BSL Glossary - Geography curriculum terms

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Subject categories

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Ash Bedding Coal Conservative Plate Constructive Plate Contact Metamorphism Copper Core Crater Cross-section Crust Destructive Plate (see Subduction) Dick petrographical microscope Earthquake Epicentre Eruption Cloud Fault Field Sketch Fossil Fossil Fuel Fracking Gas Geology Gold Igneous Rock Impermeable Iron Lahar Landslide Lava Magma Magma Chamber Mantle Metamorphic Rock Oil Permeable Petrographical microscope Plate Tectonics Polarised light Polarisers Porous Pyroclastic Density Current Regional Metamorphism Rock Sedimentary Rock Silver Subduction/Destructive Plate Subduction zone Transect Tsunami Volcanic Eruption Volcano Volcano Rim
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Attributes Attributes Table Basemap Bathymetry Cartesian Coordinates System Cartography Choropleth Map Continuous Data Database Datum Digital Elevation Model Dimensions Discrete Data Draping Ellipsoid Generalisation Geodatabase Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Geoid Geostationary Satellites Hillshading Line Nadir Pixel Point Polygon Resolution Surface Terrain Uncertainty Viewshed Volume Zenith
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Abrasion Antarctic Arête Corrie Freeze-Thaw Weathering Glaciation Glacier Hanging Valley Ice Sheet Moraine Perma-Frost Plucking Pyramidal Peak Ribbon Lake Scree Tarn Terminal Moraine Truncated Spurs U-shaped Valley
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Compass Contours Eastings Equator Escarpment Grid Reference Key Latitude Longitude Map Map text Mountain North Pole Northings Plateau Scale South Pole Summit Symbols Text (map) Topography Tropic of Cancer (Area) Tropic of Cancer (latitude) Tropic of Capricorn (area) Tropic of Capricorn (latitude) Tropics
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Abrasion Attrition Catchment Area/Drainage Basin Confluence Corrosion Delta Deposition Drought Erosion Estuary Flash Flood Flood Flood Plain Meander Ox-bow Lake Plunge Pool Reservoir River River Mouth River Source Saltation Silt Suspension Traction Tributary V-shaped Valley Water Cycle Waterfall Watershed
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Air Pressure Cirrus Clouds Climate Climate Change Cold Front Cumulus Clouds Cumulonimbus Clouds Gordon Dobson's original ozone spectrograph Humidity Hurricane Isobar Meteorology Monsoon Precipitation Rainfall Stratus Clouds Tornado Tropical Storm Typhoon Warm Front Weather Wind speed

Earthquake Petrographical microscope Polarised light Dick petrographical microscope Polarisers Focus (Earthquake) Seismograph Seismometer Seismic waves
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Geology - Cross Section Example Geology - Dessicated Rock Example Geology - Erratic Rock, Terminal Moraine Example Geology - Field Sketch Example Geology - Geological map of UK, Rocks Example Geology - Igneous Rock - Lava Rock - Pumice Rock - Volcanic Dust or Ash Example Geology - Landslide Example Geology - Lava Rock Example Geology - Metamorphic Rock Geology - Ripples on Rock Example Geology - Sedimentary Rock - Laboratory Example Geology - Sedimentary Rock - Fieldwork Example Geology - Volcano (Extinct) Example Glaciers - Corrie Example Glaciers - Scree Example Glaciers - U-Shaped Valley And Loch Example Maps - Map Reading Example Maps - Contours - Black Hill Edinburgh Example Maps - Escarpment - Forest River Reservoir Dams Mapreading Example Maps - Grid Reference - Grid Area - Northings - Eastings Example Maps - Key Or Legends - Symbols Example Maps - Map And Scale Example Maps - Upland Glaciated Area Map - Arêtes Corries Scree Mountains Ribbon Loch Rivers Example Maps - Scale Example Maps - Topography Example Maps - U-Shaped Valley - Hanging Valley Foinaven Area Example Rivers - A River's Journey - Source, V-Valley, Tributary, Confluence Example Rivers - Confluence Example Rivers - Eddy River with Victoria Finn Example Rivers - Erosion, Abrasion and the Start of a Meander Example Rivers - Erosion Example Rivers - Estuary Example Rivers - Flood Example Rivers - Meander Example Rivers - Ox-bow Lake Example Rivers - Reservoir Example Rivers - River Mouth into a Loch Example Rivers - River Mouth into a Firth Example Rivers - Waterfall Rivers - Waterfall - One of the 4 Waterfalls in Brecon Beacons National Park Clun-Gwyn Example Rivers - Waterfall - One of the 4 Waterfalls in Brecon Beacons National Park with Janet Wardle-Peck Example Rivers - Waterfall (Pentlands) Example Weather - Cirrus and Cumulus Clouds Example

A to Z of Geography Signs

Abrasion (glaciers) Abrasion (rivers) Air Pressure Antarctic Arête Ash Attributes Attributes Table Attrition
Basemap Bathymetry Bedding
Cartesian Coordinates System Cartography Catchment Area Choropleth Map Cirrus Clouds Climate Climate Change Coal Cold Front Compass Confluence Conservative Plate Constructive Plate Contact Metamorphism Continuous Data Contours Copper Core Corrie Corrosion Crater Cross-section Crust Cumulonimbus Clouds Cumulus Clouds
Database Datum Delta Deposition Destructive Plate (see Subduction) Dick petrographical microscope Digital Elevation Model Dimensions Discrete Data Gordon Dobson's original ozone spectrograph Drainage Basin (Catchment Area) Draping Drought
Earthquake Eastings Ellipsoid Epicentre Equator Erosion Eruption Cloud Escarpment Estuary
Fault Field Sketch Flash Flood Flood Flood Plain Focus (Earthquake) Fossil Fossil Fuel Fracking Freeze-Thaw Weathering
Gas Generalisation Geodatabase Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Geoid Geology Geostationary Satellites Glaciation Glacier Gold Gordon Dobson's original ozone spectrograph Grid Reference
Hanging Valley Hillshading Humidity Hurricane
Ice Sheet Igneous Rock Impermeable Iron Isobar
Key
Lahar Landslide Latitude Lava Line Longitude
Magma Magma Chamber Mantle Map Map text Meander Metamorphic Rock Meteorology Monsoon Moraine Mountain
Nadir North Pole Northings
Oil Ox-bow Lake
Perma-Frost Permeable Dick petrographical microscope Petrographical microscope Pixel Plate Tectonics Plateau Plucking Plunge Pool Point Polarised light Polygon Polarisers Porous Precipitation Pyramidal Peak Pyroclastic Density Current
Rainfall Regional Metamorphism Reservoir Resolution Ribbon Lake River River Mouth River Source Rock
Saltation Scale Scree Sedimentary Rock Seismograph Seismometer Seismic waves Silt Silver Source (river) South Pole Stratus Clouds Subduction/Destructive Plate Subduction zone Summit Surface Suspension Symbols
Tarn Terminal Moraine Terrain Text (map) Topography Tornado Traction Transect Tributary Tropic of Cancer (Area) Tropic of Cancer (latitude) Tropic of Capricorn (area) Tropic of Capricorn (latitude) Tropical Storm Tropics Truncated Spurs Tsunami Typhoon
U-shaped Valley Uncertainty
V-shaped Valley Viewshed Volcanic Eruption Volcano Volcano Rim Volume
Warm Front Water Cycle Waterfall Watershed Weather Wind speed
Zenith