Delta
- A delta is a fan-shaped area of land found at the mouth of a river. - It is a feature of river deposition.Formation of a Delta When a river reaches a lake or sea, it slows down and loses ...
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- A delta is a fan-shaped area of land found at the mouth of a river. - It is a feature of river deposition.Formation of a Delta When a river reaches a lake or sea, it slows down and loses ...
- A heavy industry is a type of industry that makes heavy/ bulky finished products from heavy/bulky raw materials. For example ship-building.Case Study: Heavy Industry-Banagher Precast Concr...
- Rocks provide us with important natural resources. - These resources can be mined or extracted from the Earth in different ways.Drilling - This is the process of boring into the earth's ...
- A sustainable forest is a forest that is carefully looked after. - Trees that have been cut down are replaced with seedlings that grow into mature trees.Sustainable Exploitation of Forestr...
- Overfishing happens when fish are taken from the sea faster than they can reproduce. There are a number of reasons why overfishing is happening: - Improved ships: Super-trawlers have inc...
- Shaft mining is the process of drilling vertically into the earth to gain access to minerals beneath the surface. Coal, lead and zinc can be accessed this way and brought to the surface.En...
- Quarrying is the process of removing rock, sand, gravel or minerals from the ground. - Quarrying happens at or near the surface of the earth. - The materials extracted are used by the cons...
- Plate Tectonics means that the earth is made up of large, moving plates of solid rock.Separating Plates As two plates separate, magma wells up to fill the space between. The magma cools a...