Year 7 Geography: Liveability, Plate Boundaries, and Volcanoes

Vocabulary flashcards reviewing core concepts in Year 7 Geography, covering urban liveability, place characteristics, plate tectonic boundaries, and volcanic features.

Liveability

A measure of how well a place meets the needs of its residents.

Stability

One of the five Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) categories used to assess the liveability of a city.

Vienna

The city ranked first in the world on the 2026 liveability infographic.

Push Factor

A negative condition that causes someone to leave their current location, such as a lack of jobs.

Pull Factor

A positive condition or attraction that draws someone to live in a new destination, such as better job opportunities elsewhere.

Sense of Place

A person's emotional and psychological connection to a location, shaped most directly by memories, culture, and a feeling of belonging.

Infrastructure

The basic physical systems and services of a place, which can be directly improved by building reliable public transport.

Lithosphere

The rigid outer layer of the Earth that is broken into tectonic plates.

Tectonic Plate

A large, moving slab of the Earth's broken lithosphere.

Constructive Boundary

A plate boundary where tectonic plates move apart from each other.

Destructive Boundary

A convergent plate boundary where tectonic plates collide or move toward each other, commonly involving subduction.

Conservative Boundary

A plate boundary where tectonic plates slide past each other without creating or destroying crust.

Subduction

A geological process occurring at destructive boundaries where one tectonic plate is forced down beneath another, leading to magma rising and volcano formation.

Magma

Molten rock located beneath the surface of the Earth.

Lava

Molten rock that has erupted onto the Earth's surface.

Pyroclastic Flow

A fast-moving, dangerous volcanic hazard consisting of a mixture of hot gas, ash, and rock.

Magma Chamber

A large pool or underground compartment beneath a volcano where molten rock accumulates.

Main Vent

The primary central conduit or pipe through which magma ascends to erupt from a volcano.

Crater

The circular depression located around the central vent at the top of a volcano.

Hotspot

A volcanic area where magma wells upward through the crust independently of traditional plate boundaries.