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Keywords for geo Flashcards

1
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Coastline

A

Where land meets water

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S wash

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-movement of water up

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Backwash

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Movement of warter back

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Fetch

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The length of water the wind blows over

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Discordant coastline

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A coastline with 2 types of rocks ) setting eroded at different times.

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Spits

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Area going outfrom coastline, left by long shoredrift.

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7
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Bar

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Formed when a spit connects to A headland

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8
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Tombolo

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When spits connect to an island

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Bay

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A section of coastline ret.reating) area of soft rock

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Beach

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Sand dropped by deposition along coast.

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Wave refraction

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Where waves bend. First attracted to high energy as moving further they lose it..

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Cliff retreat

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The sea uses abrasion and hydraulic action to create a wave cut notch. Wearing away the previous cliff

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13
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Soft engineering

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Natural materials to stop coastadamagel

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14
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Hard engineering

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Man made, expensive yet lasting coastal protection

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15
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Urbanisation

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Population of people living in urban life increasing

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Natural increase

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Birth rate getting higher than death rate

17
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Migration

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Movement

18
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Push factor vs pull factor

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Pull factor attracts you push factor pushes you away

19
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2 causes of urbanisation

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Migration and natural increase

20
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Emancipation of women

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Improved status and education for women

21
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Agriculture

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Changes in farming practice,increase in machinery

22
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Contraception

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Increase in family planning causing people to have less kids

23
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What did improved health do?

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Decrease birth rate,people having less kids

24
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Population pyramid

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Type of bar graph,showing proportion of people in different age groups

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