Think . . . Geography! Year 10 Geography

Welcome! The course is being rewritten this year to prepare for the Revised Curriculum!

1.    What are Natural Hazards?

• Natural Hazard images (PowerPoint)
• Spot the hazard (Picture)

2.    What is a volcano?

• Volcanic cones (PowerPoint)
• Watch the Volcanic eruptions video! 
• Volcano song - storyboard task (PowerPoint)
• Volcano song - video!
• Check out some of the pictures and videos from the volcanoes erupting at Slemish! NEW!

3.    Why did the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz cause so much damage?

• Nevado del Ruiz (PowerPoint)
• Nevado del Ruiz story
• Nevado del Ruiz mystery
• Nevado del Ruiz task

4.    How did Mt St Helens/Mt Etna  erupt?

• Mt St Helens (PowerPoint)
• Mt Etna  (PowerPoint)

5. Year 10 Geography Fieldwork on the Giants Causeway! (Oct 2007 version!)

New Topic!

6. Tourism (click here for the NEW! Tourism information)

7.    Global Warming

        Check out the Global Warming Mini-site!

5 Videos about Global Warming

These five videos have been put togther by students in my Year 10 class as part of a presentation about Global Warming.

8.    Climate

• 3 types of rainfall
• What is an ecosystem?.   

9. Tropical Rainforest

• Rainforest Images Powerpoint
• The Virtual Rainforest PowerPoint
• The Tropical Rainforest
• Rainforest explanation (PowerPoint)
• Tropical Rainforest links!

This is stuff that was on the course last year but was not taught this year!

Plates and movement (These pages are not working at present!)

• Journey to the Centre of the earth
• Smashing Plates
• Smashing Plates Task
• Why not Ballymena?

  What are earthquakes?

• Earthquakes 101 (USGS PowerPoint presentation)
• Newspapers from San Francisco Earthquake 1989
• Newspaper from Indian Earthquake 1991
• Earthquakes guide from the BGS (pdf)
• Strengthen your home for an Earthqake (in LA - pdf)
• Earthquake Safety (PowerPoint)

The Earthquake Investigator

• The Earthquake Investigator Booklet (updated version)
• Help guide for the Earthquake Investigator (updated version)
• Mousemat activity
• Earthquake Response sheet 1
• Earthquake Response sheet 2
• Tectonic Taboo

The Pakistan and India earthquake,  2005

• Pakistan and India earthquake worksheet
• Main Page from the BBC News web site
• Information from the USGS (weblink)
• Information from the British Geological Survey (weblink)
• USGS Earthquakes for kids site
• Muzaffarabad is a ghost town from the dark ages (report)
• Whole generation lost in 'quake (report)
• 140 tremors rock Pakistan (report)

NEW!  Click here to take the Volcanoes, plates and earthquakes online quiz!

What are soils?  

• What is a soil profile?  (PowerPoint slides)

How does Soil Erosion effect us? 

Case Study:  Soil Erosion in Nepal

• Soil erosion in Nepal (PowerPoint) (The old version of this presentation)
• Some reports about Soil erosion in Nepal
• Land degradation in Nepal:  A menace to economy and ecosystems by Krishna Karkee
• Assessment of soil erosion in the Nepalese Himalaya, a case study in Liklu Khola Valley, Middle Mountain Region by Dhruba Pikha Shrestha
• Nepal Biodiversity Strategy by HM Government of Nepal, Ministry of Forests and Soil Conversation
• Click here to see a photo gallery of a few more pictures of erosion in Nepal

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