Isostatic Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Detailed revision notes for the Coasts Topic of the AQA A-Level Geography Syllabus. The notes include case studies, necessary information and essay plan arguments. The format of the notes is as follows; 3.1.3.1 Coasts as natural systems 2 The Coastal System 2 Sediment cells 2 3.1.3.2 - Systems and natural processes 3 Sources of energy 3 High energy and low energy environments 6 Sediment sources, cells and budgets 7 Coastal sediment budgets 8 Geomorphological processes: weatherin...

Continental Ice Sheets - Glaciers formed in non-mountainous areas of continents Only 2 exist today: Greenland and Antarctica Ice Shelfs: Where they meet the sea Vary in thickness from hundreds of feet to two miles deep Crustal Depression - Enormous weight of ice sheets Isostatic adjustment, crust is rebounding where glacial ice existed Response to weight loss Depositional Glacial Landforms - All debris in the ice is eventually brought to the ablation zone and deposited Modes: Directed...

Continental Ice Sheets - Glaciers formed in non-mountainous areas of continents Only 2 exist today: Greenland and Antarctica Ice Shelfs: Where they meet the sea Vary in thickness from hundreds of feet to two miles deep Crustal Depression - Enormous weight of ice sheets Isostatic adjustment, crust is rebounding where glacial ice existed Response to weight loss Depositional Glacial Landforms - All debris in the ice is eventually brought to the ablation zone and deposited Modes: Directed...

Longest. In geologic time: - Eon Study of the origin, evolution,form, and spatial distribution of earths landforms: - Geomorphology Uppermost layer of earth: - Crust layer of earth between the crust and the core: - mantle Innermost layer of earth: - Core The crust and upper most part of the mantle refers to what sphere? - Lithosphere Beneath the lithosphere is a plastic layer known as the, - Asthenosphere A mineral must be: - Inorganic, definite chemical composition, solid. Land that ri...

Geologic Hazards Question and answers 100% correct 2023/2024Asthenosphere - correct answer Under the lithosphere, it is the weak upper mantle where isostatic adjustments are made, magma generated, and seismic waves are strongly attenuated Attenuation - correct answer A reduction in the amplitude of seismic waves produced by divergance, scattering, reflection, and absorption Avalanche - correct answer A large mass of snow, ice, rock, of mixtures of the above, falling, sliding, or ...

Littoral Zone - Answer Area between the highest sea level (storm waves, spring tides) and shallow coastal waters (where the base of the wave first encounters friction with the sea bed). Dynamic Equilibrium - Answer Where the inputs and outputs are balanced as changes are counteracted. Littoral/ Sediment Cells - Answer When coastline is divided into natural compartments that contains a complete cycle of sedimentation. Emergent Coast - Answer Where the coast is rising relative...

Why is additive manufacturing usually most cost effective for small production lots (as opposed to large production lots)? correct answersConventional manufacturing has the cost of tooling (i.e. molds, fixturing), but additive has no specialized tooling. Small production lots benefit from not needing this high fixed cost. On the other end, this specialized tooling can help produce a large amount of parts faster than AM, which brings the part cost down for large production lots. What are two s...

Geologic HazardsAsthenosphere - correct answer Under the lithosphere, it is the weak upper mantle where isostatic adjustments are made, magma generated, and seismic waves are strongly attenuated Attenuation - correct answer A reduction in the amplitude of seismic waves produced by divergance, scattering, reflection, and absorption Avalanche - correct answer A large mass of snow, ice, rock, of mixtures of the above, falling, sliding, or flowing very rapidly due to gravity Body-W...

EAPS 112 Chapter 17 Pre/Post Test Questions & Answers 2023/2024 Which condition would most likely prompt global cooling? - ANSWER-reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere Erosion by valley glaciers yields bowl-shaped depressions on mountainsides called ________ . - ANSWER-cirques Lake Bonneville was a large Pleistocene ________ lake. At the present time, all that remains of it is ________ . - ANSWER-pluvial; the Great Salt Lake How are continental glaciers and ice caps different? - ...

Barrier beaches CORRECT ANSWER Narrow and elongated beaches situated parallel to the shoreline Development of barrier beaches CORRECT ANSWER Usually formed as an extension of a spit, longshore drift moves sediment along coastline and when coast suddenly changes direction (e.g. across a river mouth) longshore drift continues to deposit material, resulting in the formation of a spit. When the spit joins two headlands, it becomes a bar/barrier beach. What forms behind a barrier beach? CORRECT...