Hydrological Cycle

Today we looked at residence times and the hydrological cycle.

AS Geography Blogs

The AS Geography Students had their first task today. Create a Geography Blog. Here's a list of some of their attempts so far. Come back and check for frequent updates.

Neil Ashton: NeilGeoBlog
Guilherme Bandeira: Guilhermewb
Sam Barnard: Samsgeogblog
Hannah Crow: Hannah's Blog
Stacey Darrock: Stacesblog
Chris Fryer: FryerGeog
Sean Hawkey: SeanHawkey
Kira Hearn: Geography Blog
Jason Willis: GeogBlog
Jamie Mullis: Geography Stuff
Tom Line: GeographyWizard

Welcome to my AS Geog Students

Hi all you keen geogers!

A great website is the GeographyPages which has lots of resources on a variety of geographical issues.

TASKS

Set up the blog using www.blogger.com

1. River Environments is the first section of the Physical Geography Syllabus.
1. Search for and write a diary of events for Hurricane Katrina
2. See if you can include a photo blog as a section for Hurricane Katrina
3. Make sure you find out the main causes of the Floods in Mississippi as well as the causes of Hurricane Katrina
4. Add a section on the Hydrological Cycle, Residence Times, and the Drainage Basin System
5. Finally add a section of useful geographical websites which you can access from the right

Population

POPULATION

There is a great population clock here.

Here is an interesting article about Russia’s falling population.

TECTONIC LINKS

Tectonics/ Earthquakes/Volcanoes - This is a great site which has a multitude of links

Asian Tsunami - Boxing Day 2004 0059GMT

THE ASIAN TSUNAMI DISASTER

The Asian Tsunami was the result of a large subsea earthquake that occured at 0059 GMT 0659 Local Time on Boxing Day 2004. It was the largest Natural Disaster in modern times causing in excess of 200,000 deaths.

The Best Resource come from the New York Times which has an excellent Interactive Map but you'll need to scroll down half way and find the Multimedia Section.

The BBC has an extensive set of reports including a good animation to show the causes of the Tsunami. There is also a timeline of events as the giant wave crossed the Indian Ocean. The Guardian also has a special Web Report. The CBC has some good multimedia links as well. Tsunami Videos has some amazing footage.

The Early Warning System which may have saved many is costly but being used in Japan

• Location
• Magnitude and impact
• What are Tsunamis and how do we cope?
• The most devastating earthquakes since 1900
• Outline map of Indonesia
• Diagram of Tsunami
• How the shape of ocean floors can affect tsunami
• Idle Tears article
• Indonesia asks for early warning system article
• UN appeal article
• Natural disasters and politics article
• The Effort continues
• World helps but will it forget?

The impacts on the main countries, including excellent satellite images of the can be seen at:

• Indonesia
• Thailand
• Sri Lanka
• India
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands

The free Encyclopaedia Wikipedia has a good list of entries which include descriptions of what a Tsunami is.