and lower courses.
What is a meander?
This country is an island located off the western coast of Europe.
What is the UK?
These places are shown on maps as a white P in a blue square.
What are car parks?
This is what a river does to the land. It means gradually wearing it down.
What is erosion?
This was an attempt by the Chinese government to slow down the growth in population.
What was the one-child policy?
This feature of human Geography describes the movement of people from the countryside to the city, causing cities to grow.
What is urbanisation?
This continent lies south of Europe and west of Asia.
What is Africa?
This feature of maps shows how many centimeters represents a kilometre.
What is scale?
A feature of the lower course of a river caused by a meander breaking away from the main part of the river after a flood.
What is an ox-bow lake?
This is the difference between the number of live births and the number of deaths.
What is natural increase?
This feature of human Geography is the word used to describe the movement of people from one country to another in order to live and work.
What is migration?
This country in South America is the largest on its continent.
What is Brazil?
These numbers - usually four or six - help to locate places on a map.
What are grid references?
The catchment area surrounding a river where any rainfall will end up in the river.
What is a drainage basin?
This is the main reason why population has increased so much in the last 200 years. It has reduced the death rate, increased the number of mothers and babies surviving childbirth, and increased life expectancy.
What is improved healthcare?