Case Study Revision Notes

withernsea-coastal-protection.doc

ukdroughtcasestudy.doc

the-formation-of-waterfalls.doc

spurn-point-case-study.doc

river-tay-case-study.doc

nile-delta.doc

nile-conflict.doc

mississippi-flooding.doc

grand-canyon.doc

flamborough-head-case-study.doc

drought-in-the-sahel.doc

drought-in-ethiopia.doc

change-in-water-supply-ledc-libya.doc

carsington.doc

bangladesh-flood-2.doc

bangladesh-1998-flood.doc

need a break from revising?

Okay, I shouldn’t be encouraging this, but we all need to reward ourselves and this Climate Change Pentathlon game is educational and you may learn something.

Case Study Revision

the-climate-of-the-british-isles.docsalcey-forest.doc

rainforest-case-study-notes.doc

korup-national-park.doc

hurricane-mitch.doc

hurricane-mitch-ledc.doc

hurricane-katrina.doc

how-is-the-amazon-rainforest-used-by-people-info-sheet.doc

equatorial-climate.doc

britains-weather.doc

biomes.doc

a-tale-of-two-anticyclones-1995-medc.doc

Geography Paper 1/2 Monday 4th June

The first exam will have 6 questions - you will have to choose 3 questions, 1 from each section.  The three topics are:

• People, Work and Development (industry, jobs, aid and development)
• Climate, Environment and People (weather, climate, ecosystems)
• Water, Landforms and People (water supply, rivers and coasts)

Supermarket Sweep

You may remember in class we looked at Tesco and how they are a UK based Transnational company who are looking to expand their market abroad. Here is the powerpoint that I showed in the lesson tesco-round-the-world.ppt

Here is a website which is very anti-Tesco.  See if you can highlight the main reasons why they are so against a UK company which has been so successful worldwide.

There are numerous articles on the BBC website including this one where Tesco were refused permission to expand one of their stores leaving some of the locals elated and this one about the measures that Tesco is willing to go to in order to open new stores and win over new customers including rebuilding the local fire station, providing valuable parking and rebuilding a local community centre.

Other BBC stories about shopping include: 

• Global Growth
• Indian supermarkets
• Supermarket monopoly
• A new Tesco in Ilkeston - good or bad?
• What do supermarkets offer us?
• What’s in a doughnut?
• What makes an ideal OFT site? - some info here about greenfield vs brownfield developments
• Why have people changed their shopping habits?

Kobe Earthquake

Here is a podcast about the Kobe Earthquake 1995.

7.2 on the Richter Scale

Happened in Souther Japan

Bangladesh Cyclones

Another podcast about the 1991 cyclone and the floods that followed.

Key ideas about Bangladesh:

• Very low lying (>70% of land less than 1m above sea level)
• Close to the equator so temperatures are high >27 degrees and the perfect temperature for tropical storms to form
• 3 large rivers have their confluence in central Bangladesh - The Brahmaputra, Ganges and Meghna
• As an LEDC they can’t afford the flood prevention methods that would help them to deal with living in an area prone to floods although simple methods like building earthen embankments (levees) and planting mangrove trees are helping to protect the villages.
• There are poor communication methods so people are not aware that there will be flooding - families do not have tv or radio.
• Farmers welcome the floods because they provide valuable alluvium (silt) for the land.
• The flooding is being made worse by deforestation on the Himalayas so there is less interception and storage of rainwater.
• As the earth’s temperature rises and sea levels rise the impact of flooding on Bangladesh is expected to worsen.