Year 10 work: Tuesday 22nd November PAN

Work for Period 4 and 5 (Y10 Tuesday 22nd November)

Task: You have two hours to complete all the case-study information on flooding. You should have already started this with some work on Boscastle a few lessons back.

Please complete the following on word documents (but also add images, maps etc) and save in your 'geography' folder:

-Information on 3 flooding case-studies: Boscastle, Bangladesh and 1 recent UK Flood (2007-2011)

-Split each case-study into the following sections- Location/ Causes (human and physical)/ Impacts of the flood/ The Responses (solutions) to flooding used.

-make each case-study short and snappy with lot's of facts and figures

-Use the internet to research the floods as well as pages 88-91 of the textbook

-This will be printed off next time we are in U10

Good Luck

Mr Atkinson -at home with a lemsip :(

If you have your headphones then watch these videos from a few years back for inspiration! The first one is very factual whilst the second is more entertaining...click here for videos

NB. The third case-study of a recent UK Flood can be any flood in the UK from 2007. Recent events are the Cumbrian floods around Cockermouth and Workington in 2009, flooding in the Summer of 2007 in all of the UK but especially in Yorkshire and Oxfordshire, due to record rainfall and more flooding in Cornwall in 2010...

Haiti earthquake caused by a 'new fault'

The January earthquake in Haiti which claimed more than 200000 lives and left over 1.5 million homeless was caused by a previously unknown fault line, scientists have reported. (BBC Report)

Pakistan Floods

Floods hit Pakistan

Food Shortage Report

Major flooding has occurred in Pakistan killing over 1400 people. The army is struggling to get aid to people cut-off by the flooding as Monsoon rains continue in South Asia (BBC Report)

Hosepipe ban for NW England

A hosepipe ban is in place in North West England for the first time in 14 years (see bbc report).

It's all going on....

Well the exam season is well and truly upon us in what is the busiest part of the year for the department (hence the lack of new posts recently!) The year 12 students have completed their exams with the physical re-sit last Friday and the Human paper on Tuesday. I am quite pleased with the two exams, especially F762 which was straight forward and hopefully pupils should do well overall. The physical paper threw a few surprises, particularly the essays which were 'very physical' in contrast to the previous exams.

However, for Years 10 and 11 the big exams are still ahead of us:

Monday 14th June Year 11 Paper 1, Year 10 Physical Paper.

Thursday 17th June Year 11 Paper 2

We say goodbye to year 11 on Thursday, but year 10 are reminded that revision sessions continue after school on a Wednesday. This week Mr Barber will take the session on Rivers in U35 from 3.10pm. Bring your revision books.

To cheer you up I have posted a video about FC United...happy days!! It's not geographical but it is History in the making (wink)

Revision this week

This week will see the start of Year 10 revision, and an end to the Year 11 sessions. PAN will take a year 10 revision session on Plate Tectonics in U34, and MKT will be finishing off the Year 11 Map Skills topics in U35.
Next week the Year 12 sessions will start on a Tuesday and a Thursday from 3.05 until 4.00. looking at Energy, Tourism and Rural Change. Can't wait!

Icelandic Volcanoes

Volcanic eruption halts all UK flights

A Volcano has erupted in Iceland, and has led to all flights in and out of the UK being cancelled until 18.00 GMT. The eruption has led to an enormous amount of ash entering into the atmosphere that can be potentially hazardous to aircrafts. Experts have warned that tiny particles of rock, glass and sand contained in Volcanic ash can be hazardous to aircrafts.

BBC report

Coasts: The Green Bridge of Wales

The fantastic picture above is a famous natural arch in Pembrokeshire, South Wales. It is known as the Green Bridge of Wales and was formed through erosion of the cliff face by destructive waves. The photo shows all the features that you would be expected to label in a fieldsketch; an arch, stack, stumps, wave-cut notch and wave-cut platform.

The video shows the waves crashing against the cliff. The processes of erosion such as Hydraulic Action and Abrasion have helped to create the features. Hydraulic Action is when the waves get into cracks in the cliff, compressing the air and creating tiny explosions, weakening and eroding the rock. Abrasion uses any small pieces of rock and crashes them against the cliff, and is a powerful form of erosion.

