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Statistical tests
What is the purpose of standard d...,
What is the purpose of a spearman...,
What is the purpose of a location...
14
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1.1 - Locations at risk from tectonic hazards
What is a hazard,
What is the global distribution o...,
What is the global distribution o...
51
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1.2 - Tectonic hazards & disaster
What is a natural hazard,
What is a natural disaster,
What is a natural disaster
48
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1.3 - management of tectonic hazards and disaster
What do the overall longer term n...,
Name 5 reasons why disaster stati...,
Name 3 key characteristics of tec...
44
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Chile 2010 Earthquake - tectonic hazards
When did the earthquake take place,
What was the magnitude,
What
13
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Haiti 2010 earthquake - tectonic hazards
When did the earthquake occur,
What was the magnitude of the ear...,
Plates
11
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Coastal Landscapes
What are the zones that the litto...,
What is the backshore zone found ...,
What is the foreshore zone found ...
108
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Coastal Landscapes
What is the littoral zone,
What is dynamic frequency,
Name the 3 ways coasts are classi...
39
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Coastal Landscapes- waves, landforms, trasnport
How are waves created,
What is wavelength,
What is wave frequency
71
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Managing risks and conflicts
Definition of hard engineering,
Name 2 disadvantages of hard engi...,
Definition of soft engineering
67
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hunan activity and coastal recession
Name 2 geological factors affecti...,
Name 2 marine factors affecting c...,
How can human activity increase r...
15
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Coastal risks
Name 3 factors effecting sea leve...,
Definition of isostatic change,
Definition of eustatic change
15
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Coastal landscapes and systems
What are the zones that the litto...,
What is the backshore zone found ...,
What is the foreshore zone found ...
30
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Geology and the coast
Definition of strata,
Definition of bedding planes hori...,
Definition of joints vertical cracks
68
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Sea level change
Name 3 factors effecting sea leve...,
Definition of isostatic change,
Definition of eustatic change
57
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Lanforms and landscapes
How are waves crated,
What effects the size of the wave,
What is the wave fetch
15
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Sea level change
Name 3 factors effecting sea leve...,
Definition of isostatic change,
Definition of eustatic change
33
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Intergrated Coastal Management
What does coastal management incr...,
What is integrated coastal zone m...,
Name the 3 key characteristics of...
20
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Holderness Coastline - Coasts
How quickly does the holderness c...,
What are the 4 causes of the hold...,
Name 4 hard engineering strategie...
15
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The Water Cycle
What type of system is the hydrol...,
What is a closed system,
What is the hydrological cycle
54
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Water Cycle 2
Explain the importance of the int...,
How does the itcz cause heavy rai...,
What is the itcz
80
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5.1 - The operation and importance of the hydrological cycle
What type of system is the hydrol...,
What is the global hydrological c...,
What is a store
71
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5.2- short & long-term variations in the hydrological cycle
What are the four types of drought,
What is meteorological drought an...,
What is hydrological drought and ...
36
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5.3 - water security
What are players,
What percentage of water is usabl...,
What is peak water
55
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The carbon cycle
Name the 4 stores carbon is prese...,
What is the carbon cycle,
What are fluxes
45
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6.1 - The carbon cycle and planetary health
What is the carbon cycle,
What are the main carbon stores,
When is the carbon cycle balanced
62
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6.2- Consequences of the increasing demand for energy
What is energy security,
What is long term energy security,
What is short term energy security
73
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6.3 - human threats to the global climate systems
What is land conversion,
Thretas to the water an carbon cycle,
How is deforestation a threat to ...
3
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Diverse Places
What is the rural urban continuum,
What is population density,
Describe how the population has c...
110
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How population characteristics vary
Definition of cultural diversity,
Definition of ethnic enclave,
Definition of social clustering
9
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globalisation
What is globalisation,
Explain economic globalisation,
Explain the effect of the shrinki...
70
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Diverse places - 2
What is management,
What can management be assed using,
What is an issue
3
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Geographical impacts of globalisation
Definition of cultural traits,
Definition of cultural imperialism,
Definition of soft power
4
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Drpught
What is water security,
Name the 3 sources of water,
What is groundwater
19
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Superpowers
What is a superpower,
What is a hyperpower,
Name the 5 pillars of superpower ...
34
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globalisation 2
Name the 5 flows of movement,
What is a gross domestic product,
What are emerging economies
63
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water
Name 3 reasons as to why there is...,
Physical distrubution,
Gaps between rising demand dimins...
8
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test
Give examples of water management...,
What do water transfer schemes in...,
Give an example of a water transf...
23
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Superpower impacts
What are inter govermental organi...,
What is free market capitilisatism,
What is centrally planned economy
12
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Superpowers 2
Name 3 things the un has internat...
1
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6.3 Atmospheric Carbon
What is the greenhouse effect,
Why is the carbon cycle so essent...,
Explain the greenhouse effect
13
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Cliamte
Name 4 global climate predictions,
What is positive feedback,
What is negative feedback
7
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energy
What is energy secuirty,
Energy secuirty,
Name the 3 factors that the risin...
10
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Southall
Southall is a neighbourhood in lo...
1
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Slough
Slough
1
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Cornwall
Benefits of living in cornwall be...
1
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Lincolnshire, Boston
Lincoln boston
1
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Canary Wharf
0
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Pepys Estate
0
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The Maldives - Coasts
0
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The Amazon Rainforest - Water Cycle
0
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Superpowers
0
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Norway case study - carbon
0
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china
0
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india
0
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