KQ3 ELSS

What are the 3 causes of land use change specifically mentioned in the specification?

• Urbanisation

  Farming

  Forestry

• Fossil fuel combustion

  Urbanisation

  Deforestation

• Urbanisation

  Fossil fuel combustion

  Farming

Match these water cycle flows to the correct land use change cause

• Faster lag time

• Urbanisation

• Higher interception

• Forestry

• Irrigation

• Farming

In crop farming, ploughing ​ (a)   evaporation. If in ploughing, ​ (b)   are created on a downward slope, run-off and ​ (c)   are accelerated. Furthermore, if heavy machinery is used, this ​ (d)   the soil, slowing ​ (e)   and increasing run-off risk.

• increases
• decreases
• furrows
• soil erosion
• compacts
• infiltration
• percolation

Harvesting of crops occurs after decomposition has occurred.

• True

• False

Slash and burn is beneficial to the biosphere

• Short term

• Long term

• Not at all

Groundwater levels in London in the 1960s dropped how many meters below sea level due to abstraction?

In the 1960s, groundwater levels in London dropped by how many meters below sea level?

Label the diagram

a

b

c

d

e

Recharge areas

Permeable rock

Impermeable rock

Recharge area

Syncline structure

Rank the countries from largest to smallest CO2 emitters

• USA

• India

• Russia

• China

• Japan

What is the term that refers to the changing shape of the Earth's orbit around the sun?

• Goldilocks Zone

• Elliptical orbit

• Milankovitch cycles

• Solar cycles