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| What does SPICESS stand for? | Space Place Interconnection Change Environment Sustainability Scale |
| What are the 7 types of Landscapes? | Mountain L/S Coastal L/S Riverene L/S Desert L/S Karst L/S Tropical rainforest Built L/S |
| What are the 4 or 5 types of Values? | Cultural Value Aesthetic Value Economic Value Spiritual Value Competing Value |
| What does BOLTSS stand for? | Border Orientation Legend Title Scale Source |
| What are the 3 types of Scales? | Written scale line scale ratio |
| What does space mean in SPICESS? | location, distribution and organisation of a certain area and how it is Utilised |
| What does Place mean in SPICESS? | a part of the earth's surface that is identified and/or gives meaning to/by people. Can be natural or man made |
| What does Interconnection mean in SPICESS? | links and co-existence between humans and the natural world in places and spaces |
| What does Change mean in SPICESS? | exploring changes to the earth's environment at different scales. Can be natural or man-made. |
| What does Environment mean in SPICESS? | The elements in spaces that are natural, man-made or both |
| What does Sustainability mean in SPICESS? | ongoing ability for the earth to maintain life |
| What does Scale mean in SPICESS? | Size of the distance Local Regional National International Global (Life, Right, now, is, great) |
| What is a Mountain Landscape? | Formed by tectonic plates pushing together. Can be on their own, grouped in ranges or in ridges |
| What is a Coastal Landscape? | Where land meets the sea, shaped by wind or waves eroding or constructing the natural environment. Beaches, dunes, bays, cliffs, platforms, spits and lagoons |
| What is a Riverene Landscape? | Formed by the natural movement of water. Could also be a network of rivers and the surrounding land. Good farming land because land is rich and fertile. |
| What is a desert Landscape? | A place that gets no more than 25mm of rain per year. Hot deserts along the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Cold deserts closer to the poles. |
| What is a Karst Landscape? | Formed when easily dissolvable bedrock is worn away by slightly acidic water. They form unique features such as caves, stalactites, springs and sinkholes. They are extremely unstable areas of land. |
| What is a Tropical rainforest? | Lush forest along the equator. Lots of sunlight and rainfall. Vegetation grows rapidly. 50-70% of all species on earth are found here. Cover 6% of the earth |
| What is a Built Landscape? | Created by humans. Provedes evidence of human settelment and occupation of an environment. Often results in damage or destruction of natural landscapes. Often incorporates some natural geographical feature. |
| What is Cultural Value? | Importance of landforms expressed by people through creative means. |
| What is Aesthetic Value? | Linked to its beauty and uniqueness, it is always a personal connection to a place and may give a sense of freedom, stability and wellbeing. |
| What is Economic Value? | a measurement of how financially important landscapes and landforms are. |
| What is Spiritual Value? | Landforms of spiritual, religious or mythological significance |
| What is Competing Value? | Valued by different people for different reasons. |
| What is a Border of a map? | outline or box is drawn around the map |
| What is the orientation of a map? | N, S, E, W, an indication of direction, usually shown with a north arrow or compass rose |
| What is the Legend of a map? | an explanation of the symbols, colours and patterns on a map |
| What is the Title of a map? | a heading that describes the map and what it is showing |
| What is the scale of a map? | a way of indicating what distances on the map represent in real life |
| What is the source of a map? | Where the information used to create the map came from. |
| What is Mt Vesuvius? | one of the worlds most dangerous volcanos, most commonly known for covering Pompeii. |
| What is a landslide? | Any large-scale movement of soil, mud, rocks and snow carried by the force of gravity down a hill. |
| What do large, rapid landslides have the potential to do? | Destroy towns, roads and bridges, block rivers and take human lives. |
| What are the 4 types of Landslides? | Soil Creep Slumping Mudslides Avalanches |
| What is a Soil creep landslide? | The gradual movement of soil, rocks and earth down a gentle slope. It is the slowest moving landslide and can take place over many years. |
| What is a Slumping Landslide? | movement of larger sections of soil and rocks down a steep, curved slope. Usually triggered by earthquakes, excessive rain, freezing or thawing of land. |
| What is a Mudlslide? | triggered by heavy rain, quick thawing earth, earthquakes or volcanic activity. |
| What is an Avalanche? | The rapid movement of snow down steep mountain slopes. Fastest moving landslides. Triggered by the natural movement of the earth or human movement. |
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