Extra Reading - Week 2

Year 10 - Biodiversity

2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity. Watch the introduction video and read the 'about' section.

http://www.cbd.int/2010/welcome/

Year 11 - On exam leave

Year 12 - Migration issues Affecting the UK and Europe (becareful of bias in all of the articles)

European Migration: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8536194.stm - also look at the links on the right-hand side.

Illegal Migrants affecting Europe:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markmardell/2009/06/m.html

Asylum Seekers: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/25/asylum-seeker-numbers-fall

http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/Briefingpaper/document/108

Year 13 - Water Quality Issues in Europe
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4534542.stm
http://library.thinkquest.org/26026/World_Outlook/europe_-_major_water_problems.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/contamination-fears-after-leak-from-french-nuclear-waste-plant-863928.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11498884

Year 13 Cold Environments - ANWR (becareful of bias in each site)

http://www.defenders.org/programs_and_policy/habitat_conservation/federal_lands/national_wildlife_refuges/threats/arctic/index.php

http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/ANWR/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4542853/ns/us_news-environment

Yellow River Resources

These links will help!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3937403.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6172360.stm
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/one-third-of-fish-species-in-yellow-river-dead-432776.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/25/water-china

Independent Reading - Week 1

Use the articles and links below to extend your understanding and knowledge - be a better Geographer!

Year 10 Restless Earth: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8510900.stm

Year 11 Controlled Assessment: http://www.happisburgh.org.uk/press/edp161010.html Recent article on the coastal erosion in Norfolk.

Year 12 Population Change: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=950 Excellent up to date info on the changing UK population. Use the menu down the right-hand side for other information on ageing.

Year 13 the Middle East and water: http://cejiss.org/assets/pdf/articles/vol2-2/m.obidallah_water_and_conflict.pdf Academic article written about the importance of water in this region.

Geography in the News:

1) Tourism in Botswana: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/fast_track/9155910.stm

2) Volcano in Indonesia: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11706635

3) Aftermath of Haiti earthquake: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11709101

4) Pakistan floods, 3 months on: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11695629

Superpower Theories

https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B4cjglZYANJ9N2EzNzAzZjMtODY5ZS00ZjcwLWIyN2UtNGM5ZjI5ZjU2Y2Zj&hl=en&authkey=CNmAhOsO

Complete the table on the second slide comparing the different theories about how superpowers develop. The rest of the powerpoint will help a little and then your book pages 108 - 110 will also give you some ideas. Towards the end of the powerpoint there are couple of tasks to do to compare how China and India have developed.

Miss H

Neo Colonialism

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=112075

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/08/china-pledges-10bn-loan-africa
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/5673437/India-joins-neocolonial-rush-for-Africas-land-and-labour.html