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LANDSCAPES
LANDFORMS
VALUE OF LANDSCAPES
LAND DEGREDATION
GEOGRAPHICAL SKILLS
100
A landscape where land mass meets the sea, and is shaped by the natural forces of the wind and waves.
What is a coastal landscape?
100
A naturally occurring distinct feature of the Earth's surface.
What is a "landform"?
100
The four values that can be placed, and can sometimes conflict, on landscapes.
What are terms 'aesthetic', 'cultural', 'spiritual' and 'economic' used for?
100

When severe land damage causes a movement of sediment/soil and destruction

What is erosion?

100
The study of place, space and environment.
What is Geography?
200
A landscape that is formed by the natural movement of a water system, or is defined as a network of waterways and the surrounding land.
What is a riverine landscape?
200
An extensive area of flat land that is higher than the land around it.
What is a "Plateau"?
200
A measurement of how financially important or valuable a landscape is.
What is the "economic value" placed on land?
200
Weathering.
What is the term used to explain the moving of eroded land?
200
Hydrosphere, Biosphere, Lithosphere, Atmosphere
What are the spheres of the Earth?
300
A desert landscape.
What is an area of land that receives no mare than 2 - 5 millimetres of rain per year called?
300
Low land between hills or mountains that usually has a river flowing through it.
What is a "valley"?
300
The beauty and uniqueness a landscape brings by how appealing it is to the senses.
What is "aesthetic value"?
300
The wearing away of land due to natural processes such as wind or water.
What is erosion?
300

What does NGO stand for:

Non ________________  Organisation

Government

400
A landscape formed when easily dissolvable bedrock is worn away by slightly acidic water.
What is a karst landscape?
400
The sphere of the Earth that is concerned with rocks and the Earth's surface.
What is the "lithosphere" (geosphere)?
400
Cultural Value.
What is the term that describes valuing landscapes through creative measures and Australian identity?
400
The cutting down of large amounts of trees or other types of flora in order to use the land for infrastructure or other uses.
What is "deforestation"?
400
A map that uses lines to indicate the height and slope of land.
What is a "contour map"?
500
"Landscape"
What is the term that defines an area of the Earth sharing similar natural characteristics and geographical features?
500

Geomorphology.

What is the term used to describe the study of the processes that have changed the Earth's surface?

500
When the same landscape can be valued by different people for different reasons.
What does "conflicting values" mean?
500
Creating soil that becomes unviable and will be unable to grow crops or flora.
What is the main impact of land degradation?
500
A map that shows all features of the natural environment and the human environment.
What is a "topographic map"?