Flood Hydrographs

As we have been doing flood hydrographs in class, I have found this site that has some useful information on it. It includes some of the terminology associated with hydrographs, and also different conditions that might affect them.


Deforestation
This is a news article from the BBC talking about how in one area of the Amazon, the government is fighting back against the cattle ranches who clear the trees for grazing land.

World Water Shortages

As our homework this week was about world water shortages, I found this article which has a lot of useful information on it, including a good chloropleth map.

The Water Budget

Here is a website that has some information about the water budget, including the diagram Mr P had on his powerpoint if its useful.

Flooding in Africa

Recently there has been severe flooding in Ethiopia, after an extreme rainy season. It has gone from one extrem to the other- first it was drought, now flooding. The flooding has affected countries in the Horn of Africa, including Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea. 200, 000 people have been affected in Ethiopia alone. For more information, click here.

Earthweek
Click here for a good website that you can get information on geographical news, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and the world's tallest tree.....

Drainage Basins

Here is a site that has loads of useful information on drainage basins. It has information about their formation and processes taking place in them, among other things. There is also a good diagram and explanation here.

Hydrological Cycle

Here is an animation of the hydrological cycle, with definitions of different terms involved. It even has sound effects! Make sure you go on the flash version.

Polar Bears

Poor polar bears!!!! Here's a reason for us to stop global warming.... the polar bears are drowning! The arcticle talks about how due to melting ice, polar bears are being stranded at sea.

Earthquake in Mexico

An earthquake hit the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, the strongest to hit the southern states of the U.S.A in 33 years. It measured 5 on the Richtor scale, and did little damage. This earthquake was very unusual because it didn't happen on a plate boundary. For more information, click here.

Global Warming

As we know, global warming is a BIG problem, and is continuously in the news. Here are some recent articles that I have found about it. First, here is a good site that has loads of really useful information about global warming in general.
Here is a worrying article explaining that we have only 10 years to start strategies to stop climate change.
According to this article, humans are causing more severe, stronger hurricanes due to our greenhouse gas emmisions.
Take a look at this, which is about the increased flooding risk in the U.K due to global warming.
And for any gardeners out there...... enjoy your lawns and flowerbeds while you've got them!!!
Here is a more unusual article about global warming.... saying that glaciers may actually be growing due to global warming. Wondering how that could happen? Click here!
This website has a satellite image of the arctic ice, showing how much it has melted in just 1 year. Very scary!!!

Water

Here is a random fact about water.... if you were to pour all the water in the world into ordinary one litre milk bottles, you would need 1,397,918,550,000,000,000,000 bottles!!!

World water shortages

If you click here and then click the link on the right for global water shortages warning, there is an interesting BBC news video clip about the effects of a global water shortage.

There is also an interesting article here about global water shortages, and possible solutions.

CHINA
In the northern and western parts of China, people have recently been suffering from a severe drought- the worst in 50 years. In other parts, however, there has been flooding. For more information about the drought, click here.

The 1.3 billion people of the world's most populous country have at their disposal only a quarter of the water per person that is available on average around the world. 19 million people have been affected by the drought, and many are being forced to get water from polluted sources.

If you click here, there is a video clip on the right about the drought in China. The first half is more about the flooding but the second half is about the water shortages and what the government intends to do about it.

Useful links

Here is a good website with everything on it for AS geography.
And here is a good population clock.

Hello and welcome!

Hello!
Welcome to my first entry on my great geography blog! I am going to put loads of links on here for the work we are doing in class.