Final Guide questions

6th Exam Guide

1. What is water cycle?

2. Why is it a closed system?

3. Name and describe the phases of water cycle (evaporation, condensation, etc.)

4. Drainage basin: write down examples of inputs and outputs

5. Why is a drainage basin an open system?

6. Where can fresh water be found?

7. Where is the largest amount of water located? (rivers, lakes, atmosphere,…?)

8. Write down examples of uses for water

Coasts

9. What is a coastline?

10. Name the 4 factors affecting the coast.

11. Name the movements of waves in the beach.

12. Waves can deposit or remove sediment from the beach. What are their names.

13. Name the four ecosystems found in coastlines (learnt in class)

14. Where can coral reefs found? What are they made of?

15. What is a mangrove?

16. What is the main requirement for sand dunes to form?

17. What is a salt marsh?

Hazards.

18. What is a hazard?

19. Name the four groups of hazards

20. What is mitigation?

21. Name 5 tectonic plates.

22. What is an earthquake?

23. What is a focus?

24. What is the epicenter?

25. What is a tsunami?

26. Where are tropical storms formed?

27. Name two ways to track tropical storms.

Economic sectors.

28. What is an economic activity?

29. How many economic sectors are there?

30. One example of primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary sector.

31. What is the pre industrial phase?

32. What is the industrial phase?

33. What is the post industrial phase?

34. What is urbanization?

35. What is the informal sector?

36. One example of informal sector

Migration and development indicators

37. What is migration?

38. What is the difference between forced and voluntary migration?

39. What is a push factor for migration?

40. What is a pull factor for migration?

41. Name one example of an economic development strand (indicator)

42. What is the gross domestic product?

42. What does HDI stands for?

43. What does Human Development index use to measure life quality?

44. What are literacy rate and life expectancy?

45. What is per capita income?

Fragile environments

46. What is the ecological footprint?

47. What is sustainability?

48. What is soil erosion?

49. What is desertification?

50. Name 2 consequences of soil erosion

51. Why are rainforests being cut down?

52. What is global warming?

53. Consequences of global warming

54. What is greenhouse effect?

55. What are the greenhouse gases?

56. Name 2 greenhouse gases and how are they produced.