M is for Moraine
Magnitude: this is the amount of energy released by the event
Managed retreat: allowing controlled flooding of low-lying coastal areas or cliff collapse in areas where the value of the land is low
Mantle: the dense mostly solid layer between the outer core and the crust
Manufacturing: the process of making a product from raw materials
Marginal land: land that is only just good enough to be worth farming. It may be dry, wet, cool, stony or steep
Marine processes: processes operating upon a coastline that are connected with the sea, such as waves, tides and longshore drift
Maritime influence: the influence of the sea on climate
Mass movement: the downhill movement of material under the influence of gravity
Mass tourism: tourism on a large scale to one country. Lots of people going to the same place for the same reason at the same time. This equates to the Development and Consolidation phases of the Butler tourist resort life-cycle model
Meanders: bends in the river
Mechanical weathering: a process where physical forces break down or reduce rock fragments
Mechanisation: machine replacing people. This can happen in manufacturing and farming
Megacity: a city with more than 10,000,000 people living in it
Mercalli scale: a means of measuring earthquakes by describing and comparing the damage done on a scale of I to XII
Metamorphic rocks: rocks formed when the chemistry and texture have been changed because of heating and/or pressure
Migration: the movement of people from one permanent home to another, with the intention of staying at least a year. This move may be within a country (national migration) or between countries (international migration)
Mixed farming: farming both crops and animals
Mouth: where the river meets the sea/at the end of the river
Moraines: made up of angular material from erosion, deposition, after the ice age ·
Terminal moraines: largest type of moraine deposited at the end f the glacier showing the largest advance of the glacier
Lateral moraines: formed at the sides of a glacier high up on the valley side
Medial moraines: formed when two or more glaciers meet
Ground moraines: deposited randomly as the glacier melts on the valley floor
Morbidity: the death of people. It is measured by a number of indices including death rate, infant mortality, case mortality and attack rate
Multilateral aid: richer countries give money to international organisations such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the United Nations (UN), which pass it on to development projects in countries at lesser stages of development
Multinational aid: development funding that is sent from several countries, usually to a group of poor countries. I is usually channelled through an organisation such as the UN or the World Bank
Multinational corporation (or transnational corporation) (MNC/TNC): a company that operates in more than one country. They could have production in more than two poor countries or services in two rich countries
Multiplier effect: where initial investment and jobs lead to a knock-on effect, creating further jobs and providing money to generate services
Managed retreat: allowing controlled flooding of low-lying coastal areas or cliff collapse in areas where the value of the land is low
Mantle: the dense mostly solid layer between the outer core and the crust
Manufacturing: the process of making a product from raw materials
Marginal land: land that is only just good enough to be worth farming. It may be dry, wet, cool, stony or steep
Marine processes: processes operating upon a coastline that are connected with the sea, such as waves, tides and longshore drift
Maritime influence: the influence of the sea on climate
Mass movement: the downhill movement of material under the influence of gravity
Mass tourism: tourism on a large scale to one country. Lots of people going to the same place for the same reason at the same time. This equates to the Development and Consolidation phases of the Butler tourist resort life-cycle model
Meanders: bends in the river
Mechanical weathering: a process where physical forces break down or reduce rock fragments
Mechanisation: machine replacing people. This can happen in manufacturing and farming
Megacity: a city with more than 10,000,000 people living in it
Mercalli scale: a means of measuring earthquakes by describing and comparing the damage done on a scale of I to XII
Metamorphic rocks: rocks formed when the chemistry and texture have been changed because of heating and/or pressure
Migration: the movement of people from one permanent home to another, with the intention of staying at least a year. This move may be within a country (national migration) or between countries (international migration)
Mixed farming: farming both crops and animals
Mouth: where the river meets the sea/at the end of the river
Moraines: made up of angular material from erosion, deposition, after the ice age ·
Terminal moraines: largest type of moraine deposited at the end f the glacier showing the largest advance of the glacier
Lateral moraines: formed at the sides of a glacier high up on the valley side
Medial moraines: formed when two or more glaciers meet
Ground moraines: deposited randomly as the glacier melts on the valley floor
Morbidity: the death of people. It is measured by a number of indices including death rate, infant mortality, case mortality and attack rate
Multilateral aid: richer countries give money to international organisations such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the United Nations (UN), which pass it on to development projects in countries at lesser stages of development
Multinational aid: development funding that is sent from several countries, usually to a group of poor countries. I is usually channelled through an organisation such as the UN or the World Bank
Multinational corporation (or transnational corporation) (MNC/TNC): a company that operates in more than one country. They could have production in more than two poor countries or services in two rich countries
Multiplier effect: where initial investment and jobs lead to a knock-on effect, creating further jobs and providing money to generate services
Interesting Geographical fact
Glaciers store between 70%
and 80% of all the freshwater on the planet. 99% of those glaciers are
in the Arctic and Antarctic.