Mammoth Memory

Geography Flash Cards

Here's a really quick way of testing if you've learned the meanings of the key words in this section. Look at the key word on the card and see if you can remember its definition.

If you get stuck, you can be shown the mnemonic to reveal an image that should help you remember.

To check if you're right, or remind you if you've forgotten, press the card to flip it.

Go through the whole list to see how many definitions you can recall. Revisit any that you had difficulty remembering until you're confident you can recall all of them.

The removal of solid mineral resources from the earth
Mineral Extraction
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The cutting out of trees with are mature or inferior to encourage the growth of the remaining trees in a forest or wood
Selective Logging
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Removal of topsoil faster than it can be replaced due to natural action (water and wind), animal and human activity
Soil Erosion
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A type of agriculture producing food and materials for the benefit of the farmer and his family
Subsistence Farming
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Actions and forms of progress that meet the needs of the present without reducing the ability of future generations to meet their needs
 Sustainability
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The variety of life found in deserts that are hot, rather than cold
Hot Deserts Biodiversity
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Technology that is suited to the needs, skills, knowledge and wealth of local people in the environment in which they live
Appropriate technology
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The process by which land becomes drier and degraded as a result of climate change, human actvities, or both
Desertification
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Deserts can vary in temperatures of extreme heat and extreme cold but both have very low rainfall
Hot Deserts and Cold Deserts
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The removal of solid mineral resources from the earth
Hot Deserts Mineral Extraction
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Grazing too many livestock for too long on the land, so it is unable to recover its vegetation
Overgrazing
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The variety of life found in deserts that are cold, rather than hot
Cold Environments Biodiversity
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An environment that is both easily disturbed and difficult to restore if disturbed
Fragile Environment
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The basic equipment and structures (such as roads, utilities, water supply and sewage) that are needed for a country or region to function properly
Infrastructure
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The removal of solid mineral resources from the earth
Cold Environments Mineral Extraction
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Permanently frozen ground, found in polar and tundra regions
Permafrost
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The regions of the far North and south
Polar
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The flat, treeless Arctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America, where the ground is permanently frozen. Lichen, moss, grasses and dwarf shrubs can grow
Tundra
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A natural environment that has not been significantly modified by human activity
Wilderness Area
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The movement of eroded material by suspension, solution, traction and saltation caused by longshore drift
Coastal Transportation
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