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Geography Unit 3 - Water and Carbon Cycle

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Lesson 1 - Water Cycle Systems
What is a system 1,
What is a store 2,
What are inputs 3
43  cards
Lesson 2 - Catchment hydrology, the drainage basin as a system.
What is drainage basin 1,
What is the main physical input f...,
What affects the coping abilities...
7  cards
Lesson 3 - Temporal Variations in river discharge
What is a river regime 1,
What is the difference between a ...,
What physical factors affect a ri...
12  cards
Lesson 4 - Precipitation and excess run off within the water cycle
What process is involved in the f...,
What is the basic process of clou...,
What is the main return of water ...
14  cards
Lesson 5 - Deficit within the water cycle
What is a water deficit 1,
What is a prolonged unexpected pe...,
Case study of a drought causes ef...
10  cards
Lesson 6 - The Global Carbon Cycl
What are the factors of the carbo...,
What are the stores of the carbon...,
What are the flows of the carbon ...
6  cards
Lesson 7 - Carbon stores in different biomes
What biomes and ecosystems have h...,
Why do tropical rainforests conta...,
Where do temperate grasslands sto...
5  cards
Lesson 8 - Changing carbon storage in peatlands over time
What are peatlands and how do the...,
What is a fen peatland 2,
What is a blanket peatland 3
6  cards
Lesson 9 - Links between the water and carbon cycles
What are some of the causes of th...,
Outline how our climate system wo...,
How does the hadley cell work 3
8  cards
Lesson 10 - Feedback within and between cycles
What is negative feedback 1,
What is positive feedback 2,
What is a system threshold 3
5  cards

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