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Shanty towns are unplanned urban areas, usually on the edges of a large city, with a markedly low quality of living for their inhabitants. They are often incredibly overcrowded, for example Dharavi in Mumbai...

(NB:this is not a full answer, those taking GCSE or A-Level examinations would need more detail) Plate margins are the places where the Earth's plates meet and sometimes they are known instead as plate bound...

Meanders are bends in a river. The formation first develops from alternating bars of sediment, called riffles. Low flows of water in the river have a low hydraulic radius which means there is not enough kine...

Firstly, an ageing population puts a greater strain on health services, which will therefore require more government funding; this is particularly an issue because elderly people are more susceptible to heal...

A waterfall is created due to the banding of rocks with varying hardness and softness. The harder rock (granite) is more resistant to erosion and so erodes at a different speed to the soft (sandstone). This ...