The cards Question What is a biome? Tap to flip Answer A large-scale global ecosystem, for example tropical rainforest. Question In geography, what does distribution mean? Tap to flip Answer The spread of something, such as a type of vegetation, which may have a regular pattern. Question What is climate? Tap to flip Answer The average weather conditions, such as rainfall and temperature, recorded over a 30-year period. Question What is latitude? Tap to flip Answer Distance north or south of the Equator. Question In which direction do lines of latitude run on a map? Tap to flip Answer East–west. Question What is the broad pattern of global biome distribution? Tap to flip Answer Broadly latitudinal, with tropical rainforests near the Equator and tundra near the poles. Question Why does each biome have distinct characteristics? Tap to flip Answer Because of its specific climate. Question Are all areas of the same biome physically connected? Tap to flip Answer No. A biome can occur on different continents at the same or a similar latitude, as tropical rainforest does. Question On a large scale, what is the main factor affecting the distribution of biomes? Tap to flip Answer Climate. Question What is altitude? Tap to flip Answer Height above sea level. Question In geography, what is drainage? Tap to flip Answer The distribution, storage and movement of water in the environment. Question Give one local factor that can affect the local distribution of biomes. Tap to flip Answer For example altitude, rock type, soil type or drainage. Question Are the plants and animals the same everywhere within a biome? Tap to flip Answer No. Small-scale variation occurs within a biome because of local factors. Question What is the biosphere? Tap to flip Answer The 'living' layer of Earth, below the atmosphere. Question Who are indigenous people? Tap to flip Answer People who have lived in an area from the earliest times, before colonists arrived. Question In geography, what are resources? Tap to flip Answer Materials available in the environment, such as water, food and wood, that support our wants and needs. Question What is commercial exploitation? Tap to flip Answer Extracting and trading materials, such as wood, for profit. Question What are mineral resources? Tap to flip Answer Economically valuable material concentrated in Earth's crust, such as copper and oil. Question Give one commercial resource that the biosphere provides. Tap to flip Answer For example energy, water or minerals. Question Are indigenous people cut off from the commercial world? Tap to flip Answer No. They are increasingly linked to the wider world through technology and are affected by large-scale commercial resource exploitation. Question What is the atmosphere? Tap to flip Answer The air above our heads, made up of gases, solids and liquids. Question What are ecosystem services? Tap to flip Answer Benefits that support human life, gained from the day-to-day functioning of the world's ecosystems. Question What is soil health? Tap to flip Answer The structure, composition and nutrient content of a soil; a measure of soil fertility. Question What is the hydrological cycle? Tap to flip Answer The continuous recycling of water in its different states, for example through rainfall and evaporation. Question Give one way the biosphere regulates the environment. Tap to flip Answer For example it regulates the composition of the atmosphere, maintains soil health or regulates water in the hydrological cycle. Question Does the biosphere have little impact on the atmosphere? Tap to flip Answer No. It has significant impacts on the atmosphere's composition, affecting the concentration of gases and the moisture content. Question What is industrialisation? Tap to flip Answer When a mainly agricultural society changes and begins to depend more on manufacturing industries. Question What is affluence? Tap to flip Answer The wealth of individuals or societies, which rises with industrialisation and the creation of a middle class. Question What is urbanisation? Tap to flip Answer A rise in the proportion of people living in urban areas. Question What view did Thomas Malthus take of the link between population growth and resources? Tap to flip Answer A pessimistic view. Question What view did Ester Boserup take of the link between population growth and agriculture? Tap to flip Answer An optimistic view. Question Give one resource for which global demand is increasing. Tap to flip Answer For example food, energy or water. Question Give one cause of increasing demand for resources. Tap to flip Answer For example population growth, rising affluence, urbanisation or industrialisation. Question Are global resources running out only because the global population is rising? Tap to flip Answer No. Population growth is just one of many factors increasing the demand for resources. Question What is a GIS (geographic information system)? Tap to flip Answer A computer system that captures, analyses and displays geographic data to help understand spatial patterns. Question What is a webmap? Tap to flip Answer A digital map available online, usually interactive, which can be created or saved by the user in the cloud. Question What is spatial distribution? Tap to flip Answer The spread of data across an area, creating spatial patterns that geographers describe, explain and analyse. Question In GIS, what is a filter? Tap to flip Answer Selecting some of the data in a GIS layer so that spatial patterns can be seen more clearly. Question Does a GIS basemap need to be attractive? Tap to flip Answer No. It is a backdrop for the data; a very bland basemap is sometimes most effective because it contrasts with the data layer. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage GCSE (Years 10–11) Course GCSE Geography Unit Global biomes Exam boards Edexcel B England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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