The BBC has a very good interactive map about the effects of climate change on the planet. It gives you case studies of places and other factors including coasts, industry, food, health and water. It would make an excellent revision aid for GCSE.
Visit the following BBC page: coastal erosion video clips . Watch one of the short video reports on an area of coast affected by erosion and then write a brief summary. Your summary must include:
OK kids, your task is to produce a report entitled: ‘Coastal processes and human activity on the Holderness coast’. Your report needs to explain the processes at work along this stretch of coastline (erosion, transportation and deposition), and the impacts they are having on humans. You then need to find examples of how humans are attempting to stop or manage the effects of these processes. You need to carefull explain these. You also need to include any relevant images/maps – make sure you label them. I suggest that you produce your report as either a word or power point document.
These links should get you started, but there are plenty more resources if you ‘goggle’ Holderness. Hopefully they will all work and not be blocked out by the filter – if so, Google, the BBC (try the news archive) and wikipedia will have enough info to keep you going…
Google maps - zoom in and get great aerial photos
By next Friday (8th Feb) you must ensure that you have completed your annotated diagrams of erosional landforms – caves, arches and stacks; cliffs; headlands and bays. Then I want you to research coastal transportation. You must complete annotated diagrams to explain Longshore Drift and Constructive/Destructive Wave-action. There are some useful links below. Remember, I do not want to see pasted diagrams.
The death toll has now moved into the 1000's in the aftermath of Cyclone Sidr. The category 4 storm devastated the extremely low lying southern coast of Bangladesh - home to over 5 million people - on the night of 15th November. The news report below outlines the main impacts of this storm on the people of Bangladesh. More detail can be found on the BBC news web pages.
