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Physical Geography- glaciers and technonics

This class was created by Brainscape user Susie Cabral. Visit their profile to learn more about the creator.

By: Susie Cabral
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Decks in this class (23)

climare change and glaciation
Greenhouse conditions,
Ice house conditions,
The quanternary period
13  cards
milankovitch cycle
Eccecnticity cycle,
Obliquity cycle,
Axil precession
5  cards
solar output, volacanic eruptions
Solar output,
Volcanic eruptions gases,
Little ice age
5  cards
cryosphere and different ice masses
The cryosphere includes,
What the cryosphere does,
The albedo effect
10  cards
glacier systems
Inputs,
Stores,
Flows
12  cards
glacial movement
Extesional flow,
Compressional flow,
Faster moving ice is found
17  cards
glacial erosions
Plucking quarrying,
Abration,
Crushing
5  cards
glacial erosion landforms
corries, Artete, pyramidal peak, glacial troughs, hanging valley, rouches mountonnees, crag and tail
7  cards
glacial deposition - processes
Ablasion,
Flow,
Lodgement
7  cards
glacial deposition - landforms
Lateral moraine,
Medial morraine,
Terminal moraine
6  cards
fluvioglacial processes
Fluvioglacial,
Stratification,
Sorting and grading
4  cards
fluvioglacial landforms
Eskers,
Kames,
Kame terraces
7  cards
periglacial processes
Solifluction,
Solufluction produces,
Freeze thaw weathering
7  cards
periglacial landforms not finished. p52
Ice wedges,
Patterned ground,
Frost heave patterned ground
9  cards
values of glaciated landscapes
includes: vlaues of glaciers, how glaciers are used economically, cryosphere, tundra biodiversity
11  cards
threats and management of glaciated landscapes
0  cards
volcanos
1inner core,
2outer core,
3lower mantel
4  cards
tectonic plate theory
Oceanic continental,
Deconstructive marginoceanic oceanic,
Deconstructive margine
9  cards
different types of earthquakes
Primary wave,
Secondary waves,
3  cards
secondary hazards of earthquakes p10 and 11
Soil liquifaction,
Landslides,
Tsunamis
3  cards
tectonic case studies
0  cards
1.4 Hazard/Disaster, vulnerability, resilience + hazard risk equation
What is a hazard,
What is a disaster,
What is resilience
8  cards
1.5 hazard profiles
What is a hazard profile,
Magnitude,
Speed of onset
7  cards

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