Year 9 GCSE Settlement: How is the pattern of land use within cities changing?

Dom...here you go I put it at the top of my blog just for you! Using Google Street View...if you are not familiar with Street View you can watch the demonstration of how to use it here.

Click here to access the map of London with 10 different locations.

Changing Land Use

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(OCR B GCSE- Theme 2 Settlement).

GCSE Population Homework

Homework...

Visit the breathing earth net website.
A) Describe the distribution of the most densely populated parts of the world.
B) Explain why population density is low in any two named locations.

Coastal Management

What types of coastal defences can you see in the image below? Examples of hard or soft engineering?

Sidmouth seafront west in England
You can see lots more of these 360° panorama's here and on the 360° website. Many thanks to Noel Jenkins for these fantastic images.

Climate Change causing worlds rivers to dry out...

This article in the Guardian is of interest at the moment, especially since i have just spent the last two weeks writing a scheme of learning on Rivers! It's a start for the new OCR B GCSE specification (now on the OCR B GCSE Ning).

Some of the most important rivers on the planet, including the Ganges, the Niger, and the Yellow river in China, are drying up because of climate change, according to this article.

The map below shows the change in run-off inferred from streamflow records worldwide between 1948 and 2004, with bluish colors indicating more streamflow and reddish colors less. Graphic: Journal of Climate, modified by UCAR.