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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...

Suburbanisation = is the decentralisation of people, employment, and services from the inner city towards the rural urban fringe. One effect is that the affluent middle class often move to the suburbs where ...

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...

The Earth's surface is divide into plates, and these plates on the Crust move around slowly (mm's to cm's a year), this is due to convection currents in the mantle on which the crust sits. These convection c...

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 ...