Australian Bushfires

Currently in Year 11 we're looking at Australian Bushfires. This BBC article looks at the 2005 Bushfires in and around Adelaide.

The National Museum of Australia has an excellent section on Bushfires

Interesting Geo Political Game - Darfur

MTV have hosted an interesting game called Darfur is Dying which is concerned with the genocide that is occuring in Sudan. It has led to over 700,000 people protesting about the appaling conditions that local people have to live under.

The BBC recently wrote an article on it.

Boscastle Floods

New Boscastle Resources..

The environment Agency has produced a couple of resources on their website.

• Living with the Risk - The Floods in Boscastle and North Cornwall 16 August 2004


• Boscastle Findings - A summary

The WWF living planet report 2004

This will help with the cross unit question from Unit 4 Global Challenge 2003 Question 7 all about the Ecological Footprint. It's a detailed living planet report by the WWF from 2004. You could print it off but it's all in colour and 44 pages..

There's also a movie or Flash animation showing how our footprint has changed over time...

Brown Willy Hike

Take A level Geography and you get to climb Brown Willy at the end of the course!!  

The 1991 Bangladesh Cyclone And Its Impacts on Flooding

The 1991 Bangladesh Cyclone And Its Impacts on Flooding

Includes some great info on Land Use Zoning too.

Dhaka

Great satellite images and pics of Dhaka

Something in the Air

Something in the Air this is an interesting page with links to Mexico Air quality and Inversion.

Bodmin College, Cornwall

Bodmin College, Cornwall

This website has the links to the AS blogs

The Hydrologic Cycle

The Hydrologic Cycle

Lucy Davey has found a brilliant Hydrological Cycle Animation with soothing music, and excellent definitions for the processes, inputs and outputs of the Hydrological Cycle.

Kathryn's Geography Blog

Kathryn's Geography Blog

This is the best of my AS geography Blogs so far!

Topical, updated and interesting to read.

I especially like the articles on water shortage in Spain

A2 Natural Hazards

This is a selection of links describing the CAUSES of a variety of Natural Hazards.

Volcanoes

This site has an excellent introduction to Volcanoes and their causes.

 

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.

A2: Global Warming and Greenhouse Effect

Fact or Myth? Cause and Effect. Solutions and Dissolutions.

Project Learn: Cycles of the Earth and Atmosphere -For general information about the atmosphere then this is a fantastic starting point

Remember the Greenhouse Effect is a GOOD thing!

• Greenhouse Effect - Great detailed information here including a good variey of pictures and diagrams
• The BBC - As usual from the Beeb a good basic starting point on the effect but a little watered down