Useful Geography Key Words 1 Flashcards
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Aeroponics
Growing plants in an air or mist environment without the use of soil
Appropriate (or intermediate) technology
Technology suited to the needs, skills, knowledge and wealth of local people and their environment
Arch
A wave-eroded passage through a small headland. This begins as a cave which is gradually widened and deepened until it cuts through.
Bar
When a spit grows across a bay, a bay bar can eventually enclose the bay tho create a lagoon
Beach nourishment
Adding new material to a beach artificially, through the dumping of large amounts of sand or shingle
Beach re-profiling
Changing the profile or shape of the beach
Biodiversity
The variety of life in the world or a particular ecosystem
Brownfield site
Land that has been used, abandoned and now awaits reuse; often found in urban areas
Business park
An area of land occupied by a number of businesses
Carbon footprint
Measurement of the greenhouse gases individuals produce, through burning fossil fuels
Cave
A large hole in a cliff caused by waves forcing their way into cracks in the cliff face
Channel straightening
Removing meanders from a river to make it straighter
Chemical weathering
The decomposition (rotting) of rock caused by a chemical change within that rock
Conservation
Managing the environment in order to preserve, protect or restore it
Conservative plate margin
Two plates sliding along each other, in the same or different directions
Constructive plate margin
Tectonic plate margin where rising magma adds new material to plates that are diverging or moving apart
Consumer
Organism that eats herbivores and/or plant matter
Cross profile
The side-by-side cross section of a river channel and/or valley
Dept relief
Cancellation if debts to a country by a global organisation such as the World Bank
Decomposer
Organisms such as bacteria of fungi that break down plant and animal material
De-industrialisation
The decline of a country’s traditional manufacturing industry due to exhaust of raw materials, loss of markets and overseas competition
Deposition
Occurs when material being transported by the sea is dropped due to the sea losing energy
Desertification
The process by which land becomes drier and degraded as a result of climate change or human activities, or both
Destructive plate margin
Tectonic plate margin where two plates are converging and oceanic plate is subducted- there could be violent earthquakes and explosive volcanoes
