Biome case studies

Unit 4 requires one forest case study and one grassland case study. We are going to use Tropical Rainforest and Temperate Grasslands (steppes).

Complete the notes sheets on each biome using the resources I have already given you and the following links which may be useful:

Tropical Rainforest

A nice site with video

Blue Planet biomes

Radford University

Rainforest Action Network

Temperate Grasslands

A nice site with video

Blue Planet biomes

Radford University

University of California

National Centre for Ecological Analysis

Global Warming Quiz

So, you think you know all about 'Global Warming' then? Try this short and informative quiz to see if you have got things right...

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobWarmTest/start.html

Migrations

We need to study a number of case studies of migrations for the AS exam. you have already looked at rural to urban migration in Zimbabwe and the movement of Poles into the UK.

Create your own case study notes on the following further examples:

Urban to rural movements (counter urbanisation): London

p234 in Advanced Geography

Movement from poverty: Mexico to USA

p230 in Advanced Geography

GeoFactsheet 'Migration case studies'

Voluntary migration

Modern studies link

Daily commuting: London

A briefing from the GLA about the numbers commuting in London

Long distance commuting: Australia

GeoFactsheet 'Migration case studies'

Leaflet produced showing the sustainability issues associated with FIFO

Problems of air strikes

Forced migration: Kurds

GeoFactsheet 'World of refugees'

History of conflict in the region

Kurdish refugees

Global Climate Change

This week sees the launch of the 13th UN Climate Change Conference in Bali. Politicians and activists are meeting to discuss the next steps in the battle against global warming. Clearly there is lots of information on the web relating to this event.

An excellent animated guide to the science is here and there are many other animations of the science of climate change.


The impact of climate change on temperatures and on sea ice is well documented. The Met Office has the clearest models.


We can see how we can reduce our carbon dioxide emissions by looking at the information from the Energy Saving Trust and reading the information provided by the government advisory centre.

Population change

I haven't posted for a while as we have been busy looking after our own little 'natural increase' over the last two weeks!

Shell have just begun studying population. The web has an number of interesting population clocks which track total population in the world and the US.

The wikipedia article is a great place to start any research. It includes the interesting fact that the estimates for how many humans have ever lived range from 45 billion to 125 billion.