gcse geography theme 2
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- theme 2
- depressions
- warm air meets cold air
- cause sequence of conditions
- air rising
- anticyclones
- clear skies
- dry weather
- air falling
- extreme UK weather
- raining more
- flooding
- temp. increasing
- droughts
- impacts
- peoples homes and lives
- restricted water use
- homes damaged
- business ruined
- agriculture
- crop failures
- rainfall=higher yield
- new climates=new crops
- health
- deaths
- types of deaths
- transport
- block roads
- high temps=buckled railways
- peoples homes and lives
- raining more
- global climate change: any change in weather over long time
- global warming
- evidence
- thermometer measurements
- melting ice sheets
- greenhouse gases
- evidence
- increased rainfall
- natural
- variations in solar output
- changes in earths orbit
- impacts
- economic
- farming
- predicting,reducing and rebuilding extreme weather events
- industries
- social
- death
- less food
- extreme events
- infectious disease spread in heat
- death
- environmental
- sea levels rise
- droughts
- species adapt
- political
- competition of water
- increased immigration and emigration
- pressure to find solutions
- economic
- responses
- kyoto protocol
- national
- transport
- taxation
- loacal
- congestion charges
- recycling
- conserving energy
- global warming
- tropical storms
- how it develops
- over warm water
- warm air rises, condenses giving energy
- impacts
- primary
- buildings
- rivers flood
- roads
- secondary
- homeless
- no clean water
- reducing
- prediciction
- planning
- building techniques
- education
- aid
- primary
- CS: hurricane Katrina, S/E USA
- how it develops
- droughts
- causes
- changes in atmospheric conditions
- annual rains fail
- high pressure blocks depressions
- changes in atmospheric conditions
- climatic hazards
- impacts
- primary
- dehydration
- vegetation dies
- secondary
- food shortage
- farms close
- primary
- causes
- ecosystems
- biotic + abiotic factors
- world ecosystems
- tropical rainforests
- 3 trees layers +shrub layer
- infertile land
- biome
- deforestation
- sustainable management
- selective logging
- replanting
- ecotourism
- protection laws
- sustainable management
- sustainable management
- selective logging
- replanting
- ecotourism
- protection laws
- CS: amazon
- deserts
- plant adaptation
- infertile soil
- deciduous forests
- seasons
- very fertile leaf fall
- 3 layers
- tropical rainforests
- CS: languard
- hydrological cycle
- drainage basins
- separated by watershed
- water runs off in to
- rocks
- permeable
- pervious
- granite/marble
- porous
- chalk/limestone
- pervious
- impermeable
- clay
- broken down by weathering
- mechanical
- freeze-thaw
- chemical
- carbonation
- biological
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- mechanical
- permeable
- transportation
- traction
- solution
- traction
- meanders
- river cliff
- slip-off slope
- caused by erosion and deposition
- deposition
- river drops eroded material
- slows down
- landforms
- flood plains
- leeves
- natural embankments
- deltas
- arcuate
- cuspate
- bird's foot
- deposition
- form ox-bow lakes
- river discharge
- vol. of water flowing
- coasts
- deposition
- landforms
- spits
- curved ends by waves
- bars
- spit joins 2 headlands together
- lagoon
- spit joins 2 headlands together
- bars
- spit joins 2 headlands together
- lagoon
- spit joins 2 headlands together
- shingle beaches
- spits
- constructive waves
- powerful swash
- weak backwash
- landforms
- deposition
- groundwater
- C.S: artesian basin
- depressions
- UK climate
- precipitation and temp. follows seasonal pattern
- why it varies
- latitude (N/S of equator)
- distance from sea
- wind (prevailing S/W)
- pressure
- low pressure
- high pressure
- altitude
- theme 2
- depressions
- warm air meets cold air
- cause sequence of conditions
- air rising
- anticyclones
- clear skies
- dry weather
- air falling
- extreme UK weather
- raining more
- flooding
- temp. increasing
- droughts
- impacts
- peoples homes and lives
- restricted water use
- homes damaged
- business ruined
- agriculture
- crop failures
- rainfall=higher yield
- new climates=new crops
- health
- deaths
- types of deaths
- transport
- block roads
- high temps=buckled railways
- peoples homes and lives
- raining more
- global climate change: any change in weather over long time
- global warming
- evidence
- thermometer measurements
- melting ice sheets
- greenhouse gases
- evidence
- increased rainfall
- natural
- variations in solar output
- changes in earths orbit
- impacts
- economic
- farming
- predicting,reducing and rebuilding extreme weather events
- industries
- social
- death
- less food
- extreme events
- infectious disease spread in heat
- death
- environmental
- sea levels rise
- droughts
- species adapt
- political
- competition of water
- increased immigration and emigration
- pressure to find solutions
- economic
- responses
- kyoto protocol
- national
- transport
- taxation
- loacal
- congestion charges
- recycling
- conserving energy
- global warming
- tropical storms
- how it develops
- over warm water
- warm air rises, condenses giving energy
- impacts
- primary
- buildings
- rivers flood
- roads
- secondary
- homeless
- no clean water
- reducing
- prediciction
- planning
- building techniques
- education
- aid
- primary
- CS: hurricane Katrina, S/E USA
- how it develops
- droughts
- causes
- changes in atmospheric conditions
- annual rains fail
- high pressure blocks depressions
- changes in atmospheric conditions
- climatic hazards
- impacts
- primary
- dehydration
- vegetation dies
- secondary
- food shortage
- farms close
- primary
- causes
- ecosystems
- biotic + abiotic factors
- world ecosystems
- tropical rainforests
- 3 trees layers +shrub layer
- infertile land
- biome
- deforestation
- CS: amazon
- deserts
- plant adaptation
- infertile soil
- deciduous forests
- seasons
- very fertile leaf fall
- 3 layers
- tropical rainforests
- CS: languard
- hydrological cycle
- drainage basins
- separated by watershed
- water runs off in to
- rocks
- permeable
- pervious
- granite/marble
- porous
- chalk/limestone
- pervious
- impermeable
- clay
- broken down by weathering
- mechanical
- freeze-thaw
- chemical
- carbonation
- biological
- Untitled
- mechanical
- permeable
- transportation
- traction
- solution
- traction
- meanders
- river cliff
- slip-off slope
- caused by erosion and deposition
- deposition
- river drops eroded material
- slows down
- landforms
- flood plains
- leeves
- natural embankments
- deltas
- arcuate
- cuspate
- bird's foot
- deposition
- form ox-bow lakes
- river discharge
- vol. of water flowing
- coasts
- deposition
- landforms
- spits
- curved ends by waves
- shingle beaches
- spits
- constructive waves
- powerful swash
- weak backwash
- landforms
- deposition
- groundwater
- C.S: artesian basin
- depressions
- erosion
- vertical
- lateral
- processes
- hydraulic action
- abrasion
- attrition
- solution
- landforms
- waterfalls and gorges
- produce interlocking spurs
- saltation
- suspension
- suspension
- flooding
- physical factors
- snowmelt
- rainfall
- human factors
- deforestation
- construction
- management
- har engineering
- soft engineering
- C.S: Tewkesbury floods
- physical factors
- erosion
- wave erosion
- hydraulic power
- abrasion
- attrition
- solution
- attrition
- abrasion
- destructive waves
- high wind
- high fetch
- hydraulic power
- landforms
- cliffs retreat
- wave-cut notch
- mass movements
- headlands and bays
- headlands
- cracks
- cave
- arch
- stack
- stump
- headlands
- coves
- parallel bands of hard and soft rock
- cliffs retreat
- wave erosion
- and transportation : LSD
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