Definitions Flashcards
1
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What is air mass?
A
- A continental-scale body of air with uniform temperature and moisture characteristics
2
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What are anti-natalist policies?
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- Policies designed to encourage women to have fewer children
3
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Asthenosphere?
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- Zone of the upper mantle that lies beneath the lithosphere and consists of several hundred kilometers of deformable rock
4
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Bleaching?
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- The process by which small temperature rises in ocean water cause coral to whiten and eventually die
5
Q
Call centres?
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- An example of outsourcing, where companies employ people to answer questions about servicing and advice about products
6
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Conservative margin?
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- A plate boundary where plates move past each other without subduction occuring
7
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Constructive margin?
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- A plate boundary where new oceanic material is being created
8
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Conurbation?
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- A large urban area, formed when a city expands and merges with surrounding towns
9
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Continental crust?
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- Lighter and generally thicker crustal material
- Dominated by granitic rocks
10
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Epicentre?
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The place where earthquake forces are generated
11
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El Nino?
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An abnormal warming of surface areas in the Eastern Tropical Pacific
12
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Fold mountains?
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Buckled leading edge of a continental plate as it collides with another plate
13
Q
FDI?
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When TNC’s from one country invest capital in another country
14
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FTZ’s?
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Free Trade Zones
Special industrial parks for TNC’s, they have low tax rates, weak environmental regulations and trade unions are banned
15
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GDP?
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Total value of goods and services produced in any one year
