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It is useful to underline/highlight any key concepts/ideas they are asking about to target your answer. For example - To what extent do urban areas in lower income countries (LICs) or newly emerging economie...

Some areas of coast, such as the 90 kilometer Purbeck coastline on the South coast of England are known as discordant coastlines. This means they have bands of rocks with alternating resistance, in layers pe...

A constructive plate boundary occurs when two tectonic plates are moving away from one and other. This movement is caused by currents within the mantle. As the plates are slowly pulled apart the rising magma...

Waterfalls form where a river is flowing over hard rock lying on soft rock. The soft rock is eroded faster, so there is a step in the river which deepens over time. It is eroded by hydraulic action and abras...

The 4 main ways in which a coastline can be eroded are: Attrition, Abrasion, Hydraulic action and solution. To begin with, attrition is the collisions of the rocks in the sea which causes them to become smal...