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What are features?
The vegetation that has evolved in an area over time.
A graph using picture symbols to represent statistical info.
The tangible elements of a place or environment.
Degrees east or west of Greenwich.
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What is a food web?
When people have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food
Issues and problems arising from interactions between people
A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
Using the land to produce food crops.
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What is climate?
Systems for storing, managing, analysing and portraying data
When a hazard results in extensive damage.
People belonging to or identifying with a nationality.
Average types of weather experienced by a place or region.
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What is a biome?
A major terrestrial vegetation community eg tropical forest
Fuel produced using plant material eg ethanol, biogas.
Distance from the equator measured in degrees north or south
The quality of life of a population.
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What is an environment?
Degradation of the health of land resources.
The quality of life of a population.
The living and non-living elements of the Earth.
Cities with a population greater than 10 million.
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What is development?
Navigation system that provide location and time information
The voluntary or forced movement of people between countries
Changes that improve the wellbeing of people such as social.
Hazard events originating in the lithosphere
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What is agriculture?
A compass point measured in degrees from 0 to 360.
The direction a slope faces.
The science or practice of farming.
A map showing property boundaries.
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What is a stakeholder?
Original materials collected by someone
The steepness of a slope.
People that are affected by a decision they have interest in
People's assessment of places and environments.
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What is an ecosystem?
Processes of an ecosystem that supports human life.
The tangible elements of a place or environment.
The location and arrangement of particular phenomena.
Community of interacting organisms and their environment.
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What is topography?
The relief features or surface configuration of an area.
Lack of sufficient available water resources to meet demand.
Statistical and other methods used to analyse data.
People's assessment of places and environments.
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What is food security?
The vegetation that has evolved in an area over time
Using the land to produce food crops
A major terrestrial vegetation community
When people have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food
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What is biodiversity?
Variety of living organisms and the environments they form.
Lines on a map that indicate altitude.
Tangible and intangible elements of a place or environment.
The steepness of a slope.
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What is sustainability?
Quality of not being harmful to the environment.
The relief and configuration of a landscape.
Location relative to other places.
A graph which plots the relationship between two variables.
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What is biofuel?
Fuel produced using plant material eg ethanol, biogas.
The number of people in an area of land.
The condition of the atmosphere at a point in time.
A graph which plots the relationship between two variables.
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What is ground water?
The water located beneath Earth's surface.
Forms of water falling from the atmosphere
The area drained by a river or water body.
The lack of sufficient available water resources
