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Cambridge AS & A Level Geography

10.2Processes and landforms in arid environments

Processes and landforms in arid environments in Cambridge AS & A Level Geography: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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Learning objectives

What the syllabus expects you to be able to do.

  1. 10.2.1Explain physical and chemical weathering in arid environments.
  2. 10.2.2Explain wind erosion, transportation and deposition.
  3. 10.2.3Explain fluvial processes, episodic rainfall, sheet floods and flash floods.
  4. 10.2.4Describe and explain wind and water erosional and depositional landforms.

Lessons

  • Arid weathering and wind (aeolian) processes

    45 min

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  • Water processes and arid landforms

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Processes and landforms in arid environments: sample question

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Which landform is a gently sloping bedrock surface at the foot of a desert mountain front?

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