Key Stage 4 - GCSE Hotlinks

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Unit 1. People and the Physical World Unit 4. People and the Environment 
bullet Plate Tectonics
bullet Rivers
bulletCoasts
Resources Development and the Local Environments:
bullet Mining / Quarrying
bullet Tropical Rainforests
bullet National Parks
bullet Water pollution
Unit 2. People and Places to Live
bullet Population 
bullet Settlement
Unit 3. People and their Needs The Global Environment:
bullet Quality of Life
bulletEconomic Activities
bullet Farming 
bullet Industry
bullet Energy
bullet Acid Rain
bullet Global Warming

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plate Tectonics

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Mountain Maker, Earth Shaker (Good overview of Plate Tectonics)

General Earthquakes

World-wide Earthquake Locator (Edinburgh Earth Observatory)

Earthquake Preparedness 

The British Geological Survey's Earthquake Page

San Francisco Museum - the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes

The San Andreas Fault - earthquake maps and information

Volcano World

Volcano Links 

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Rivers

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A journey down the Los Angeles River

International Rivers Network

Anglian Water

Types of Flood

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Coasts

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Longshore Drift

Case Study - The Holderness Coast

Dunwich Fieldwork (Department Site)

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Population

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US Census Database (generate examples of population pyramids for most countries)

Latest population figures for any country

6 Billion Human Beings

Population Concern

Population and Migration (BBC News Articles) - very comprehensive

 

CHINA's ONE CHILD POLICY LINKS:

China's One Child Rule (About.com)

China steps up One Child Policy (BBC News)

China's One Child Policy enters a New Phase (People and Planet.net)

A Generation of Little Emperors (TIME)

Chinese are Happily breaking the One Child Rule (New York Times)

China's Population Pyramids - Projections

China fears crime wave of one-child generation

China to relax disastrous One-Child Policy

Chinese town expels 906 families for overbreeding

Defector reveals the horror China's One Child Law

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Settlement

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Cities of Today, Cities of Tomorrow

Urban Land Use Model

Information on Favelas

Interactive Land-use Model (St Ivo Geography Department)

Docklands

Glasgow Urban Development

World Cities Photo Archive

 

Shopping

British Retail Consortium 

Meadowhall Shopping Centre, Sheffield.

Bluewater Shopping Centre

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Quality of Life

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GapMinder

 

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Economic Activities

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Farming

NFU Farm Studies

Farming and Countryside Education (For examples of commercial arable farming (Lynford House Farm) and subsistence rice farming (the Philippines) see the farm profiles part of the site)

The Green Revolution in India

Lessons from the Green Revolution

Store Wars (fun cartoon related to organic farming)

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Industry

Cambridge Science Park

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Energy

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Energy Quest

Energy Saving Trust

Centre for Renewable Energy

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

International Geothermal Association

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RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT & THE LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS

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Mining / Quarrying

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Rainforests

Rainforest Map

Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Alliance

Rainforest Satellite Images

Why Save the Rainforests?

Amazon Life

Structure of a Rainforest

Rates of Rainforest Loss

The Causes of Deforestation (Rainforest Information Centre)

Ecotourism - a way forward

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National Parks

National Parks

Peak District National Park

Council for National Parks

Countryside Agency

British Tourist Authority

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Water Pollution

Exxon Valdez Oil Disaster - Links Page

The Official Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Web

The Sea Empress Disaster

Photographs of major oil spills

Oil Pollution

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The Global Environment

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Acid Rain

Acid Rain (General)

Swedish NGO Secretariat on Acid Rain

Canadian Government Agency - Acid Rain - Frequently Asked Questions

Internet Geography

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Greenhouse Effect / Global Warming

Global Warming and the Future

The Science behind Global Warming

The US Environmental Protection Agency Global Warming Site

The Union of Concerned Scientists Global Warming Site

Global Warming

The Impact of Human Activities on the Environment

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