Flashcards and recall.

Try this with Geography

1. Write one prompt per card. Use definitions, explanations or examples from your current topic.
2. Answer aloud before turning the card. Split a card if it asks for several unrelated facts.
3. Set aside missed cards and revisit them in a later session.

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Recall topics

• Define land cover and distinguish it from land use.
• Identify spatial distribution of tropical rainforests globally.
• Describe boreal forests spatial extent and sustaining climate.
• Explain albedo and its relationship to Earth's energy balance.
• Define positive feedback loop with climate/land cover example.
• Define negative feedback loop in land cover systems.
• Identify four major stores in the carbon cycle.
• Describe two key carbon fluxes between atmosphere and biosphere.
• Identify four major nitrogen cycle stores.
• Explain nitrogen fixation and name driving processes/organisms.
• Define enhanced greenhouse mechanism vs natural greenhouse effect.
• List three anthropogenic greenhouse gases and primary sources.
• Identify deforestation as land cover change driver and carbon impact.
• Explain pastoralism driving land cover change with named region.
• Describe agriculture driving land cover change with example.
• Explain urbanisation as land cover change driver and spatial pattern.
• Identify mining as land cover change driver and landscape impact.
• Describe climate change impacts on forests identifying two changes.
• Explain climate change impacts on ice sheets/glaciers and feedback.
• Describe climate change impacts on wetland ecosystems.
• Explain climate change impacts on coasts and name adaptation.
• Define reforestation and its role as climate mitigation.
• Explain soil carbon sequestration and agricultural management.
• Identify renewables as climate mitigation explaining fossil fuel advantage.
• Explain albedo management as climate mitigation with examples.
• Define geomorphological processes and three relevant to land cover.
• Describe hydrological cycle and land cover change disruption.
• Explain ecological processes supporting forest biodiversity.
• Describe First Nations Country connection and land management.
• Identify fieldwork data collection methods for land cover study.
• Define dependency ratio and state the formula.
• Interpret a dependency ratio of 52 for a country.
• Describe the shape and demographic interpretation of a population pyramid for an expanding (triangular) structure.
• Describe the shape and demographic interpretation of a population pyramid for a stationary (rectangular) structure.
• Describe the shape and demographic interpretation of a population pyramid for a contracting (urn/bulging) structure.
• State the five stages of the demographic transition model (DTM) and their key features.
• Name and describe country examples for Stage 2 of the demographic transition model.
• Name and describe country examples for Stage 4 of the demographic transition model.
• Define push factor in voluntary migration.
• Define pull factor in voluntary migration.