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Deforestation causes a change to the local water cycle. This is done by reduced evapotranspiration which can cause droughts in neighbouring areas. Another effect is increased temperatures due to reduced w...

Diagram - should include Hadley, Ferrel and Polar cells (with appropriate latitudinal pressure belts) along with trade and prevailing winds from their respective directions. - should be the descriptive pa...

A waterfall, labelled A in resource 1, normally forms in the upper valley of rivers where alternating bands of hard and soft rock occur along the river bed. The bands of softer rock are eroded at a faster...

A river regime is the annual variation in the discharge of a river, the amount of water that travels through a river and how this changes throughout the year. When we consider what factors affect how much...

Deposition can occur firstly as a result of gravity settling. This happens when the energy required to transport sediment becomes too low. Large sediment is often deposition first. Deposition can also occ...