Landscapes and Physical Processes overview quiz - WJEC GCSE Geography quiz

Unit 1 Changing Physical and Human Landscapes, a 1 hour 30 minute written exam worth 35 percent

Unit 2 Environmental and Development Issues

Unit 3 Fieldwork Enquiry

A non-examined assessment

Only its geology

Only the presence of a river

The particular combination of relief, geology, drainage, soils, ecology and human features

The number of people living there

Deep fertile soils and intensive arable farming

Steep slopes, thin acidic soils and fast narrow rivers

A wide flat floodplain with slow meanders

Dense city settlement on flat land

Saltation

Suspension

Traction

Hydraulic action

In the upper course

In the lower course

At the river mouth

On the floodplain

By a waterfall retreating upstream

By longshore drift along a coast

By a meander neck being cut through and then sealed by deposition

By a dam being built across a river

High, steep waves with a strong backwash that erode the beach

Low waves with a strong swash and weak backwash that build the beach

Waves that only occur during storms

Waves that move sediment straight out to sea

Beach, spit, bar, lagoon

Meander, ox-bow lake, floodplain

Watershed, tributary, mouth

Crack, cave, arch, stack, stump

The zig-zag movement of sediment along a coast by swash and backwash

The collapse of a cliff into the sea

The freezing of water in cracks in rock

The dissolving of limestone by acidic water

Interception

Infiltration

River discharge

Throughflow

The total amount of rainfall

The gap between peak rainfall and peak discharge

The width of the river channel

The speed of the river current

Tarmac and roofs increase interception

It adds more trees to the basin

Impermeable surfaces and drains speed run-off, shortening lag time and raising the peak

It makes rainfall heavier

Afforestation of the upper basin

A dam and reservoir

Floodplain zoning

A flood warning system

By multiple-choice questions only

By an essay with no resources

By data response using OS maps, photographs, graphs and diagrams

By a spoken presentation