Key Stage 4 - GCSE Hotlinks
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| Unit 3. People and their Needs | The Global Environment: | ||||||||||||||
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Mountain Maker, Earth Shaker (Good overview of Plate Tectonics)
World-wide Earthquake Locator (Edinburgh Earth Observatory)
The British Geological Survey's Earthquake Page
San Francisco Museum - the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes
The San Andreas Fault - earthquake maps and information
A journey down the Los Angeles River
Case Study - The Holderness Coast
Dunwich Fieldwork (Department Site)
US Census Database (generate examples of population pyramids for most countries)
Latest population figures for any country
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
Cities of Today, Cities of Tomorrow
Interactive Land-use Model (St Ivo Geography Department)
Shopping
Meadowhall Shopping Centre, Sheffield.
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)
Lessons from the Green Revolution
Store Wars (fun cartoon related to organic farming)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
International Geothermal Association
RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT & THE LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS
Mining / Quarrying
The Causes of Deforestation (Rainforest Information Centre)
Exxon Valdez Oil Disaster - Links Page
The Official Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Web
Photographs of major oil spills
Acid Rain
Swedish NGO Secretariat on Acid Rain
Canadian Government Agency - Acid Rain - Frequently Asked Questions
Greenhouse Effect / Global Warming
The Science behind Global Warming
The US Environmental Protection Agency Global Warming Site
The Union of Concerned Scientists Global Warming Site
The Impact of Human Activities on the Environment