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One major consequence of deforestation is loss of biodiversity due to habitat destruction. Habitat destruction affects individual species, as well as the environment as whole. For example, the popular dem...

Waterfalls form in the upper course of the river, as a result of a process called differential erosion. Bands of geology have varying resistances to erosion; as the river...

Oxbow lakes are most commonly found in the middle course of the river, where the river has more energy and higher discharge. A meander is first formed due to a balance of erosion and deposition. Helicoida...

case study: Montserrat
Primary effects: 66% of island was covered in ash, 23 people died, buildings and infrastructure damaged
Secondary effects: tourism industry struggles, people left the isla...

A corrie is a bowl-shaped hollow on a mountain side formed during a period of glacial erosion, an example being Cwm Idwal in Snowdonia, Wales. A corrie begins its formation as an accumulation of snow on t...