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Physical Landscapes Flashcards

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Landscape

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The visible features of an area of land

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Uplands

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Land that is hilly or mountainous

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Foreground

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The front part of a view

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Land use

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What the land is used for.
Eg farming or industry

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Physical layer

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Rock type and how landscape processes have sculpted the landscape

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Biological layer

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Soil plants trees etc.

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Human layer

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Settlements communications farming etc.

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Geology

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The study of rocks beneath our feet

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Rock cycle

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Describes how rocks are constantly being changed from one type to another

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Limestone pavement

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Limestone surface separated by deep cracks

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Gryke

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A deep crack in the surface of something

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Clints

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Limestone blocks separated by deep cracks

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Weathering

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The process that takes place as rocks and other parts of the geosphere are broken down into smaller pieces.

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Erosion

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The movement of weathered rocks by natural forces

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Mechanical weathering

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The process of breaking big rocks into little ones

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Chemical weathering

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Changes of shape or colour caused by various substances

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Lowlands

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Flat land not much higher than sea level

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Igneous

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A type of rock formed on the Earth’s surface or deep underground by the cooling of molten rock

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Sedimentary

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A type of rich formed by the deposition of sediment

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Metamorphic

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A type of rock that has undergone change due to intense heat and/or pressure

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hydraulic action

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the power of the water breaking rocks apart

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abrasion

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rocks and pebbles grind across the sand in a sandpaper fashion

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attrition

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rocks bump against each other and break apart or become more rounded

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solution

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water dissolving rocks

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freeze-thaw weathering

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where water continually freezes in the cracks of rock, making them bigger, and eventually breaks the rock apart.

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corrie

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a round hollow made in the side of a mountain by a glacier

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glacial erosion

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glaciers moving down slopes erode and break apart the rocks and land on the slope

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scree

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small loose stones created by freeze thaw weathering

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glacier

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a river of ice, usually occupying a valley

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ice sheet

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a large layer of ice several kilometres thick

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