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| 🇬🇧 | 🇬🇧 |
| Example of a primary consumer | Caterpillar |
| Example of a decomposer | Leaves |
| Where are hot deserts found | In the tropic of cancer and capricorn |
| What is the sediment in a desert made of | Rock and sand |
| Where are deciduous forests found | 40-60 degrees north and south of the equator |
| Why is this | The soil is infertile |
| Where are tropical rainforests found | Along the equator |
| What can be farmed on this land | Crops and animals |
| Give an example of a plant adaptation in the rainforest | Buttress roots |
| Give 2 methods of sustainable management in the rainforest | Selective logging and ecotourism |
| Explain selective logging | Only cutting down old or mature trees |
| What is the name for deserts spreading | Desertification |
| Give a cause of desertification | Climate change |
| What is the name for tree planting | Afforestation |
| Name this plate boundary | Constructive |
| Name this plate boundary | Destructive |
| Name this plate boundary | Conservative |
| What is latitude | How far north or south a place is from the equator |
| What is longitude | How far east or west a place is from the middle |
| Where is the cold air | Polar cell |
| Where is the warm air | Hadley cell |
| How are gorges made | By the vertical erosion of a waterfall |
| Give an example of an erosional process | Hydraulic action |
| Give another example | Hydraulic action |
| Give another example | Traction |
| Where do meanders occur | The middle course |
| Where do waterfalls occur | The upper course |
| What are levees | Where the sediment is deposited on the banks after a flood |
| Where are flood plains located | The middle course |
| Where are deltas found | The lower course |
| What is lag time | The time between peak rainfall and peak discharge |
| How is soft engineering done | Natural materials |
| How is hard engineering done | Heavy machinery and unnatural materials |
| Give a subaerial process | Mechanical weathering |
| What angle does long shore drift work at | 45 degrees |
| Which way does long shore drift go | The same way as the prevailing wind |
| How is a wave cut platform made | When the cliff face has been worn away so all that is left is a platform known as rockpools |
| How is a stack made | When a headland is eroded into an arch which eventually becomes a stack |
| What are headlands made of | Hard rock |
| What are bays made of | Soft rock |
| What is a spit | It is made when the coastline turns and longshore drift carries the sediment straight |
| What is a bar | A bar is made like a spit but it closes an entrance making a lagoon behind it |
| Give one example of soft engineering of coastal management | Beach replenishment |