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Rainfall

By garikaib|2022-09-15T12:44:50+02:00January 24th, 2023|O Level Geography, Weather and Climate|

Rainfall. Image via the Herald. ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Rainfall.

Rainfall is just one form of precipitation.
Precipitation occurs when warm moist air rises or is forced to rise.
Water vapor in the air parcel cools and condenses to form clouds.
This is because temperature falls with increase […]

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Lava Plateaus

By garikaib|2022-09-15T12:44:27+02:00January 24th, 2023|Landform Studies, Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Fissure eruptions at Mt Nyiragongo. Image credit Imgsoup. ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Lava Plateaus

Lava eruptions through narrow cracks (fissures) tends to be very quiet and subdued.
The lava spreads out over the surrounding countryside.
Successive lava outpourings causes successive layers of lava to […]

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Water in Hot Deserts

By garikaib|2022-09-15T12:44:12+02:00January 24th, 2023|Hot Deserts, Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Flash floods in a desert. Image credit Backroadswest.com ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Water in Hot Deserts

Water action in deserts can be divided into three:
freak storms or rain that falls sometimes in semi-arid regions,
dew which plays formed as a result of temperatures […]

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River rejuvenation

By garikaib|2022-09-15T12:43:56+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes, River Processes|

Paired terraces resulting from rejuvination. Image credit Geographyas.info ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: River Rejuvination

Rejuvenation-occurs when there is a negative change in a river’s base level (i.e. when the river’s base level falls) which increases its potential energy and thus enables it […]

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Orographic/Relief Rainfall

By garikaib|2022-09-15T12:44:49+02:00January 24th, 2023|O Level Geography, Weather and Climate|

Aberfoyle Tea Estate in the Eastern Highlands is one of the places that receive a lot of Relief rainfall. Image Credit Buckinghambirding. Aberfoyle Tea Estate in the Honde Valley Eastern Highlands is one of the places that receive a lot of Relief rainfall. Image Credit Buckinghambirding. ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: […]

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Earthquakes and their causes

By garikaib|2022-09-15T12:44:25+02:00January 24th, 2023|Landform Studies, Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Destruction wreaked by an earthquake. Image credit Telegraph.co.uk ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Earthquakes and their causes

An earthquake is a shaking, vibration, trembling or movement in the earth’s crust.
They are caused by one tectonic plate sliding over or past another plate along […]

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Wadis,Bahadas and the Desert Piedmont zone

By garikaib|2022-09-15T12:44:11+02:00January 24th, 2023|Hot Deserts, Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Alluvial fan/Bajada/Bahada. Image credit MediaWiki ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Wadis and Bahadas

Wadis/Canyons

As already pointed out freak storms occur in deserts characterised by excessive precipitation over short periods of time.
Due to infiltration excess flow and even saturation excess flow there is significant run off in the […]

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Drainage Basin

By garikaib|2022-09-15T12:43:41+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes, River Processes|

The drainage basin. Image credit BBC. ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Drainage Basin

The term drainage basin refers to an area of land drained by a river and its tributaries (river system).
It includes water found in the water table and surface run-off.
The drainage basin is also known […]

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Frontal Systems

By garikaib|2022-09-15T12:44:59+02:00January 24th, 2023|O Level Geography, Weather and Climate|

Weather on a Front. Image by DiyMid. ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Fronts

Fronts

-A front is a boundary between two air masses. Fronts are classified and named according to which air mass is replacing the other.

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Convectional rainfall

By garikaib|2022-09-15T12:44:49+02:00January 24th, 2023|O Level Geography, Weather and Climate|

Convectional Rainfall commonly occurs in rainforests. Image by Wallpaperlepi ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Convectional Rainfall

This is the main type of rainfall in the humid tropics such as the Amazon and Congo rain forests.
Occurs when the ground surface is locally […]

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January 2023