Geography WJEC

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The three features of rivers in the upper course are waterfalls, gorges and what?
v shaped valley
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The four ways rocks can be transported in water are saltation ,solution, suspension and what?
traction
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The five types of erosion are hydraulic, pneumatic, abrasion, attrition and what?
corrosion
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The eight parts of a drainage basin system are precipitation, infiltration through flow, surface glee, ground water flow, transpiration, interception and what?
percolation
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The two types of migration are rural to urban and what?
countryside to city
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What is the word for the movement of people between locations?
migration
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Shanty towns in Kibera can be improved by cleaning up, health centres, education and what?
community centres
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Three positives for building on a greenfield site are theres a blank canvas, n demolition is needed and theres what?
motorway links
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Three negatives for building on a greenfield site are it kills wildlife, its more expensive, and its what?
not flat
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Three positives for building on a brownfield site are the foundations are in place, there are utilities in place and what is nearby?
services
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Three negatives for building on a brownfield site are its a smaller space, it needs demolition and it has what?
restrictions
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What is the street called in Hull where they built high rise flats, removed the needles from the streets, provided accommodation for the homeless and hired night wardens?
gt thornton
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When was comprehensive redevelopment?
nineteen sixties
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What was it called when they knocked down terraced houses to build high rise flats?
comprehensive redevelopment
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The four ways to describe distributions are regular, clustered, random and what?
linear
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Who doesn't benefit from St Stephens shopping centre in hull
high street shop owners
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Whats after the CBD in the order of zones?
inner city
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Whats After inner city in the order of zones?
inner suburbs
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Whats after the inner suburbs in the order of zones?
outer city council estate
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Whats after the outer city council estate in the order of zones?
outer suburbs
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Whats after the outer suburbs in the order of zones?
green belt
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Whats after the green belt in the order of zones?
commuter settlement
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Who decides where people on the waiting list for social housing live?
housing officer
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Social landlords use what type of system?
points
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Private landlords often agree to let the property for how long?
six months
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In order to buy a house you need a regular sum of money or a regular what?
wage
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The three options for buying/ renting houses are owning your own home, renting from a private landlord or renting from who?
council
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Which part of the city has the best transport?
cbd
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What type of erosion produces gorges?
vertical
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What is the product called when a waterfall erodes backwards?
gorge
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What are the lumps of hard rock that water zig zags around in v shaped valleys?
interlocking spurs
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Whats the pool called in a waterfall where the hard rock drops into when the soft rock underneath erodes?
plunge pool
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The four features of a river in the lower course are meanders, oxbow lakes, flood plains and what?
deltas
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Whats the posh name for the line of best fit on a river pathway?
thalweg
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What feature is produced when a meander erodes and produces two lakes?
oxbow lake
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Whats the posh name for lots of layers of mud built up around a river?
alluvium
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Whats the name for the feature produced when lots of layers of mud are deposited either side of a river when it floods?
flood plain
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What're the banks that build up on the side of a river called?
levees
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Whats the feature called when mud builds out into the sea in a D shape?
delta
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A delta is made up with sand, mud and what?
vegetation
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In the upper course of the river Tees, there are tributaries, v shaped valleys, waterfalls and what?
gorges
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What is the waterfall called at the river Tees?
high force
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The upper course of the river Tees is used for sheep farming, quarries and what?
reservoirs
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The lower course of the river Tees is made up of meanders, estuaries and what?
oxbow lakes
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The lower course of the river Tees is used for arable farming, settlements, ports, factories, power stations and what?
oil refineries
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When were the Lynmouth floods?
nineteen fifty two
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Where is Lynmouth?
devon
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The physical course of the Lynmouth floods were nine inches of rain in three hours, the bedrock was impervious and what ?
thin soil
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The human causes of the Lynmouth floods were, buildings next to the river mouth, no emergency plans in place, and what?
cloud seeding
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Soft engineering techniques for flood management are planting trees and what?
land use zoning
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Hard engineering techniques for flood management are storm drains, damns, flood walls, pumping stations, straightening, widening and depending the river and what?
embankments
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When was the Bangladesh flood?
nineteen ninety eight
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Causes of the Bangladesh flood were heavy monsoon rain, very flat land less that 1m above sea level and what?
deforestation
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Effects of the Bangladesh floods are 35 million starved, rice could be planted and what?
crops drowned
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Three management techniques for the Bangladesh flood are houses on stilts, warning people and what?
mud embankments
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Whats the word for a period of time where it is dryer than usual?
drought
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When was the UK drought?
two thousand and twelve
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How many years have the UK had dry winters?
forty
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Which part of England has a higher risk of drought?
south east
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Is the UK an MEDC or LEDC?
medc
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The east of South Africa has more rain than the west because wet winds blow from which ocean?
indian
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Why doesn't South Africa need as much water as the UK?
less developed
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Whats the large scale water management scheme in South Africa called?
