Georgaphy Flashcards
Manager retreat.
Let the land behind flood on purpose.
Spit
Made by longshore drift and wind pushes it along and curves around.
Mudflats form behind it.
Hard engineering.
Made by people/man made structures and keep the beach as it is.
Groins stop long shore drift.
Seawalls.
Groins.
Rock armour.
Gaeleins.
Soft engineering.
Use nature.
Using sand or plants.
Beach replenishment.
Sand moves again causing it to have to keep being replenished.
Beach re profiling.
Sand dunes they don’t fall over due to marram grass and plants being in them.
Why is the demand for food changing in the uk?
Exotic food.
Get them imported.
More money the better food.
Seasonal food.
Summer strawberries fruit.
Winter no strawberries no fruit.
Organic food.
Grown with no pesticides.
What is a food mile?
Distance the food has travelled.
Amount of greenhouse gas produced causing Carbon footprint.
What is organic farming?
When the food does not have pesticides on.
What is agra business?
Agra business is making money from farming.
How does the demand for water vary across the uk?
The north and the west get loads of rain.
East and the south don’t get much.
Water pipes to transport water.
Why has the demand for water increased?
Kitchen appliances.
Population.
Crops.
What is ground water?
How is it being polluted?
Water under the ground.
Ground water will be polluted due to fertilisers and pesticides.
What is a water transfer scheme?
Move it from an area of surplus to an area of deficit.
Surplus lots.
Deficit not much there.
Khielda water transfer scheme.
How and why is the uk energy mix changing?
1990-coal then gone due to deindustrialision.
2014-renewable energy.
1990 no electricity and did not have the technology to do it.
How are we exploiting energy in the uk?
Fracking.
Drill a hole into the ground put a pipe into the grown then put high power water and chemicals into it crack means frack.
Trees would have been there or deforested the area.
People may have lived there.
Drilling powerfully earthquakes.
Fracking can go wrong oil spill and oil leaks.
Animals habitats destroyed there.
Economic impact.
Sell trade it across the country’s.
Environmental impacts.
Release co2.
Earthquakes.
What is water insecurity?
Lack of water.
Describe patterns of water.
China India Africa not have much.
How much the water has been used by people and the factories.
Why has the water demand increased?
More people and factories.
How does climate affect the water?
Evaporates.
Drought.
Hot climates water evaporates quicker.
How does geology affect water supply?
Impermeable rock-no water soaked by rocks goes straight the river.
Permeable rock-absorbed by the rocks.
Filter and clean water from the ground.
Grey water.
Pipes.
Grey water using used water.
Improve pipes(infrastructure).
Water
Chlorea
Typhoid
What is the the impact of water insecurity on food production and industrial output?
Factories use lots of water.
What is the the impact of water insecurity on food production and industrial output?
Factories use lots of water.
