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Decks in this class (29)

Water & Carbon - Processes in the water cycle
What are the four global stores o...,
What percentage of water is store...,
What percentage of water is store...
30  cards
Water & Carbon - water balance & soil moisture budgets
What is the water balance equation 1,
What are the water balance condit...,
What is water surplus 3
7  cards
Water & Carbon - factors affecting the risk of flooding
What is bank full capacity 1,
What are the five physical factor...,
How does precipitation increase f...
12  cards
Water & Carbon - flood hydrographs
What are hydrographs 1,
What are cumecs 2,
What is the rising limb 3
11  cards
Water & Carbon - Processes in the carbon cycle
What are the global stores of car...,
What are the 5 stages of the slow...,
What is the slow carbon cycle 3
15  cards
Water & Carbon - Feedback in the water & carbon cycles
What is dynamic equilibrium 1,
What is a negative feedback loop 2,
What is a positive feedback loop 3
13  cards
Water & Carbon - mitigating climate change
What is the climate budget 1,
What is renewable energy 2,
What are the advantages of renewa...
19  cards
Water & carbon - Farming & Climate Change
What is agribusiness 1,
How does agribusiness impact clim...,
What is an example of agribusiness 3
20  cards
Water & Carbon Cycles - Tropical Rainforest Case Study
How much rainfall does the amazon...,
Water cycle in the amazon 2,
Example of water cycle in the ama...
31  cards
Water & Carbon Cycles - River Catchment Case Study
0  cards
Coasts - Systems & Processes
What is the backshore 1,
What is the foreshore 2,
What is the inshore 3
70  cards
Coasts - Coastal Landscape Development
What three factors determine coas...,
What are the three classification...,
What three factors determine the ...
22  cards
Coasts - Coastal Management
What are the two main areas of co...,
What are some other aims of coast...,
What is hard engineering 3
7  cards
Coasts - Local Coastal Environment Case Study
Where is the holderness coastline...,
How long is the holderness coastl...,
What are the cliffs made from on ...
20  cards
Coasts - Odisha Case Study
What is an iczm 1,
Where is odisha 2,
How is big odisha 3
20  cards
Hazards - Concept Of A Hazard
What is a hazard 1,
When does a hazard become a natur...,
What is a geophysical hazard 3
30  cards
Hazards - Plate Tectonics
What is the lithosphere 1,
What is the mantle 2,
What is the outer core 3
29  cards
Hazards - Volcanic Hazards
What are the four types of volcan...,
Where does basaltic lava form 2,
Where does andesitic and rhyoliti...
15  cards
Hazards - Seismic Hazards
What three ways are earthquakes m...,
How does the richter scale measur...,
How does the moment magnitude sca...
16  cards
Hazards - Storm Hazards
Where and when do tropical storms...,
What are the three hazards that t...,
What are the conditions needed fo...
6  cards
Hazards - Fires In Nature
How does a wildfire spread 1,
What are some human causes of wil...,
What are some natural causes of w...
29  cards
Recent Seismic Event - Indian Ocean 2004
What were the primary impacts of ...,
What were the secondary impacts o...,
What were the short term response...
10  cards
Recent Volcanic Event - La Soufriere 2020/21
When did the eruption take place 1,
How big was the ash plume 2,
When did the 2nd explosive event ...
7  cards
Tropical Storm - Hurricane Irma (HIC)
When did hurricane irma reach flo...,
What category was hurricane irma 2,
How many people were evacuated 3
12  cards
Tropical Storm - Typhoon Haiyan (LIC)
What category was typhoon haiyan 1,
When did typhoon haiyan make land...,
What were the wind speeds of typh...
13  cards
Recent Wildfire - Black Summer Bushfire, Australia 2019/20
When did the bushfires occur 1,
How much forest was destored 2,
How many animals lived in the for...
14  cards
Multi Hazardous - Haiti Earthquake 2010
When did the haiti earthquake occ...,
What magnitude was the haiti eart...,
Where did the earthquake occur in...
11  cards
Multi Hazardous - Hurricane Matthew 2016
When did hurricane matthew hit ha...,
What category was hurricane matth...,
Where did hurricane matthew hit h...
9  cards
Local Scale Event - Christchurch Earthquake 2010
When did the principle event stri...,
Where was the epicentre located 2,
Where was the focus located 3
14  cards

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