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How does volcanic activity affect climate change?

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  • Blocks light from reaching surface/being absorbed by greenhouse gases
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What is weather?

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Daily conditions of the atmosphere

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What is climate?

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Average weather over 30 years

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How does latitude impact climate?

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  • 90’ North to 90’ South
  • Concentrated sunlight at Equator, hotter
  • Dispersed sunlight at poles, colder
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How does altitude impact climate?

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  • Rain shadow effect
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How does the Gulf Stream impact climate?

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  • Ocean current from Gulf of Mexico
  • Warms mainly SW UK
  • Mild Winters
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Describe the climate of the UK.

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  • Temperate
  • Seasonal
  • Maritime
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What is a depression? What are the features?

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  • Cyclonic weather
  • Storms, rainy, wet, cloudy, windy, changeable
  • Low pressure, anticlockwise winds
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Depression Stage 1

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  • Cirrus clouds (high)
  • Warm front
  • Cold air
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Depression Stage 2

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  • Low cloud
  • Rain
  • Cold air
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Depression Stage 3

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  • Stratus clouds (high)

- Warm air

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Depression Stage 4

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  • Cumulus clouds (thick, low)
  • Heavy rain
  • Cold air
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Depression Stage 5

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  • Some low cloud
  • Clear sky
  • Cold air
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What is the evidence of climate change? (6)

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  • Changing CO2 levels
  • Ice cores
  • Tree rings
  • Changing migratory patterns
  • Changing sea levels
  • Temperature records
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What is the greenhouse effect?

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  • Heat enters atmosphere from Sun
  • Some reflected back, some reaches surface of Earth
  • Short-wave radiation absorbed
  • Long-wave radiation reflected
  • Greenhouse gases absorb this + reflect it back
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What is an anticyclone?

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  • High pressure, clockwise winds
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What does a summer anticyclone cause?

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  • Dry
  • Settled
  • Hot
  • Clear skies
  • Calm
  • Possible thunderstorms
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What does a winter anticyclone cause?

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  • Foggy
  • Frosty
  • Cold
  • Calm
  • Settled
  • Clear skies
  • Dry
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Summer Polar Maritime

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  • Cool
  • Wet
  • Heavy showers
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Winter Polar Maritime

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  • Cold
  • Thunder
  • Hail
  • Showers
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Summer Arctic

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  • Cool
  • Wet
  • Heavy showers
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Winter Arctic

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  • Cold
  • Wet
  • Snow
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Summer Polar Continental

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  • Hot
  • Dry
  • Sunny
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Winter Polar Continental

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  • Very cold
  • Dry
  • Snow
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Summer Tropical Continental

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  • Hot
  • Dry
  • Sunny
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Winter Tropical Continental

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  • Warm
  • Dry
  • Sunny
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Summer Tropical Maritime

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  • Warm
  • Cloudy
  • Rain
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Winter Tropical Maritime

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  • Mild
  • Cloudy
  • Rain
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Advantages of Coastal Windfarms

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  • Generates lots of energy
  • Offshore windspeeds quicker than onshore
  • Creates jobs (building+maintenance)
  • Don’t use water/emit gases
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Disadvantages of Coastal Windfarms

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  • Difficult to build/maintain
  • Very expensive
  • Easily damaged by storms
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Impacts of Swansea Tidal Lagoon

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  • Boost leisure + tourism
  • Disrupt fish migration
  • Sand dredging + silting issues
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Farming (Grazing + Fertilising) - Effects on Sand Dunes

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  • Manure/fertiliser adds nutrients
  • Animals eat vegetation
  • Insecticides/pesticides kill species
  • More stable, more organic matter, succession slowed
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Drainage - Effects on Sand Dunes

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  • Lowered water table, fewer slacks
  • Food limited in complexy
  • Water polluted
  • Succession limited, stabilisation improved
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Recreation (Walking + Golf) - Effects on Sand Dunes

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  • Erosion of topsoil
  • Short grass for golf
  • Water used for maintaining greens
  • Lack of nutrients, little decomposition
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Dredging - Effects on Sand Dunes

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  • Restricted supply of sand

- Limited succession, more likely stabilisation

36
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Name the 3 types of mobile dune.

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  • Embryo
  • Fore
  • Yellow
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What is dredging?

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When ships collect sand from the sea bed

38
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What are fixed dunes?

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  • Grey dunes
  • Most stable
  • Most vegetation (in slacks), darker sand
  • Heath/Woodland begins after
39
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What is a core zone?

