GCSE EDEXCEL B GEOGRAPHY PAPER EXAM
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Carbon Dating - Answer - Uses radioactive testing to find the age of rocks which
contained living material.
Strata - Answer - Distinctive horizontal layers of rock.
Fault scarp - Answer - A small step or offset on the ground surface where one side of a
fault has moved vertically with respect to the other.
Tees-Exe line - Answer - Roughly divides the island of the UK into lowland and upland
regions.
Granite - Answer - Formed from magma cooling deep underground.
Basalt - Answer - Formed from lavas rich in metals.
Chalk - Answer - A purer, younger form of limestone.
Carboniferous limestone - Answer - Deposited rocks that were formed between 363 and
325 million years ago.
Clay - Answer - Formed from muds deposited by rivers or at sea.
Sandstone - Answer - Formed from sand grains compacted together.
Millstone grit - Answer - Sandstone which has been firmly cemented and compacted
Slate - Answer - Formed from heated kids or shale.
Schist - Answer - Formed from partially melted then solidified slate.
Marble - Answer - Formed from heated limestone.
Alluvium - Answer - A deposit of clay, silt, sand, and gravel left by flowing streams in a
river valley or delta, typically producing fertile soil.
Metamorphic rock - Answer - rock that has been changed by heat and pressure
Igneous rock - Answer - rock that forms when magma cools and solidifies
, Sedimentary rock - Answer - a rock that forms from compressed or cemented layers of
sediment
Misfits - Answer - A river that is either too large or too small to have eroded the valley or
cave passage in which it flows.
Undulating - Answer - Gently rolling hills.
Anticline - Answer - A fold in rock that bends upward into an arch.
Scarp and vale topography - Answer - Erosion which has left alternate strata of more
and less resistant rock forms a landscape known as scarp and vale topography
Enscarpment - Answer - A steep cliff or slope made of rocks such as CHALK, between
a higher and lower land surface
Dip slope - Answer - A gentle slope following the angle of rock *strata, found behind
escarpments.
Till - Answer - The sands and clays deposited directly by a glacier.
Hard rock coast - Answer - A coastal region composed of resistant materials.
Soft rock coast - Answer - A coastal area made up of easily eroded materials.
Discordant coastline - Answer - Layers of rock are perpendicular to the direction of the
coastline.
Concordant coastline - Answer - Layers of rock are parallel to the direction of the
coastline.
Joints - Answer - Small, usually vertical, cracks found in rocks.
Faults - Answer - Larger cracks caused by past tectonic movements where rocks have
moved.
Fetch - Answer - The distance that the wind has traveled across the sea.
Prevailing winds - Answer - Winds that blow in the same direction over large areas of
Earth.
Swash - Answer - The forward movement of a wave up a beach.
Constructive waves - Answer - Waves that carry and deposit sand and other materials,
BUILDING a beach.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS VERIFIED 100%
CORRECT!!
Carbon Dating - Answer - Uses radioactive testing to find the age of rocks which
contained living material.
Strata - Answer - Distinctive horizontal layers of rock.
Fault scarp - Answer - A small step or offset on the ground surface where one side of a
fault has moved vertically with respect to the other.
Tees-Exe line - Answer - Roughly divides the island of the UK into lowland and upland
regions.
Granite - Answer - Formed from magma cooling deep underground.
Basalt - Answer - Formed from lavas rich in metals.
Chalk - Answer - A purer, younger form of limestone.
Carboniferous limestone - Answer - Deposited rocks that were formed between 363 and
325 million years ago.
Clay - Answer - Formed from muds deposited by rivers or at sea.
Sandstone - Answer - Formed from sand grains compacted together.
Millstone grit - Answer - Sandstone which has been firmly cemented and compacted
Slate - Answer - Formed from heated kids or shale.
Schist - Answer - Formed from partially melted then solidified slate.
Marble - Answer - Formed from heated limestone.
Alluvium - Answer - A deposit of clay, silt, sand, and gravel left by flowing streams in a
river valley or delta, typically producing fertile soil.
Metamorphic rock - Answer - rock that has been changed by heat and pressure
Igneous rock - Answer - rock that forms when magma cools and solidifies
, Sedimentary rock - Answer - a rock that forms from compressed or cemented layers of
sediment
Misfits - Answer - A river that is either too large or too small to have eroded the valley or
cave passage in which it flows.
Undulating - Answer - Gently rolling hills.
Anticline - Answer - A fold in rock that bends upward into an arch.
Scarp and vale topography - Answer - Erosion which has left alternate strata of more
and less resistant rock forms a landscape known as scarp and vale topography
Enscarpment - Answer - A steep cliff or slope made of rocks such as CHALK, between
a higher and lower land surface
Dip slope - Answer - A gentle slope following the angle of rock *strata, found behind
escarpments.
Till - Answer - The sands and clays deposited directly by a glacier.
Hard rock coast - Answer - A coastal region composed of resistant materials.
Soft rock coast - Answer - A coastal area made up of easily eroded materials.
Discordant coastline - Answer - Layers of rock are perpendicular to the direction of the
coastline.
Concordant coastline - Answer - Layers of rock are parallel to the direction of the
coastline.
Joints - Answer - Small, usually vertical, cracks found in rocks.
Faults - Answer - Larger cracks caused by past tectonic movements where rocks have
moved.
Fetch - Answer - The distance that the wind has traveled across the sea.
Prevailing winds - Answer - Winds that blow in the same direction over large areas of
Earth.
Swash - Answer - The forward movement of a wave up a beach.
Constructive waves - Answer - Waves that carry and deposit sand and other materials,
BUILDING a beach.
