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1.2 Plate Tectonics
What are the different processes ...,
What is mantle convection,
What is the slab pull theory
50
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1.8 Tectonics- Geophysical disaster trends and hazard profiles
How has the number of natural dis...,
What factors are worth noting whi...,
What highlights the idea that eve...
23
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3.4 Coastal Erosion- Processes And Landforms
What are the ways in which the fo...,
What is abrasion,
What is hydraulic action
29
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3.5 Coastal Transport And Deposition
What is longshore drift,
What is an example of a coastline...,
How are spits formed
54
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3.6 Weathering and mass movement at the coast
What is weathering,
What is mass movement,
What are the different types of m...
31
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3.7 sea level change
What is isostatic change,
What is eustatic change,
What is marine regression
30
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3.8 The Holderness Coastline
What is some context and facts on...,
What are the three main reasons a...,
Where is the holderness
10
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3.9 Coastal flooding
What is some context information ...,
How is the coast flooded in bangl...,
How is human action cauisng subsi...
47
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3.10 Managing coastal erosion and flooding
What is hard engineering,
What is soft engineering,
What are groynes
39
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3.11 Managing coasts in a holistic way
How much of the holderness coastl...,
What is a cost benefit analysis,
What are tangible costs and benefits
32
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5.1 the importance of the global hydrological cycle
Is the hydrological system open o...,
What drives the hydrological system,
How important is the hydrological...
24
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5.2 drainage basins
Is a drainage basin an open or cl...,
What is a drainage basin,
What physical factors affect drai...
41
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5.3 The water balance and river regimes
What is a water budget,
How else can the water budget be ...,
What are the inputs of a water bu...
42
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5.4 Deficits within the hydrological system
What is a drought,
What is a meteorological drought,
What is a hydrological drought
59
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5.5 Surpluses in the hydrological system
What is flooding,
What are the four metrological ca...,
What are some examples of
33
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5.6 Climate change and the hydrological system
What are the different components...,
How will climate change vary the ...,
How will climate change vary evap...
31
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5.7 climate change and the hydrological cycle
How does climate change vary the ...,
How does climate change influence...,
How does climate change influence...
40
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5.8 water insecurity- the causes
What has the un named the crisis ...,
In theory why is there no global ...,
What is the world water gap
46
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5.9 Water insecurity- the consequences
What are the three causes of wate...,
What is physical economic scarcity,
What is economic scarcity
41
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Volcanoes
What plate margins can volcanoes ...,
What type of volcano happens at a...,
Why type of volcano happens at de...
34
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Earthquakes and tsunamis
On average how many people die pe...,
What in earthquakes causes the gr...,
What is the name of the point ins...
51
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Carbon 2.1
What are some of the stores of ca...,
What is a flux,
What are the two different types ...
40
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Carbon 2.2
What are carbon cycle pumps,
What is the biological carbon pump,
How much carbon does the biologic...
42
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Carbon 2.3
What is the order of biomes is te...,
What are the positive role of gre...,
What are the characteristics of co2
7
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