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GCSE AQA Geography Physical landscapes Summary

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In this document you will find everything you need to know about Physical landscapes. It will explain: waterfalls, gorges, formation of Levees, meanders and Ox-bow lakes, floodplains and levees, flooding, river processes, stages of a river, managing floods, deposition, waves, weathering, mass movement, longshore drift, spits and bars, sand dunes, headlands and bays, cliffs and wave cut platforms, hard and soft engineering. It will also provide explanations of the case studies: Swanage, Medmerry, Lyme Regis, high force waterfalls like the River Tees and Banbury

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