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  • Protected area for biodiversity
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What is a buffer zone?

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  • Around Core

- Mostly wild land/agroforestry

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What is a corridor zone?

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  • Between zones

- Allows animal movement

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What is a multi-use zone?

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  • For human use

- Building, logging etc.

43
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Lake Chad - Shrinking

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  • Over-abstraction + overgrazing
  • Deforestation
  • Intensive farming (onions, tomatoes)
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Lake Chad - Impacts

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  • Spread of disease
  • Salinisation (harmful minerals deposited)
  • Drying of wetlands
  • Fewer fish, declined income for fishermen
  • Poverty (+extremist support) increased
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Lake Chad - Transaqua Project

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  • Transfer water from DRC (100bm3 per year)

- Create jobs + water security

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Great Green Wall - Effects

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  • Reduce desertification/soil erosion
  • Increase biodiversity
  • Provides shade for crops
  • Agroforestry for locals, medicinal plants
  • Increased fodder/wood availability
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What is a tariff?

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A tax on imports

48
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What is a trade bloc?

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Trading partnerships between countries

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What is a quota?

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Restrictions on number of imports

50
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What is a subsidy?

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Payments to farmers to lower consumer prices

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Tourism - Impacts

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  • Employment (unskilled, low-paid, long hours, seasonal)
  • Wealth gap increases
  • Sea gypsies (local people) displaced
  • Turtle (+ local species) harm
  • Workers separated from families, send money
  • Coral reefs destroyed by divers/boats
  • Pressure on services, more traffic/infrastructure
  • Temples removed/vandalised, crime rate increased
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NGO Projects - Oxfam

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  • Secure gender equality in India
  • Promote rights of vulnerable girls to education
  • Improve awareness of HIV/AIDS
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NGO Projects - WaterAid

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  • Provides access to water + sanitation
  • 240000 gained
  • Kalmandhai 100% sanitised slum
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NGO Projects - TrickleUp

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  • Help women reach economic self-sufficiency
  • 66% of participants diversified income
  • 50% used profits to invest in housing
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Fair Trade

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  • Stable payment to farmers
  • Investing in own business
  • Communities helped by profit-funded projects
  • Education (Pest-control training + Cocoa weighers/recorders)
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Regional Inequality - New Delhi

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  • English-speaking, highly-skilled workforce

- Attracts MNC investment (Honda, Yamaha)

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Regional Inequality - Kolkata

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  • Rapid economic growth since 2000

- IT and cars

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Regional Inequality - Mumbai

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  • Film industry generates wealth

- Financial, chemical, food industry jobs

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Regional Inequality - Chennai

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  • 30%of automotive industry in South
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Regional Inequality - Bangalore

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  • Largest exporters of software (+ Chennai)
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Regional Inequality - Impacts

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  • Brain Drain ( rural-urban migration)
  • Growth in homelessness/overcrowding
  • MNC investment
  • Rise of Naxism in West Bengal
  • Less developed areas
  • Disillusionment in youths
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Changing Birth Rates - Rising in Malawi

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  • Culture of having many children
  • Lack of contraception/family planning
  • Child labour
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Changing Birth Rates - Falling in India

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  • Children are expensive to raise
  • Women have careers, delaying marriage/children
  • Government birth control (sterilisation/planning)
  • Education
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Changing Death Rates - Rising in Malawi

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  • Dirty water leads to cholera/diarrhoea
  • Droughts lead to less water/crop failure
  • HIV/AIDS/Malaria epidemics
  • Civil War, malnourishment, child labour
  • Poor healthcare, many people per doctor
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Changing Death Rates - Falling in India

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  • Good healthcare, few people per doctor
  • Better education, lower infant mortality rates
  • Vaccinations + care for the elderly
  • People have enough to eat, less dangerous work
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Child Labour

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  • Children in poverty work for extra money
  • Making carpets/clothing, recycling, vending, farming
  • School fees too expensive, education undervalued
  • Dangerous jobs -> rising death rate
  • ILO advises government on working policies
  • Improve education access + social security
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Girl’s Education

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  • Survive longer, empowerment, awareness
  • Domestic role/marry early -> pointless
  • Poverty -> expensive school fees/child labour
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Girl’s Education - UNICEF

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  • Changing attitudes, improving quality

- Creating transitional schools

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Girl’s Education - IKEA

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  • Good brand image
  • Sweden has high level of equality
  • Want to help others

GCSE WJEC Geography (5 decks)

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