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Type: Glossary

movement out of a rural area into an urban area

Type: Glossary

development aimed at slowing down rural depopulation and encouraging development in peripheral...

ruware

Type: Glossary

a thin sheet of granite which has become visible on Earth's surface

Type: Glossary

graph showing the acceleration of urbanisation in a country

Sahel

Type: Glossary

area that borders the southern part of the Sahara Desert

Type: Glossary

when mineral salts move upwards into the A horizon

Type: Glossary

photograph taken from satellites in space

Type: Glossary

air that contains the maximum amount of water vapour that it can hold at a given temperature

scale

Type: Glossary

the relationship between the actual size of an area and the size of a map that has been drawn of...

scarp

Type: Glossary

(also called a cliff or freeface) steep slope element below the crest

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