IGCSE Unit 2 SPEC Geography 0460 Quiz

What are the main types of volcanoes?

• Composite cone and magma chamber

• Strato-volcanoes and shield volcano

• Crater and vent

• Epicentre and focus

What are the 3 main tectonic boundaries?

• Tributary and confluence

• Plate movements and magma chamber

• Subduction zones and their effects

• Constructive/divergent, destructive/convergent and conservative plate boundaries

What are the characteristics of rivers and drainage basins?

• Width, depth, speed of flow, discharge and watershed

• Infiltration, throughflow, groundwater flow, evaporation, overland flow and confluence

• Cliffs, wave-cut platforms, caves, arches, stacks, stumps and bay and headland coastlines

• Long profile, waterfalls, potholes, meanders, oxbow lakes and deltas

What are the main landforms associated with the work of the sea and wind in eroding, transporting and depositing?

• Waterfalls, potholes, meanders, oxbow lakes, deltas, levées and flood plains

• Cliffs, wave-cut platforms, caves, arches, stacks, stumps and bay and headland coastlines

• Crater, vent, magma chamber and epicentre

• Beaches, spits, coastal sand dunes and tropical storms

What is the purpose of a Stevenson Screen?

• To collect weather data

• To measure temperature and wind

• To observe types and amounts of cloud

• To record wind speed and direction

What are the characteristics of equatorial climate?

• Natural vegetation, soil, wildlife and climate

• Hot all year round, high precipitation, high cloud cover

• Latitude, pressure systems, winds, distance from the sea, altitude and ocean currents

• Convection and relief rainfall, temperature and rainfall characteristics

What are the characteristics of hot desert ecosystems?

• Natural vegetation, soil, wildlife and climate

• Convection and relief rainfall, temperature and rainfall characteristics

• Latitude, pressure systems, winds, distance from the sea, altitude and ocean currents

• Hot days and cold night, lower than 250 mm precipitation, sparse vegetation

What is the relationship between natural vegetation, soil, wildlife and climate known as?

• Ecosystem

• Climatic graphs

• Climate characteristics

• Deforestation

What are the effects of deforestation of tropical rainforest?

• loss of habitats, leaf litter and food supply

• Temperature and rainfall characteristics

• Types and amounts of cloud

• Convection and relief rainfall

What are the main features of earthquakes?

• Infiltration, throughflow, groundwater flow, evaporation, overland flow and confluence

• Width, depth, speed of flow, discharge and watershed

• Crater, vent, magma chamber and subduction zones

• Epicentre, focus, magnitude and plate movements