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Ablation - Answer The loss of ice and snow especially from a glacier through melting evaporation and sublimation Absolute humidity - Answer The mass of water vapour in a given volume of air Abstraction - Answer The extraction of water from rivers and boreholes for public water supply Abyssal plain - Answer The deepest part of the ocean covering vast areas of ocean floor submarine mountain chains and trenches interrupt the relatively flat plain Accumulation - A...

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Bangladesh - Answer - LIC in South Asia - occupies Ganges-Brahmaputra delta, which supports the highest rural population densities in the world - exposure to hazards high and increasing - ability to adapt to climate change limited by poverty Bangladesh - Answer - 60 million live in poverty - GDP per capita: $2364 - 142 on UN HDI Bangladesh: impacts of climate change - Answer - low and flat: 4-5m above seas level, and 10% 1m (20 million) - exposure to storm surge...

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give the definition of sovereignty? - Answer the absolute authority that independent states exercise in the government of the land and people in the territory give the definition of territorial integrity? - Answer a principle that the defined territory of state, over which has exclusive and legitimate control is inviolable, enshrined in the charter of the UN and is an important part of international law describe what the world political map shoes (4) - Answer -the world p...

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Carbon Sink - Answer a forest, ocean, or other natural environment viewed in terms of its ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Greenhouse gas - Answer a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation Open system (water cycle) - Answer System which has inputs, throughputs and outputs Closed system (water cycle) - Answer Continuously cycles around, nothing is lost or gained Evaporatiom - Answer Process by whi...

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Carbon Sink - Answer a forest, ocean, or other natural environment viewed in terms of its ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Greenhouse gas - Answer a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation Open system (water cycle) - Answer System which has inputs, throughputs and outputs Closed system (water cycle) - Answer Continuously cycles around, nothing is lost or gained Evaporatiom - Answer Process by whi...

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What factors form place identity? - Answer Physical geography Demography Socio-economic e.g. employment Cultural Political Built environment Lympstone, East Devon Intro - Answer Small settlement East bank of river exe estuary 15km south of Exeter Toxteth, Liverpool Intro - Answer 1.5km south of city centre Arrival of railway at lympstone - Answer 1861 Demographic of lympstone - Answer Top-heavy age structure (24.6% over 65) Ethnically homogenous ...

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How are waves created? - Answer By the action of the wind on the sea surface What is the energy of a wave determined by? - Answer - Wind velocity - Wind duration - Fetch What is the fetch? - Answer The distance the wind blows across the water What are the characteristics of a wave? - Answer - Crest (top of the wave) - Trough (a dip of the wave between two crests) - Wavelength (the space between the two crests) - Wave height - Wave orbit (waves have a circul...

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10.1 How and why has climate changed in the geological past? - Answer Key idea The Earth's climate is dynamic. Changes undergone in the Earth's climate - Answer The Earth's climate has undergone huge changes in the past 100 million years. These changes have been particularly rapid in the last 2.5 million years, known as the Quaternary period, with numerous transitions from cold to warm conditions. Just 20,000 years ago, ice sheets covered most of northwest Europe; today,...

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2.a. Facts about Ukraine - Answer - Part of the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991 - It is the 2nd largest country in Europe and sits between the EU and Russia, its capital is Kiev - Ukraine is a major producer of food, due to its extensive fertile plains, whilst also producing heavy manufacturing products due to large coal, iron ore and mineral deposits - Classed as a lower middle-income country by the World Bank, with a GDP per capita of US$3900 (less than 10% of the US GDP) 2...

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What is the definition of *place*? - Answer A place is a space that has been given meaning by an individual’s *lived experience*. Places are *multifaceted*, shaped by *shifting flows* and connections, with change over time. What is the definition of *space*? - Answer Exists between places and does not have the same meaning attached as a place does. It is a location that can be given a latitude and a longitude. What is a place profile? - Answer A description of a pla...

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What factors form place identity? - Answer Physical geography Demography Socio-economic e.g. employment Cultural Political Built environment Lympstone, East Devon Intro - Answer Small settlement East bank of river exe estuary 15km south of exeter Toxteth, Liverpool Intro - Answer 1.5km south of city centre Arrival of railway at lympstone - Answer 1861 Demographic of lympstone - Answer Top-heavy age structure (24.6% over 65) Ethnically homogenous ...

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Waves - Answer Wind creates friction across fetch. Wave energy increases with time distance Friction with the seabed causes the wave to slow down, as the crest stays at the same speed, it causes the wave to break. Coast - Answer A narrow zone where the land meets the sea. It is constantly changing due to the effects of land, marine, human and aeolian processes Constructive Wave - Answer Builds up the beach. They deposit the sediment. Low frequency. Beaches tend to be wi...

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Bar - Slapton Lee, Devon - Answer - 100m wide - may have been formed this way, however, doesn't seem to be a significantly dominant direction of longshore drift - no pattern in distribution of sediment size - may have been formed by a onshore movement of sediment Tombolo - Chesil beach, Dorest - Answer - 30km long - onshore migration of shingle originally produced a uniform distribution of sediment size - strong longshore currents have moved sediment of different sizes ...

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What are the 3 layers of the Earth? - Answer *Crust* Thinnest layer (varies from a few km thick up to 80km) Lighter elements present here (magnesium, silica, aluminum) *Mantle* The thickest layer (2900km thick) Made up of the lithosphere, the asthenosphere and the inner mantle *Outer Core* Liquid The Gutenberg discontinuity is the boundary between the mantle and the outer core *Inner Core* Solid Most dense layer (about 1200km thick) containing iron and nickel What 2 l...

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1a. Define 'Human rights'. - Answer Basic rights and freedoms inherent to all human beings, to which all people are entitled without discrimination. 1a. Define 'Human rights norms'. - Answer Established customary behavior based on moral principles and ways of living inculcated into the culture of a country or area over a long period of time. 1a. Define 'Intervention'. - Answer Actions of a state, group of states or international organizations in a foreig...

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How important is water to human life on Earth? - Answer Vital, animals for chemical reactions, plants for photosynthesis, clouds reflect 20% of solar radiation Uses of water for humans - Answer Respiration, metabolic reactions, bathing, recreation, domestic and industrial use Use of water for flora - Answer Photosynthesis, transpiration Uses of water for fauna - Answer Respiration, metabolic reactions, bathing How important is carbon to life on earth? - Answer...

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