extra Flashcards
Why has employment of women grown?
Birth rate decreasing, population growth, gender equality movmenets made it easier for them to find work.
How is globalisation affecting secondary work?
Increase in high end manufacturing as low end moved offshore, reduction in jobs as off shore is cheaper labour so more and increase in TNC’s in englandlike Honda.
Economic decline causing floods.
Less money spend so less protection
Snow up.
Okay.
What is lowland area like?
Warm and dry.
What is upland area like?
Cold, wetter as clouds forced up so fhhe condense and rainfall.
Small streams that are at deltas?
Distributaries.
What is a tributary?
A river flowing into a larger river.
What is an estuary?
The mouth of river.
What is a confluence?
When river meets bigger river.
Tombolas.
islands off coast connected.
What are scree slopes?
Pieces of angular rock pieces on a slope formed by freeze-thaw weathering.
What does steep=?
Destructive, steep beaches.
Percolation?
Soil to rock.
Helicoidal flow?
cork-screw-like flow of water in a meander.
Bay.
Swanage bay.
Cove.
Lulworth cove.
Scarp and vale?
The uplift of rock has created features such as fault scarps where movement has resulted in layers of rock at an angle and higher up than others.
Gabions.
Cages of boulders built into a cliff face, the small rocks within the cages help absorb wave energy.
Rock armour.
absorbs wave energy.