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Rainforest stats

1 hectare per sec destroyed. ½ all rainforest since 1970

Epping forest

Car parks and paths, volunteers helping with litter, ponds, scrub etc, cattle to graze

nutrient cycle

nutrients is stored in litter, biomass and soil. soil gains nutrients from rock weathering and litter decomposition, loses it to leaching and uptake by plants. biomass gains from uptake from soil, and loses to fallout from dying tissues. litter gains from tissue fallout and input from rain, and loses to runoff and decomposition.

wave terms

ridge, swell,

Coastal weathering

Mechanical or chemical

Mechanical - freeze thaw, salt crystallisation, thermal expansion

Chemical - pxydation, carbonation, hydrolysis

erosion

Corrasion, abrasion, hydrolic action, attrition

transportation

traction, suspension, solution, saltation

Lyme regis stats

42 mill spent

Glacial erosion

plucking, abrasion - form moraine and corries

Glacial movement

rotational slip, basal flow

glacial transport

moraine

till

outwash

bulldozer or erratics

upland glacial landforms

corrie, arete, pyramidal peak

lowland gacial landforms

drumlins, u shaped valley, hanging valley, truncated spurs and ribbon lakes

Lake District stats

• 15.8mil visitors yearly

• 83% travel by car

• 20% of Lake District properties are rentals and second homes

• tourist revenue ~£3bil in 2019, employs 15 000 people

Haiyan stats

cat 5, 195mph wind

90% of city destroyed

killed over 6,000

injured 29000

4100000 homeless

12 billion costs

1.5 billion aid