Ok kids, slight hitch – the video file was too large to upload! So if you follow the link below you should find a page with some video links (it’s he sight of Millfield School). Scroll down the list to the Nairobi.wmv file, and watch the film.
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.
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…
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.
Make sure that you have completed the case study sheet on the 1980 eruption of Mt St Helens by next wednesday. The sheet is available to download below for those of you who have lost it…
As promised, here is a link to the exam board (OCR) specification that you are studying. As you will see there are some past-papers with mark schemes that you may want to download for revision purposes.
Your HW this week is to compare and contrast the two earthquake case studies we have investigated: Kobe (1995) and Kashmir (2005). If you did not complete the case study sheet, have lost it or were away, you can upload both below.
You can use the PPT text book for information anbout Kobe. For Kashmir, follow this link to a useful Wikipedia page, or this one to the BBC.
The homework itself was to compare the imapct of earthquake hazards in MEDCs and LEDCs. You need to answer the following questions in detail (remember to EXPLAIN/GIVE REASONS):
1. Compare and contrast the similarities and differences between, causes, primary and secondary effects, and responses to the earthquakes in Kobe and Kashmir.
2. Where are the effects of earthquakes greatest, MEDCs or LEDCs?
Your homework this week was to ensure that you had labelled diagrams of each of the 4 main tectonic plate margins – Constructive, Destructive (subduction and collision) and Conservative. You also needed to explain for each the associated landforms and hazards. The work can be completed on the downloadable sheet below:
I have attached a link to this post for the most recent version of the DME powerpoint we have been using in class. This version includes the maps and aerial photo’s of Robin Hood Airport. These allow you to see the locational context of the airport – and what it might affect if it is developed further. Make sure you use these to see which urban areas the airport might serve and which smaller villages are likely to be most affected.
