PHYSICAL PROCESSES AND ENVIRONMENTS

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V-shaped valley Waterfalls Meanders Floodplain
Lag time Rising limb Recessional limb Peak
rainfall Peak flow
Prevailing winds N. Atlantic drift Latitude Relief
Biological Freeze thaw Exfoliation Chemical
Hydrographs
Hydro. cycle
River landscapes
RIVERS
WEATHERING
British climate
Attrition Abrasion Corrosion Hydraulic
action Saltation Traction etc
PHYSICAL PROCESSES AND ENVIRONMENTS
Processes
WEATHER AND CLIMATE
Tropical climate
COASTS
Depressions and anticyclones
Case study Holderness coast?
Processes
Same as rivers LSD
Env. problems
Landforms
ECOSYSTEMS
Erosional stumps, stacks, arches, caves, blow
holes. Depositional beaches, spits, sand dunes
Global warming Acid rain Drought
Amazon rainforest
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Case studies Asian tsunami Turkey San Fransisco
Destructive Constructive Conservative Collision
Predicting earthquakes and volcanoes
Plate boundaries
Amazon rainforest
Earthquakes
PLATE TECTONICS
FIRE
Dust bowl in USA
NATURAL HAZARDS
Volcanoes
Case studies Mnt. St. Helens Merapi
DROUGHT
Desertifcation in Sahel
TROPICAL STORMS
Sea gt 27C Between tropics Coriolis effect
Managing floods
FLOODING
Formation of storms
Case studies
Effects of flooding
Causes of flooding
Case studies Boscastle Bangladesh?
Hurricane Ivan Bangladesh cyclone 1991
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GNP Literacy Life expectancy Infant
mortality Human Dev. Index
Subsidies Quotas Set-a-side
Differences in upland and lowland farming
Location factors
Free trade vs Fairtrade
Common Agricultural Policy
PRIMARY - FARMING
TRADE
Measuring development
ECONOMIC SYSTEMS AND DEVELOPMENT
Heavy Light Footloose Greenfield Brownfield
Changing location of UK industry
DEVELOPMENT
Differing quality of life
SECONDARY INDUSTRY
Iron and steel industry Llanwern steelworks Lucky
Goldstar
TERTIARY - TOURISM
Investment programmes
UK case study S. Wales
Aid
Government assistance
S. Korea Japan
Advantages and disadvantages
Enterprise Zones Assisted areas Urban Development
Corporations
FARMAfrica Volta dam?
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Birth rate Death rate Natural increase
Sparsely Densely Case study Brazil
Case study Rio de Janeiro
Demographic Transition model
Population density
Problems and solutions of favelas
POPULATION PYRAMIDS
POPULATION DISTRIBUTION
Population change
LEDC urban areas
Case studies Chinas One child policy Education
in Kerala
POPULATION AND SETTLEMENT
Case study Winchcombe
Managing populations
CHANGING SETTLEMENTS
Counter-urbanisation suburbanised villages
MIGRATION
LANDUSE AND URBAN MODELS
Urban redevelopment
Push factors Pull factors
Reasons for migration
Traffic management
Burgess Hoyt Central Place theroy Remember
Brighton
Case studies
Case study Glasgow
Mexicans into California Plus one other
Case study Cambridge