Tectonics
What are the 4 layers of the Earth?
Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core
What is population density?
The number of people living per square km
What is a colony?
When a country is being ruled by another country
What is climate change?
The long term changes in the Earth's climate, especially a change due to an increase in the Earth's atmospheric temperature
What is the biggest biome in the Middle East?
Desert
Give reason why people live in hazardous areas
family, poverty, settlement established before knowledge of tectonics, jobs in tourism etc.
Give one reason why global population is increasing?
What is a subsistence farmer?
Someone who farms for their family and not for profit
Give a mitigation strategy for climate change
Which 3 continents does the Middle East region span?
Europe, Asia and Africa
On which 2 types of plate margin do volcanoes form?
Destructive and Constructive
All inhabited continents were expected to have population growth over the next 15 years with the exception of...
Europe, which is projected to decrease by slightly less than 1%
How many countries are there in Africa?
54
What is a climate refugee?
Someone who has had to leave their home due to the impacts of climate change
How many countries and states are there in the Middle East?
16 plus 1 state
What causes tectonic plates to move?
Convection currents
What is fertility rate?
The average number of children a woman in a country has
Kenya's capital, Nairobi, can credit it's growth to ...
The train station, following which lots of migrant workers from India remained
How does an ice stupa work?
Excess water in the winter is saved and frozen around an artificial structure, which slowly melts in the spring providing local communities with water in a time that they would have less water than they need
High pressure brings what kind of weather to the region?
Warm weather with little precipitation
What machines are used to measure the strength of earthquakes?
Seismometers
What is an asylum seeker?
A person who claims to be a refugee but is waiting to be granted refugee status. Not every asylum seeker will be recognised as a refugee, but every refugee is initially an asylum seeker.
What type of plate boundary is causing the Great Rift Valley to form?
Constructive
Give 2 ways that climate change can be measured
ocean sediments, tree rings, ice cores, cloud cover
What is the Mediterranean biome like?
Characterised by hot dry summers and mild and rainy winters, has a high level of biodiversity.