lesotho highlands water project
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Two sustainable management schemes for South Africa are play pumps and what?
rain harvesting
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The six parts of a drainage basin are mouth, source, estuary, tributary, confluence and what?
watershed
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When the wind blows over the sea and causes friction it produces what?
waves
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A large distance of the sea in which wind blows over is called its what?
fetch
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When the water rises or lowers its called the ?
tide
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The tide is caused by the gravitational pull of the what?
moon
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What type of wave washes up the beach?
swash
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What type of wave washes down the beach?
backwash
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What type of wave adds material?
constructive
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What type of wave takes away material?
destructive
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Is a bay formed by fast or slow erosion?
fast
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Is a headland formed by fast or slow erosion?
slow
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What hotel fell onto a beach due to rotational slumping?
holbeck hall
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What type of ground was Holbeck hall built on?
clay
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The three features of coastal deposition are spits/bars, tombolas and what?
beaches
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What is the process involved in coastal deposition?
longshore drift
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Name a place with spits/bars
spurn point
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Name a place with tombolas
chesil beach
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Three factors that make coastlines easily eroded are no beach, soft rock and what ?
big fetch
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6 Hard engineering coastal defences are sea walls, rock armour, baffles, hexagonal hives, groins and what?
gabions
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Three soft engineering coastal defences are beach reprofiling, managed retreat and what?
beach replenishment
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The seven places on the East Yorkshire coast are Flamborough, Brampton, Mappleton, Cowden, Withernsea, Spurn Point and ?
easington
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Which place on the East Yorkshire coast has groins and sea walls?
withernsea
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Which place on the East Yorkshire coast has a nature reserve?
spurn point
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Mappleton is protected because it has a what?
town
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Essex is in what part of England?
south east
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Essex is easily flooded because it is flat, low down and made of what?
soft mud
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They protected Essex from flooding by concrete sea walls, beach replenishment and what?
managed retreat
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Wildlife, people in towns/ cities and who else benefitted from the managed retreat in Essex?
conservationists
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Whats the name for the condition of the air around us over a short period of time ( days )?
weather
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6 Features of the weather are temperature, visibility, wind speed, precipitation, air pressure and what?
cloud cover
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Whats the word for the average weather over a long period of time ( years ) ?
climate
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The three types of rain are frontal, relief and what?
convectional
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In relief rainfall, warm air is forced to rise over the ____?
mountains
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In convectional rainfall, the _____ is heated by the sun?
ground
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Frontal rain is when a mass of ___ air rises above the colder, heavier rain?
warm
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Whats the name for the low pressure weather system?
depression
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Whats the name for the high pressure weather system?
anticyclone
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(No cloud, sunny, warm, light breeze, unchangeable) is this a high pressure system in summer or a low pressure?
high pressure
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(No cloud, cold, frosty, little wind, unchangeable) is this a low pressure weather system in winter or a high pressure?
high pressure
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(Lots of cloud, heavy rain, strong wind, very changeable) is this a low pressure weather system in summer or a high pressure?
low pressure
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(lots of cloud, sleet, snow, strong wind, very changeable) is this a low pressure weather system in winter or a high pressure in winter?
low pressure
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What year was the Chicago heatwave?
nineteen ninety five
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How many deaths were there in the Chicago heatwave?
five hundred and twenty five
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How long did the Chicago heatwave last?
one week?
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What was the top temperature in the Chicago heatwave?(degrees)
one hundred
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When we have low pressure weather events closer to the equator, it can lead to what?
tropical storms
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When hurricanes form, what do the masses of clouds do?
spin
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Which direction do clouds move in a hurricane?
west
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Hurricanes slowly die out as they lose what?
energy
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When was hurricane Katrina?
two thousand and five
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What was the top windspeed in hurricane Katrine? (mph)
one hundred and seventy five
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Three environmental impacts of hurricane Katrina were levees broke, flooding and what?
woodland ruined
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How many peoples homes were destroyed in hurricane Katrina?
two hundred thousand
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When was the great storm of Britain?
nineteen eighty seven
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How many people died in the great storm of Britain?
nineteen
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What was the top wind speed in the great storm of Britain?(mph)
one hundred and ten
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Four economic impacts of the great storm of Britain were collapsed buildings, no transport, business closed, and what went up?
insurance
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Where are the most rainforests?
equator
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The four places rainforests are located are South America, Africa, South Asia and where?
australia
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Wheres the larges area of tropical rainforests?
south america
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Where is the Amazon rainforest?
brazil
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The four layers of the rainforest are the emergent layer, the canopy, the under canopy and the what?
shrub layer
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Which layer of the rainforest has the most sun?
emergent
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Which layer of the rainforest does fungi grow?
shrub layer
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What does indigenous mean?
original
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Whats the name of the tribe occupying a lot of the Brazil rainforest?
kayapo
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The Kayapo tribe entertain themselves by singing and what?
dancing
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