OCR GCSE Geography B key terms

A boundary where plates slide past one another without creating or destroying crust.

A boundary where tectonic plates move apart and new crust forms.

A wave with strong swash and weaker backwash that adds more sediment to a beach than it removes.

The purchase and use of goods, services and resources, including food, clothing, water and energy.

Numerical data that can take any value within a range, such as temperature or river depth.

A line on a map joining points of equal height.

The vertical difference in height between neighbouring contour lines.

A line on a map joining points of equal height above sea level.

A comparison group or site that does not experience the condition being investigated, used to help judge its possible effect.

An extended urban area formed when neighbouring towns and cities grow and join together.

The very slow circulation of mantle material that transfers heat as warmer, less dense material rises and cooler, denser material sinks.

The dense, very hot central region of the Earth, composed mainly of iron and nickel.

The apparent deflection of moving air caused by Earth's rotation, which helps tropical storms rotate away from the equator.

An association between two variables. Positive correlation means they tend to increase together; negative correlation means one tends to decrease as the other increases.

The misuse of an official position or public funds for private benefit.

The movement of people from towns and cities into rural areas.

The amount of a crop produced per unit area of farmland.

A side-view profile showing the height and shape of the land along a selected line.

The thin, solid outermost layer of the Earth.

The effect that a society’s ideas, language, lifestyles and creative products have on people within or beyond that society.

The customs, beliefs, languages, arts and everyday practices shared by a group of people.

The running total of frequencies up to a particular value or class boundary.

A situation in which low incomes limit investment in improvements that could help raise incomes, allowing poverty to continue.

Identifying patterns, differences and relationships in information, supported by evidence.

A prepared form for recording observations or measurements consistently during an investigation.

Organising or calculating with collected information so that it can be compared and interpreted.

The number of deaths per 1,000 people in a population per year.