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Geography Term 1 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Ethanol
        
        Definition: ethanol is an alcohol formed by fermentation and can be used as a replacement for, or additive to, gasoline
      - Biodiesel
        
        Definition: Biodiesel is produced by extracting naturally occurring oils from plants and seeds. Biodiesel can be combusted in diesel engines. There is a range of different machinery that have diesel engines.
  - - - Define: The amount of dissolved salts that are present in water. Sodium and chloride are the predominant ions in seawater, and the concentrations of magnesium, calcium, and sulfate ions are also substantial.
      - Example: salt lakes, salt pans, salt marshes and salt flats.
    - - Define: Land degradation is a natural or human-induced process that negatively affects the land. In general, it refers to the processes that negatively affect the land's natural functions of water, energy, and nutrient acceptance, storage, and recycling, leading to a decline in land productivity.
      - Example: When fertile soils rot away
    - - Define: The process by fertile land turns into a desert.
      - Example: drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.
- - - - Example- living and nonliving things that an organism interacts with, or has an effect on it.
      - Define- How the environment around us is used.
    - - Example- Location, organisation, spatial distribution
      - define-The area or space around you
    - - Example- 1cm:200,00M
      - Define- the size of an object on a map
    - - Example- Local, National, International
      - Define- When one thing connects to another thing
    - - Define- How sustainable something is that is being used
      - Example-Having an electric car instead of a gas car
    - - Example- School
      - Define- Attachment that you have to a place
    - - Example- Humans building a city and breaking forests
      - Define- Changing or altering something
- - - - Define- Arctic biomes are normally cold and dry with very little rainfall nd cold weather all year round.
      - Example- Antarctica
    - - Define- Grasslands are areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses. However, sedge and rush can also be found along with variable proportions of legumes, like clover, and other herbs. Grasslands occur naturally on all continents except Antarctica
      - Example- North America in the United States, in Southeast South America in Uruguay and Argentina, and in Asia along the southern portion of Russia and Mongolia.
    - - Define- Rainforests are large areas of land filled with trees and animals. It is normally wet and humid with hot dry seasons and wet and humid wet seasons.
      - Example- The Amazon Rainforest
    - - Define- Barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground.
      - Example- The Sahara desert
    - - Define- Tundra is a vast, flat and treeless arctic region in which the subsoil is permanently frozen (permafrost).
      - Examples- Tundra can be found in Europe, Asia and North America