OCR GCSE Geography B key terms

The rolling or sliding of large particles along the bed by moving water.

The exchange of goods and services; international trade takes place between countries.

The tropical surface winds that generally blow from east to west.

A written record of spoken responses, such as an interview.

A line across an area along which information is collected or displayed to show changes with distance.

A business that operates in more than one country.

The release of water vapour from plants through their leaves.

The movement of sediment or dissolved material by water.

An overall pattern of increase, decrease or stability in a dataset.

A line drawn to represent the overall pattern of points on a scatter plot.

An organised, rotating low-pressure weather system that develops over warm tropical oceans and produces strong winds and heavy rainfall.

A cold, treeless environment with low-growing vegetation and a short growing season, often underlain by permafrost.

The number of deaths of children before their fifth birthday per 1,000 live births.

Consistently obtaining too little food energy to meet the body's needs.

Differences in economic prosperity and people's quality of life between places.

An area of relatively high land, often with steep slopes, hills or mountains.

The movement of colder water from deeper in the ocean towards the surface.

A space in a town or city used to grow food, such as a domestic garden, school garden or shared community plot.

An increase in the population or built-up area of a town or city.

An increase in the proportion of a population living in towns and cities.

Investment to improve a declining urban area through refurbishment, redevelopment or rebuilding.

The outward spread of a built-up urban area into surrounding land.

The wearing away of a river's bed, deepening its channel.

The stretching of the height scale relative to the horizontal distance scale on a cross-section, making relief more noticeable.

A measure of a fluid’s resistance to flowing: high-viscosity lava is sticky, while low-viscosity lava is runny.

An opening in the Earth’s crust through which lava, gases and other volcanic material erupt.

A feature of the Earth’s crust through which magma erupts onto the surface as lava, often building up a mountain from erupted material.