Landforms Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Landscapes and Landforms Test

Detailed notes and case studies in relation to the specification of OCR Geography Coastal Landscapes unit.

Landforms-E - Erg Landforms-F - Flat Landforms-G - Glacier Landforms-H - Hill Landforms-I - Island Landforms-J - None Landforms-K - Kettle Landforms-L - Lake

Continental Ice Sheets - Glaciers formed in non-mountainous areas of continents Only 2 exist today: Greenland and Antarctica Ice Shelfs: Where they meet the sea Vary in thickness from hundreds of feet to two miles deep Crustal Depression - Enormous weight of ice sheets Isostatic adjustment, crust is rebounding where glacial ice existed Response to weight loss Depositional Glacial Landforms - All debris in the ice is eventually brought to the ablation zone and deposited Modes: Directed...

Continental Ice Sheets - Glaciers formed in non-mountainous areas of continents Only 2 exist today: Greenland and Antarctica Ice Shelfs: Where they meet the sea Vary in thickness from hundreds of feet to two miles deep Crustal Depression - Enormous weight of ice sheets Isostatic adjustment, crust is rebounding where glacial ice existed Response to weight loss Depositional Glacial Landforms - All debris in the ice is eventually brought to the ablation zone and deposited Modes: Directed...

definition of geography - Answer-study of Earth as the home of humanity exurbia - Answer-area beyond the suburbs literal meaning of the word "geography" - Answer-"Earth writing" (ancient Greek) physical geography - Answer-earth science - focuses on rocks, landforms, their distribution, etc. human geography - Answer-human activity, culture, society - draws from other social sciences techniques - Answer-cartography, remote sensing, GIS, spatial statistics areal differentiation - Answer-...

CGC1D1 : Exam Review Questions & Answers 2024/2025 What are the three key questions, and what do they mean? - ANSWERSWHAT IS WHERE? Geography is all about location. You need to know the location of something before you can move on to more complex questions. There are two types of location in geography: absolute location and relative location. WHY THERE? There are both simple and complex reasons why things are located where they are. In some cases, the natural environment, such as la...

GEG 111 Exam 3 Which of the following is an exogenic process? - CORRECT ANSWER weathering Which of the following is an endogenic process? - CORRECT ANSWER volcanism Uniformitarianism assumes that - CORRECT ANSWER the same physical processes we see today are a key to understanding the processes that have been operating throughout geologic time Which of the following is CORRECT regarding the geologic time scale? - CORRECT ANSWER The bulk of Earth's history has occurred during th...

Ocean 100 SacramentoGrilo Exam 1 with Complete Solutions science study of the physical, natural world through observations & experiments scientific method principles & empirical processes of discovery & demonstration considered characteristic of/ necessary for scientific investigation what are the steps of the scientific method? (1) observation (2) hypothesis (3) testing/experimenting (4) theory hypothesis idea proposed to explain 1 or more facts; must be testable & potentiall...