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DLC Year 9 Geography
Term 1 Exam Definitions Revision
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Environment | The surroundings or conditions on which a person, animal or plant lives or operates. |
| Ecosystem | A community of interacting plants, animals and their physical surroundings. |
| Biome | A large area on earth defined by the climate, vegetation and animals that inhabit the area. |
| Climate | The average type of weather, including seasonal change over a long period of time |
| Biodiversity | Biodiversity is the variety of all life forms on earth, it is a constant changing balance between all living things on earth. |
| Biosphere | Consists of all the living things on earth. |
| Geosphere | The earth all non living natural things including rocks,mountains and soil. |
| Hydrosphere | The earth's contents of water including precipitation. |
| Agriculture | The science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products |
| Subsistence Farming | The practice of growing crops and raising livestock sufficient only for one's own use, without any surplus for trade. |
| Slash and Burn | A method of agriculture in which existing vegetation is cut down and burned off before new seeds are sown, typically used as a method for clearing forest land for farming. |
| Food Security | The state of having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food. |
| Crop Yield | The measure of the yield of a crop per unit area of land cultivation, and the seed generation of the plant |
| Weather | The state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time |
| Under Nourishment | Not getting enough food or not getting enough healthy food for good health and growth |
| Malnourishment | Lack of proper nutrition, caused by not having enough to eat, not eating enough of the right things, or being unable to use the food that one does eat |
| Tundra | A vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen |
| Subsoil | The soil lying immediately under the surface soil |
| Producers | A person, company, or country that makes, grows, or supplies goods or commodities for sale |
| Consumers | A person who purchases goods and services for personal use |
| Terracing | A piece of sloped plane that has been cut into a series of successively receding flat surfaces or platforms, which resemble steps, for the purposes of more effective farming |
| Aquatic | Consisting of, relating to, or being in water |
| Terrestrial | Biology Living or growing on land or on or in the ground |
| Savanna | A grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees |
| Rainforest | The Tropical Rainforest is a forest occurring in tropical areas of heavy rainfall. It is abundant with many species of wildlife and vegetation |
| Desert | A landscape form that receives very little precipitation |
| Alpine | An ecosystem that doesn't contain trees due to its high altitude or the area where a mountain's snow line begins |
| Wetlands | Land consisting of marshes or swamps; saturated land |
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