Year 10 Geography Half Yearly Exam Part 1

The oxygen cycle, food chains, photosynthesis, evolution, extinction and migration are all key examples of what geographical processes? ( choose your answer from atmospheric, lithospheric, biospheric or hydrospheric )

Erosion, weathering, nitrogen and phosphorous cycle and tectonic processes are all key components of which geographic process? ( choose your answer from atmospheric, lithospheric, biospheric or hydrospheric )

Erosion can best be described as?

• The wearing away of earth by wind, teactonic forces or ice.

• The wearing away of the earth by wind, fire and rain.

• The movement of sediment from coastal environments.

• The wearing away of earth by wind, water or ice.

What is the physical and chemical disintegration of rocks and minerals called?

The long-term process where species have changed and developed from earlier forms of species to become more suited to particular environments is called?

Water droplets or ice crystals become too heavy to be suspended in the air and fall to Earth as rain,snow, sleet or hail is called?

• Rainfall

• Precipitation

• Low Pressure System

• Cyclone

The process of including evaporation from water storage areas ( like dams and pools ) as well as evaporation from trees is called?

• Evapotranspiration

• Condensation

• Runoff

• Infiltrration

Any change in climate over time, whether due to natural processes or human activities is called?

The increased ability of the Earth's atmosphere to trap heat is called?

These are formed when sand on a beach is stabilised by vegetation?