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Decks in this class (27)

G - definitions
0  cards
R - Case Study - River Quaggy
0  cards
G - Types of Cold Environment
What are the 3 main reasons envir...,
High latitude why does this make ...,
High altitude why does this make ...
10  cards
G - Glacial system
What are the inputs of a glacial ...,
What are the stores in a glacier ...,
What are the outputs in a glacier...
19  cards
G - Glacial processes
0  cards
G - Glacial Landforms
How do glaciers create basins,
Name as many glacial erosion land...,
What is an arete
24  cards
G - Fluvioglacial processes
What are they ways meltwater travels,
Name the erosion processes by mel...,
What is hydraulic action
12  cards
G - Fluvioglacial landforms
What is an outwash plain,
What is the material of an outwas...,
What are kettle holes and how are...
15  cards
G - Periglacial processes
0  cards
G - Periglacial landforms
0  cards
G - Tundra Areas
0  cards
G - Future of Antarctica
0  cards
G - Glacial movement
What are the types of ice movement,
What is the definition of basal s...,
What is the definition of interna...
11  cards
R - Definitions
Abrasion,
Antecedent rainfall,
Attrition
62  cards
R - Hydrological Cycle
What is the hydrological cycle,
What type of system is the global...,
What type of system is a drainage...
33  cards
R - River Discharge (Factors affecting and hydrographs)
What is river discharge,
What is river discharge affected by,
What do hydrographs do
18  cards
R - The long profile/River processes
0  cards
R - Valley profiles / txtb: Long profile and channel characteristics
0  cards
R - Changing channel characteristics
0  cards
R - Landforms (fluvial erosion and deposition)
0  cards
R - Rejuvination
What is rejuvenation,
What are the causes of rejuvenati...,
What are the two types of sea lev...
10  cards
R - Magnitude - frequency analysis of flood risk
0  cards
R - Causes of flooding
What are the main causes of flooding,
Explain how prolonged rainfall ca...,
Explain how heavy rainfall causes...
15  cards
R - Impacts of flooding
What are the social impacts of fl...,
What are the economic impacts of ...,
What are the negative environment...
5  cards
R - Flood management strategies
Why do we do flood management,
Why might river basins need to be...,
What is hard engineering
18  cards
R - Case study - Boscastle
When did it happen,
What were the physical causes of ...,
What were the human causes
7  cards
R - Case study - Bangladesh
What were the physical causes,
What were the human causes,
What were the primary effects
7  cards

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