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As you move downstream from the source of a river to the mouth, a number of changes occur to the long profile and cross profile; which can be displayed in a graph plotting distance downstream against elev...

Deforestation is defined as the act of clearing large areas of forest or woodland, usually for economic gain and not as a means of natural resource management.
These impacts can be environmental or ...

Arguably, the primary anthropogenic cause of climate change is the use of fossil fuels, which emit greenhouse gases. These gases can act negatively in the atmosphere by creating a 'blanket Earth' where ra...

Firstly break the question into 2:Nature of earthquake; characteristics, location and scale. For example 2010 Haiti earthquake, magnitude of 7.0 on the richter scale, epicentre 25 km from Haiti's capital ...

Overpopulation means that in a nation there isn't enough resources to maintain the populations sustainably. Leads to a lot of other issues that further exacerbate poverty:congestion over crowdingspread of...