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what is a aeolian land form |
the processes of wind |
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what is a fluvial land form |
produced by a river or stream |
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what is a glacial landform |
dynamic, large moving bodies of Ice that exist for long periods of time.formed by actions from glaciers |
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what is the process of folding |
forming mountains when the plates bend the bed rock in a similar way to a rug that folds when it is pushed from both sides |
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what is the process of faulting |
the process of forming mountains when enormous pressure is exerted along the crusts weakest points called fault lines |
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which famous mountain ranges do scientists believe will get higher due to the folding process |
Mount Everest , Mount Kilmenjaro |
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describe the action occurring in divergent boundaries |
plates spreading apart |
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describe the action occurring in convergent boundries |
plates colliding and sliding on top of the other |
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describe the action occurring in transformational boundaries |
plates sliding past each other |
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give an example of a place in the world where a divergent boundary occurs |
Arabian plate drifting away from the African plate |
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what are three types of convergent boundaries and where to they occur |
oceanic, continental and oceanic-continental |
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give an example of a place on the world where a transformational boundary occurs |
San Andreas fault in california |
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what are the three main types of volcanoes |
composite cinder cone sheild volcano |
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describe a cinder cone volecano |
formed when dust and rock fragments erupt from a vent and settle around it |
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describe a composite volcano |
formed when rock, dust and lava fragments erupt from a vent piling up in layers |
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describe a shield volcano |
formed when lava flows from a vent and spreads out |
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what is the ring of fire |
the worlds most volcanically active region |
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what is tephra |
fragments of lava blasted into the air |
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what is a landslide |
mass movements of rock and soil rolling down the hill |
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what is a avalanche |
snow and ice falling rapidly down a hill |
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what is an earthquake |
violent shaking in the ground due to the movement of tectonic plates |
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what is a richter scale |
a device used for measuring the magnitude of an earthquake |
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what is magnitude |
the intensity of an earthquake |
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what is weathering |
the breakdown of rock |
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what is erosion |
sediments are removed by a geomorphic proscess |
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what is a megacity |
a city with a population over ten million |
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what is an infrastructure |
structures provided to improve lives |
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what is low density housing |
one dwelling ocupies each a block of land |
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what is urbanisation |
increase of people living in an urban space |
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industrial revolution |
The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transport, and technology had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions |
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what is population density |
Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume |
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what is sprawl |
an ungainly or carelessly relaxed position in which one's arms and legs are spread out. |
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what is carbon footprint |
carbon produced by a person place or thing |
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what are push and pull factors |
push- pushing you away from where you live (bad income and house) pull- encouraging you to move to a specific area (good job choice and farming lands) |
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what is biodiversity |
all living things |