Inputs Flashcards
(20 cards)
What are inputs
Workers money raw materals
Preocesses
Carving assembling
Outputs
Finished prepping
Name a multinayional compamy
Intel
Why do multinational compmues builf here
Easy access to markets labour force highly educated force corporation tax low
Explain interlocking spurs
River flows very fast in upper course makes its say down hill winding and bending around areas of hard rock that cannot erode
River erodes vertically as it winds and bends
Creates high ground on either side of the river like a sip exampk slaney
Describe how a waterfall is formed
When a river flows over an area where a band of hard rock lies (granite ) across soft rock (sandstone)
The soft rock erodes more quickly than the resistance hard rock creating a veryical drop -water fall
Descrive a plunge pool
As the fall increases in size on the waterfall the material that carry its load create a deeper pool at the bottom of the water fall
As the water falls into the plunge pool its splashes against the back wall and solution eeodes away the backwall undercutting the waterfall
What does mechanical weathering and mass movement do
They weather the sides of the valley breaking down rocks and soil
What is a rivers load
Materials that fall into the river and carried down stream
Name a youth stage in a river exampls
Interlocking spurs
Why are rivers important
They drain the lamd of rainwater and carry it out to sea
Source
Start of the river
Course
The route the river takes to sea
Confluence
Point when 2 rivers meet
Tributary
A stream or small river that flows into a larger stream or river
Mouth
The point where a river comes to the end entering the sea
Drainage basin
The area of land drained into the sea
Watershed
Area of high ground betwern two drainage basins
Estuary
Tidal part of the river
