Distinctive UK Landscapes

The following picture demonstrates which type of landscape

• Uplands

• Glaciated

• Lowlands

Igneous rock is rock formed through ...

• heat and pressure

• Sediments settling and compression

• volcanic eruptions

Variables within a landscape include

• Weather, hills, rivers...anything natural

• Factors that can change e.g. cars, roads, houses

• Non permanent aspects e.g. weather, smells and sounds

• Variations within the landscape

Mountains influences the landscape through

• Climate

• Relief

• Human activity

• Types of vegetation

Orographic rainfall is

• as a result of heat from the sun

• as a result of 2 weather fronts meeting

• as a result of air being forced to rise over mountains

• caused by orography

Hard igneous rock which has been able to withstand the force of ice ages. Mountains are often jagged and uneven. Describes a....

• Glaciated landscape

• Upland landscape

• Lowland landscape

Glaciers move at their fastest...

• 4km per day

• 400meters a day

• 40 meters a day

• glaciers don't move

The global water cycle is a

• Open system- there are input and outputs

• Closed system-there are no inputs or outputs

• Closed system- there are no inputs but can be outputs

• Open system- there are inputs but no outputs

UK Prevailing winds will come from the ...

• North

• East

• South

• West

The rainshadow occurs on the

• Windward side of a mountain

• The leeward side of a mountain

• The upper side of a mountain

• The lowside of a mountain