goegraphy vocab
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- confluence
- the point where 2 rivers meet
- Estuary
- the mouth of the river where it widens to meet the sea
- Alluvium
- material deposited by a river on its flood plain
- Sustainability
- using resources in a way that they will not run out
- Delta
- the area draied by a river and its tributaries
- Slum
- An area ina n LEDC where people illegally make their own homes
- Primay economic activity
- has to do with extractive work. i.g. coal mining, farming,fonestry and quarrying
- secondary
- this has to do with job requiring some skills i.g. manufacturing
- tertiary
- this requires a lot of intellectual skillz lk lawyers(4 shizzle)! soz and doctors
- A nucleate settlement
- buildings clustered around a central point. i.g. bridge
- plucking
- when meltwater under a glacier freezes on to the rock surface and fragments of rock are pulled away as it moves