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A meander is a winding curve or bend in the river. The river erodes fastest on the outside bend of the river through a process called lateral erosion. Lateral erosion results in undercutting of the river ban...

Heat is produced through the radioactive decay of elements in the inner core. This heats the lower mantle, causing the magma to become less dense and rise. Once it reaches the upper mantle it cools, becomes ...

The prevailing wind is the known common direction that the wind blows along a coast, whether that is east, south west etc. it is specific to each specific site. Longshore drift is the movement of sediments a...

Meanders form in the lower regions of a river, where the river profile is flatter and the river bed is wide. There are 'ripples' and 'pools' which are shallow and deep parts of the river bed respectively. As...

There are three main types of migration. these are chain migration, relay migration and step migration. Chain migration is when a migrant moves to a destination country for a while, finds a job and get finan...