Average weather conditions of a given place over a long period of time usually 30-35 years. Factors Influencing Climate Latitude It influences temperature whereby low latitudes have high temperature and high latitudes have low temperature due to the angle at which the sun rays strike the earth and the distance travelled by the suns rays. […]
A photograph is an image of an object, person or scene recorded by a camera on a light sensitive film or paper. Types of Photographs 1. Ground Photographs -Taken from the ground. They are of 2 types: Ground Horizontals- taken with the camera at the same level as the object. They are of 2 types.
Map – representation of the whole or part of the earth’s surface drawn to scale. Shows outline of objects on the ground Drawn as if the drawer was above the ground It shows details Most of the features are indicated by symbols. Picture: image of a real object. Gives details in their visible shapes and
Process in which solid, liquid or gaseous materials are forced out of the interior of the earth into the earth’s crust or onto the earth’s surface. These materials are magma, lava, gases, dust, ash and cinder. Causes of Vulcanicity Magma under high temperature and pressure moving through lines of weakness or faults. When tectonic plates
Faulting is the cracking/fracturing of the brittle crustal rocks due to tectonic forces. Faults are fractures or cracks that develop in the crust. When tensional forces cause crustal rocks to stretch and fracture at the region of maximum tension. When compressional causes squeezing of crustal rocks to fracture at the areas where they are intensely
Process in which crustal rocks are distorted by compressional forces by being caused to bend upwards and downwards. It occurs on fairly young sedimentary rocks. Anticlines (upfolds)-parts of the earths surface which bend upwards when folding occurs. Synclines (down folds)-Parts of the earths surface which bend downwards when folding occurs. Crest-upper most part of Anticline.
