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58 Cards in this Set
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drainage basin
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area of land drained by a river or tributaries
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vegatation
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trees, shrubs and plants
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volcanic bomb
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lava exploded into the air which turns solid as it falls
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urban
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town or a city
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tsunami
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a sea wve caused by a volcanic eruptions
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suburb
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edge of a city
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stack
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a pillar of rock which stands in the sea
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source
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the start of a river
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spit
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a beach in acurve caused by decosition usally in a shelterd area
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situation
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the location of a settelment in relation to its surrondings
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site
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the exact location of a settelment
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sedementary rock
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formed from small particals from the sea
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secondary industray
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manufacturing
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rural
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countryside
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relief
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the hight and shape of the land
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quaternary industry
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knowledge bassed area
e.g. IT developer, sincetist |
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pyroclastic flow
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a cloud of gas and ash ejected from a volcano
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primary industry
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physical things
e.g. farming, mining |
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precipitaition
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rain,snow, sleet or hail
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permable
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allows water to flow through it
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nucleated
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clustered houses togther
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MEDC
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more economiclay developed countries
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meander
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bend in a river
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mantle
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the semi-solid mass of rock beneth the earths crust
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magma
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molten rock BELOW THE EARTHS SURFICE
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longshore drift
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the movement of sand and pebbels along a beach
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linar
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houses in a line
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joint
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a crack in the rock
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headland
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land which juts out into the sea
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habitat
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where somthing lives
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globalisation
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the ways in which somthing spreeds around the world
e.g. Companies |
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geothermal energy
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heat and electricity prouduced from under ground water
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function
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activietes of a settelment
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floodplain
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the flat area either side of a river that floods regulary
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evaporate
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liquid to a gas
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erosion
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wearing away of the land
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tertiary industray
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the survice industray
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weathering
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the breakdown of rocks by weather,plants and animals
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equator
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the imaginary line running through the middel of the earth (the hotteset points)
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economic activity
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a way people make a living
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drought
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a long period of time without water
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dormant
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inactive (volcano)
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destructive boundary
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where the oceanic plate slides under a continental plate
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depression
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an area of low air pressure
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dam
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a wall bulit to block water
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crust
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the solid skin of rock around the earths surface
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core
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the center of the earth
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contor line
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line on a OS map showing the height above sea level of that area of land
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constructive boundary
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two plates move apart from each other
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conservative boundary
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where two plates slide past each other
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condense
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gas to a liquid
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collision boundary
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two continental plates collide
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climate
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the average temperatture over many years
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beach
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material which the sea deposits on the coast
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bay
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an area of sea between two head lands
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atmosphere
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the layer of air around the earth
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air pressure
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the weight of the air
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air mass
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a very large body of air
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