Tropical Landforms and Ecosystems: Key Terms

An intrusive igneous rock which is crystalline and resistant with no bedding planes and relatively sparse vertical joints

• Laterite

• Granite

• Gneiss

• Sandstone

A large steep sided, dome shaped hill, standing out of a plain, commonly made of granite or gneiss

• cone

• bornhardt

• tor

• lliana

A smaller outcrop of rock, often made of granite, on a plain or at the summit of a smooth sloped rounded hill

• Inselberg

• Tor

• Tar

• Epiphyte

Which of these factors creates a plagioclimax succession on tropical savanna. More than 1 correct answer.

• Grazing

• Precipitation

• Fire

• Daylength

A plant adaptation in tropical rainforest which allows a plant to take root higher up in the canopy to access higher levels of insolation

• Epilogue

• Epicentre

• Epiphyte

• Liana

The two theories of inselberg formation

• Exhumation theory

• Exhaltation Theory

• Parallel retreat and pediplanation

• Bornhardtification

A weakly formed horizontal joint in granite

• Cleavage

• Pseudo bedding plane

• Bedding plane

• Aeroplane

A large piece of rock that weathers in place and might be surrounded by weathered material or exposed

• Gneiss

• Core stone

• Care stone

• Granite

The'weathered front' between solid rock and saprolite (weathered rock)

• Soil profile

• Bedding Plane

• Watertable

• Basal surface of weathering

A ........................... is a sequence of different soil profiles that occur down a slope

• Soil profile

• Soil catena

• Soil Catalina

• Soil creep