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Geographical & Environmental Studies - useful websites
Unit 30: CORALS
Coral Biology
Threats to Coral
Threats to coral - general
Reefs
Atolls from space
Case Study
Unit 28 : THE USE AND MISUSE OF NATURAL RESOURCES
Recycling general:
End of Life Directive - vehicles 1
End of Life Directive - vehicles 2
NEDDC Policies:
Derbyshire County Council:
Tyre Recycling:
Paper recycling:
Plastic Recycling:
Glass recycling:
Landfills
Incinerators / Energy From Waste (EFW)
Soil Erosion & Forests
Fossil fuels
Alternative Energy
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter12.html (Hydro Power)
Jatropha bean diesel - D1 plan (bio diesel)
Jatropha bean diesel (bio diesel)
Jatropha bean diesel in India (bio diesel)
Unit 22: Climate & People:
Coriolis animation 3
Weather extremes - world
World Climates - climatographs and examples
Sahel - Government and Disaster (nb interesting but contoversial - use with care!)
1947 Winter (nb the chart for 31st January shows the typical situation)
1953 Floods: Netherlands (nb note the response in terms of coastal defences)
1963 Winter 2 (nb describes pressure systems)
2005 Birmingham Tornado 3 (nb descibes conditions that might have triggered the event)
BACK UP STUFF
Satellite images of the weather (you need to register to see the best ones) : http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/login.html (mainly UK centred images)
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/images/extratrop-uk-20001030-n14rgb.jpg (NOAA pics - mainly US centred images)
Local weather : http://www.buxtonweather.co.uk/
Dew point: http://www.usatoday.com/weather/whumdef.htm
Rain caused by hills: http://www.azcentral.com/weather/weavideos.html
- click on azcentral.com then on "how the monsoon works" (nb this is an explanation of seasonal rainfall - not the SE Asia monsoon)
Coriolis force diagrams: http://www.windpower.org/en/tour/wres/coriolis.htm
Unit 20: SYSTEMS
Ecosystems
Tropical Rain Forests
Geophysical Cycles
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Unit 26: RIVERS & WATER POLLUTION
Physical features:
Ox-Bow Lake animation
Flooding:
Sustainability:
River Water Quality:
Water Pollution - the Sandoz disaster & the Rhine
Water Pollution - other rivers
River Regimes
Unit 3O: CORALS
Coral Biology
Threats to Coral
Threats to coral - general
Threats to coral - anti-fouling paint 1
Reefs
Case Study
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Unit 24: GLOBAL ISSUES
Global Warming:
Desertification & Soil Erosion:
Soil erosion & human activity (nb focussed on the bad news!)
China:
China - Fat Choy (Facai)1
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