Geography Paper 1 - Statistics

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Description:	Key Term:	% Correct
The point on Earth's surface, above the focus, where the shaking is the most strong	Epicentre	100%
Turning from a liquid into a gas	Evaporation	100%
The point underground where an earthquake originates	Focus	100%
A tropical storm formed over seas that have a temperature of over 27 degrees and windspeeds of over 75mph	Typhoon/Hurricane/Cyclone	100%
The non-living features of an ecosystem	Abiotic	80%
A large range of species of plants and animals in a given area	Biodiversity	80%
A global ecosystem stretching for hundreds or thousands of miles	Biome	80%
The living features of an ecosystem	Biotic	80%
A change in the regular patterns of climate	Climate Change	80%
Turning from a gas into a liquid	Condensation	80%
What eats other living organisms for their food	Consumer	80%
Thick but light crust (with continents on)	Continental Crust	80%
What breaks down remains of plants and animals for food	Decomposer	80%
Cutting down trees for logging/urbanisation/agriculture	Deforestation	80%
When the sea/river drops the eroded material	Deposition	80%
A natural system made up of plants, animals and the environment	Ecosystem	80%
Nature tourism in small groups and minimal environmental impact	Ecotourism	80%
The removal of weathered material by force such as water or air	Erosion	80%
Shows the complex connections between producers, consumers and decomposers	Food web	80%
Non-renewable energy sources (coal, oil and natural gas) which are burnt to produce electricity	Fossil Fuels	80%
Increased volume of greenhouse gas retains more heat in the atmosphere leading to global warming	Greenhouse Effect	80%
Thin but dense crust ( with the ocean on top)	Oceanic Crust	80%
Any form of water falling from the sky	Precipitation	80%
What converts energy from the environment into food (e.g. photosynthesis)	Producer	80%
Dark patches on the surface of the sun that give out more heat	Sunspots	80%
When the sea/river moves the eroded material	Transportation	80%
The volume of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by an individual or organisation	Carbon Footprint	60%
Two plates moving against/passing eachother	Conservative Boundary	60%
Two plates moving away from eachother	Constructive Boundary	60%
The force generated by the spinning of the Earth	Coriolis Effect	60%
When soil is dried out and turns to infertile sand making the desert grow	Desertification	60%
Two plates moving towards each other (type of boundary)	Destructive Boundary	60%
Transport of sediment along a beach by the waves	Longshore Drift	60%
Where a river flows/connects to the sea	Mouth	60%
Where a river begins in the upper course	Source	60%
A rising of the sea due to the wind and low pressure of a storm	Storm Surge	60%
Where one plate is pushed under another	Subduction Zone	60%
How plants and animals change to help them survive in difficult conditions	Adaptations	40%
Large ridged roots above ground to stabilise tall emergent trees	Buttress Roots	40%
An area to absorb carbon dioxide from the air (e.g. rainforests)	Carbon Sink	40%
Landforms of erosion where soft rock erodes quickly, and hard rock remains	Headlands and Bays	40%
3 Distinct cycles the orbit of the Earth experiences	Milankovitch Cycles	40%
Cutting down specific trees in a managed timeframe	Selective logging	40%
Depositional landforms created by longshore drift	Spits and Bars	40%
To use what is needed for today but not affect future generations	Sustainable	40%
A landform of erosion found in the upper course	Waterfall	40%
The weakening and breakup of rock	Weathering	40%
The difficulties of living somewhere so hot, dry and empty	Challenges	20%
Hard and soft engineering techniques to protect the coastline from erosion and flooding	Coastal Defences	20%
The amount of water in a river at a given point and time	Discharge	20%
Where deserts are spread across the world	Distribution	20%
Plants that live on other plants to survive	Epiphytes	20%
The area either side of a river in the middle/lower course	Floodplain	20%
Circular air movements called cells that make up the overall circulation of the Earth's atmosphere	Global Atmospheric Circulation	20%
Air that is sinking towards the ground (e.g. sub-tropical high 30 degrees North and South	High Air Pressure	20%
A graph that shows peak rainfall and peak discharge	Hydrograph	20%
When countries around the world agree to work together to reduce climate change	International Agreements	20%
Air that is rising from the ground (e.g. equatorial low)	Low Air Pressure	20%
Using the hot and dry conditions as an advantage	Opportunites	20%
When the soil is overused by farmers and is open to soil erosion & desertification	Overcultivation	20%
Managing and using the land ineffectively therefore allowing desertification to occur	Poor Land Management	20%
When the surface water is evaporated, and salt is left behind causing poor soil quality	Salinization	20%
The cooling of the atmosphere due to volcanoes erupting ash which blocks out the sun	Volcanic Winter	20%
Landforms created by lateral erosion and deposition	Meander and Oxbow lake	0%

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