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Created on: 22-04-16 17:38

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- Physical Geography
  - WEATHER - day to day changes in the atmosphere
  - Coasts
  - DESERT IFICATION - climate of dry region becomes drier.
    - GULLY EROSION - erosion of soil by heavy rainfall
  - Ecosystem - community of plants and animals, environment
  - Rivers
- Urban
  - Planning
  - Urban
  - Urbanisation
  - Access to Services Changing Provision
  - Quality of life - happiness and contentment / housing
- Uneven Develop ment
  - Employment
  - Interdepend ance - complex pattern of trade, communication
  - Development
  - Water
    - ABSTRACT TION - removal of water from rock / surface
  - Environment
    - ACID RAIN - caused by pollution unnatural acidic
      - LEACHING - removal of nutrients by rainwater
- Rural
ADULT LITERACY- % who can write / read
AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY- age to which people live
BACKWASH - flow of water returning to the sea
BIOFUEL - crops used a fuel for heating
- EMISSION - chemical releases into the air
BROWN FIELD SITE - site where older building demolisedbefore renovation
- GENTRIFIC ATION - run down area improved and becomes desirable
- Urban
- GREEN BELT - policy to prevent the spread of cities
CANOPY - upper layers of a first
CLIIMATE CHANGE - A long term change in weather (humans natural)
Comparison GOOD - items bought less often (TV)
CYCLONE - a severe low pressure systems
DEPRESSION - low pressure system wind and rain 970 - 990 mb
DEBT FOR NATURE - agree to stop logging for money
RURAL DE Population- loss of people and low birth rate in rural areas
DEPRIVATION - to lack some basic need education security equality
DISPLACED - people losing home due to conflict
DUMPING- selling goods abroad cheap. Steel from China
ECONOMIC MIGRANT - moves to find work
ENVIRON MENTAL REFUGEES - forced to leave home due to disaster
ESTUARY -Tidal part of a river where enters the sea
FORMAL JOBS - regular wage and controlled by the state
FREE TRADE - trade without limits
LONGSHORE DRIFT - movement material along a beach / coast
HARD ENGINEER ING - working against natural processes
HYDRO LOGICAL CYCLE - flow of water through surface and atmosphere
INFILTR ATION - movement of water into the ground
INFORMAL SECTOR - irregular jobs, recycling to chores
INFORMAL SETTLEMENT - homes where households have no legal right to live, tenure. Shanty Towns
INNER URBAN - central older part of city
KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY - jobs requiring large education
- KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE SERVICES (KIS) - finance education
LAG TIME - time from peak rainfall to peak discharge
FLOOD - when a river exceeds it bankfull discharge
LEDC - less Economically DEvelopedCountry
LEVEES - banks on either side to contain flow
LOAD - sediment carried by a river
LOCAL DEVELOP MENT FRAME WORK - planning document for local areas after talking to locals (Consultation)
MANUFACTURING - making products from raw materials
MECHANISATION - increased use of machines
MICRO CREDIT - money given to people too poor for a bank loan to start a business
MEDC - More
MULTI LATERAL AID - involves aid from more then one country
NET OUT MIGRATION - a general movementpeople out of an area. More leave then arrive
NON GOVERN MENT ORGANI SATION - Water Aid charity to help people
NUTRIENT FLOW - flow of nutrients from one store to another
NUTRIENT STORE - place that store nutrient such as vegetation and soil
OVER ABSTRACT TION - more taken out ten replaced lead to drought
OVERLAND FLOW - water that flows over the ground surface
PASTORAL FARMERS- farmers who graze animals
POSITIVE MULTIPLIER EFFECT - positive chain off event triggers by new job in area
POST GLACIAL REBOUND - rising of earth crust after glaciation (Ice on it)
POVERTY LINE - A level of income below which you are poor.
PRECIPITATION - all forms of water moving from the sky to the ground
- WATER STRESS - severe water shortage after drought
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE - first health immunisation
PRIMARY - raw material foods stuffs
TERTIARY - services
PRIVATE SECTOR - work for themselves or a company not controlled by government
PULL FACTORS - reason to move home
RAIN SHADOW - area located on the leeward side of mountain and have low rainfall
LEEWARDSIDE - down wind
- WIND WARD - side faces into the wind
RAIN WATER HARVEST ING - collecting rainwater for use from a roof
Regional DEVELOP MENT FRAME WORK - plans in a region for roads, houses schools
RELIEF RAINFALL - precipitation caused by mountains forcing air to rise
REMITENCES - money sent back to home areas by migrants
REPOSSESS SION - loss of home to the bank
RETREAT - movement back of the land due to erosion
SAHEL - region of North Africa south Sahara desert
SAVANNA - ecosystem grasslands seasonal wet and dry
SEDIMENT - material carried in water (river / sea)
SELF EMPLOYED - people wh work for themselves
THRESHOLD POPULATION - Minimum people to make a business viable
SOCIO ECONOMIC - mix of social and economic
SOLUTION - dissolves rock
STANDARD OF LIVING - relative wealth
STORM SURGE- surge in the tide due to low pressure weather coastal flooding
SUSPENSION - time sediment and silt carried in water flow
SALTATION - bouncing of sediment
TOMBOLO - landform like a spit but connects coastline to an island
TRADIING BLOCS - trading partnerships between countries
TROPICAL RAIN BELT - ITCZ zone with lots of rain in tropics
TUNDRA - ecosystem the arctic regions
URBAN MICRO CLIMATE - climate in city influencedby building and traffic
WAVE CUT NOTCH - slot of rock with overhanging rock cut into the cliff by wave action
WAVE CUT PLATFORM - rocky shelf in front of a cliff
WATER STORES - place where water kept

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