8.8. Earthquake hits Chile

Bangladesh Flooding: The Causes

Song for Haiti

The REM classic 'Everybody Hurts' recorded by a range of stars to raise money for the victims of the Haiti earthquake

Girl pulled from Haiti rubble 15 days after the Earthquake

Report and Video A teenage girl has been rescued from the rubble an amazing 15 days after the Haiti Earthquake. She was pulled out be a French rescue team to chanting and clapping by gathered crowds. Rescuers said that she survived by drinking water from a bath!

List of survivors:

Darlene Etienne, 16 - rescued after 15 days

Rico Dibrivell, early 30s - rescued after 12 days

Wismond Exantus, 24, found after 11 days

Emmannuel Buso, 21 - rescued after 10 days

Marie Carida, 84 - saved after 10 days

Mendji Bahina Sanon, 11 - trapped for eight days

Lozama Hotteline, 25 - pulled out after seven days

Elisabeth Joassaint, 15 days - buried for seven days, half her life

Ena Zizi, 69 - rescued after seven days

Haiti Earthquake Latest

This is Haiti a week after the 7.0 earthquake.

The rescue teams are returning home and more aid is arriving.

The looting has continued as the population has become even more desperate.

Thousands of people have been left homeless and many without

food and water.

6.2 Aftershock shakes Haiti

The BBC Reports that a 6.2 Magnitude earthquake has hit Haiti, only a week after the 7.0 magnitude 'quake caused devestation on the Island. More news to follow...

Boscastle Flood 2004

This amazing flash flood footage is from Boscastle, Cornwall in 2004. 1 months worth of rainfall fell in only 2 hours triggering a FLASH FLOOD. The impermeable soil around Boscastle, combined with steep slopes surrounding the village created a very rapid lag-time as the rainfall entered the river almost immediately once the soils were saturated. This footage shows the speed of the flood.

Coastal Erosion

Coastal erosion is similar to river erosion as there are 4 ways that the waves erode the coast: Hydraulic Action, Abrasion, Attrition and Solution (see above).

The rate of Coastal erosion depends upon a number of factors relating to the rock. Some rocks are more resistant and are not eroded as quickly, such as granite in Cornwall, whereas softer rocks such as boulder clay on the Holderness coast can be eroded rapidly. Also, the structure of the rock is important as rocks which have natural weaknesses along faults, joints or bedding planes will be eroded quicker than rocks which are just massive blocks.

UK 2007 floods cost the economy £3.2 Billion

The (BBC Reports) that the Environment Agency states that the 2007 UK floods cost the economy an astonishing £3.2 billion.

It also calculates that investment in flood defences will need to almost double, to £1bn a year, to protect properties in the future.

48, 000 homes were affected, each costing between £20,000 and £30,000 to repair. The cost for flooded businesses varied between £75,000 and £112,000. Farmers lost an average of £1,150 per hectare of land flooded, whilst the damage to infrastructure such as roads and power supplies was put at £660 million.

The high costs of flooding underline the importance for continued investment in reducing flood risk Robert Runcie, Environment Agency

Haiti Earthquake 2010

The damage in Haiti has been described as 'Apocalyptic' as the vast majority of buildings have been destroyed in the near the epicentre to the west of the capital Port-au-Prince.



Why did it happen? The video below explains the plate tectonics...



The world responds...As a result of the chaos and desperation being felt by people, looting has become a problem as people search for food and water as well as taking advantage of goods left unguarded after shops collapsed in the capital during the quake. Yesterday saw reports of a violent mob of up to 1000 people looting premises, taking anything they could carry away.



Here an American helicopter is seen dropping aid into a crowd of desperate people...

Amy Kelsall...

has found this website (s-cool) and would like to share it with you all...she thinks the diagrams are better than the ones I use!!

Look at these ox-bow lakes..do you honestly think they are better (click here). OK they probably are...very good explanations of transportation...