Skills
Another name for Climate graphs is called?
Climographs
What compass point lies in the opposite direction to north?
South
what does biotic and abiotic mean?
Living things and non-living things
Tundra is located in which hemisphere?
northern
What are the 4 challenges of food production?
Water scarcity, pollution, land loss and degradation and climate change
What are choropleth maps?
These use different colour shades to show the amount or value of something.
Which hemisphere is the United States located?
Northern Hemisphere
Adaptations are....
characteristics that enable organisms to better survive and reproduce.
7. A biome is best represented by a:
A. river B. city C. latitude D. desert
Desert
MALTHUSIAN CRISIS
During the nineteenth century, Thomas Malthus was concerned that the population was growing faster than they could produce food, so he predicted a catastrophe. However, technological advances and the Green Revolution allowed humans to produce more food on a larger scale through monoculture to feed the growing population.
What does gradient mean?
It is a measure of how steep a slope is between two points.
If you went to Japan in July, which season would it be?
Summer
What factors influence temperature and precipitation?
◆ latitude ◆ elevation ◆ wind ◆ ocean currents
Which of the following is a biotic component of an ecosystem? A. moisture B. sand C. bacteria D. temperature
C. Bacteria
Monoculture is
the use of land for growing only one type of crop.
_____________is the distance measured in degrees north or south from the equator.
Latitude
Which continent is Egypt located?
Africa
If you lived in a temperate deciduous forest, what type of seasons would you encounter?
• large seasonal changes • four distinct seasons • long warm growing season
Is biosphere bigger than a biome?
Yes, a biome is defined by the types of life that you find within them, such as tundra or desert, while the biosphere is all areas of the earth were life exists.
a measurement of the amount of a crop grown, or product such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.
Crop yield
How many directions are there in a compass? Can you name them?
16
N, NNE, NE, ENE, E, ESE, SE, SSE, S, SSW, SW, WSW, W, WNW, NW, NNW, N
If I was taking a photograph from an aircraft on an angle, which image would I be taking?
Oblique aeriel
What causes thick, green muck that impacts clear water, recreation, businesses and property values. Excess nitrogen and phosphorus cause an overgrowth of algae in a short period of time.
Algae Bloom
What land biome contains the most abundant plant and animal life on earth?
Rainforests
Three factors that affect Crop yield
1.Environmental factors, such as soil quality, climate and topography
2.Socio-Economic factors, such as trade, government policies, market conditions and possible social/political unrest
3.Technological factors, such as genetically modified crops, machinery, irrigation, GPS and other mapping systems etc