globalisation - process of the world becoming more interconnected and interdependent, development - type of aid that aims to make a country more self-reliant, tied - type of aid that comes with conditions attached that often benefit the donor country, multilateral - aid administered through agencies such as the U.N and Red Cross, fairtrade - this is the logo of..., condensation - water vapour turning into liquid water, evaporation - liquid water turning into water vapour, precipation - water leaving the atmosphere and returning to the surface, surface runoff - water draining from the land back to the oceans, hygrometer - instrument used to measure humidity, barometer - instrument used to measure air pressure, rain gauge - instrument used to measure rainfall, thermometer - instrument used to measure air temperature, anemometer - instrument used to measure wind speed, windvane - instrument used to measure wind direction, depression - a low pressure weather system, anticyclone - a high pressure weather system, front - where one air mass meets another air mass, relief - type of rainfall created by air ramping up over mountains, convectional - type of rain generated by intensive heating of the ground, frontal - type of rainfall generated by one air mass ramping up over another air mass, quartzite - rock that sandstone can be metamorphosed to, marble - type of rock that limestone can be metamorphosed to, slate - type of rock that shale can be metamorphosed to, gneiss - type of rock that granite can be metamorphosed to, limestone - type of rock found in the Burren, basalt - most common rock type in Co Antrim, granite - most common rock type in the Wicklow Mountains, sandstone - type of rock found in the MacGillycuddy Reeks, confluence - point where two rivers join , abrasion - process of erosion where sediments scratch and scrape against the land, attrition - process of erosion where sediments in water erode eachother, hydraulic action - process of erosion caused by moving water, longshore drift - process by which waves transport sand along the coast, source - where a river begins, alluvium - fine silty soils deposited by fluvial flood waters, delta - landform formed from deposits at the mouth of a river, levees - raised river banks, plucking - process of erosion associated with glaciers, central business district - C.B.D, congestion - traffic, methane - a very powerful greenhouse gas, hydro electric power - renewable energy made by damming a river, greenhouse effect - warming of the atmosphere by CO2, watershed - dividing line between two drainage basins, terracettes - ripples in soil formed by soil creep, landslide - a fast mass movement process, primary economic activities - industries that are based on extracting raw materials from nature, secondary economic activities - industries that process raw materials into finished goods, tertiary sector - sector that is the largest employer in advanced economies, taliban - regime that governs Afghanistan, mid atlantic ridge - landform that runs along the boundary of the Eurasian and North American plates, convection currents - they cause tectonic plates to move, stevenson screen - white slatted box that's used to house weather instruments, campbell stokes recorder - instrument that's used to record the amount of sunshine, seismometer - instrument that's used to measure the strength of an earthquake, epicentre - point at the surface directly above an earthquake, focus - point in the crust where an earthquake begins, magma - what lava is called when it's below the surface, lagoon - Our Lady's Island is an example of one, headland - there are 2 of these at either end of a bay, swash - water breaking up onto a beach when a wave breaks, backwash - water draining back down a beach after a wave has broken, carbonation - a process of chemical weathering active in the Burren, freeze thaw action - a process of mechanical/physical weathering, the burren - a karst landscape in Ireland, corrie - large bowl shaped depression in a mountain caused by glacial erosion, cirque - another name for a corrie, arete - narrow steep side ridge separating 2 corries, boulder clay - jumble of unsorted material left behind once a glacier melts, esker - snake like ridge formed by meltwater running underneath a glacier, drumlins - small egg shaped hills formed by glacier deposition, meander - a pronounced bend in a river, gorge - a narrow steep sided valley eroded by a retreating waterfall, floodplain - low lying land prone to flooding in a river valley, blessington lakes - reservoir formed by the Poulaphuca dam across the river Liffey, syncline - the lower part of a fold, anticline - the upper part of a fold, slaney meats - an example of a local manufacturing industry, ribbon - type of lake found on floor of U shaped valley, tarn - type of lake found inside corries, destructive - type of wave that causes erosion of the coastline, constructive - type of wave that causes deposition along the coast, polder - land reclaimed from a shallow sea, Netherlands - a country that 1/3rd of was reclaimed from the sea, demographic transition model - idea that population growth will slow and eventually decline as a country develops economically, fertility rate - the number of babies that the average woman will have during her life, birth rate - number of births, per 1000, per year, demography - the study of human populations, population pyramids - graphs that show the age and gender of populations,

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