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Year 11 Period 3 14/11/08

Hurricane Katrina

 

What happened next?

Your task this lesson is to produce a powerpoint presentation that investigates what happened after hurricane Katrina. You should include:

  • summary of the main impacts
  • what happened during and immediately after the event (short term responses)
  • what happened over the weeks and months after the event (long term responses)
  • criticisms of the responses
  • your opinion about how successful responses to Katrina have been

Use these following links to help:

BBC In-depth report

Wikipedia Katrina page

CNN Katrina report

Guardian Katrina report

Wycombe High school Katrina page

Year 11 HW due 17th Oct 2008

Upload and use the sheet below to help you complete the Mount St Helens case study.

Mt St Helens case study sheet 2

Also if you find the post for January 30th 2008 (look in the archives or click on the ‘volcano’ categories tag) there is an alternative case study sheet and a video you can watch.

What are the effects of climate change?

BBC Interactive MapThe 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click on the image to go to the BBC page.

Year 10 coastal landforms homework

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.

Internet Geography – a simple website

Revision World – another simple website!

Wycombe High School – excellent geographical animations

Year 11 HW – Mount St Helens

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…

Mt St Helens case study sheet

Useful links: good old Wikipedia; an interesting virtual tour of the current crater.

I have also embedded a decent Youtube clip below (sounds like somebody’s school project… take note you lot.)

Year 11 – OCR C Specification

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.

OCR C Geography (Bristol Project)

Year 11 – Homework: Earthquakes in MEDCs and LEDCs

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.

Kobe Case Study Table

Kashmir EQ Case Study Table

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?

Yr 11 Homework – Revise those Plate Margins!

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:

plate margins

DME – Updated powerpoint

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.

Updated DME powerpoint