Welcome to Year Twelve

If you are having trouble understanding any of the concepts that we are studying this year, please come and talk to us. However this site is extremely helpful at examining the basics of most AS and A level geography topics:

CLICK HERE>> http://www.s-cool.co.uk/topic_index.asp?subject_id=6&d=0

Lithosphere>>
Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes and Lithosphere (including an online test) pages are available on this site.
There is also this BRILLIANT resource from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) which shows you how volcanic eruptions are predicted and then puts you in the role of Chief Scientist in a volcanic area. Will you make the right call? Click here to find out

Find out about the 1995 Kobe Earthquake in detail here!
This PowerPoint presentation shows what the secondary effects of earthquakes are.

Mitigation of Tectonic Hazards and earthquakes in particular can be found by clicking on:
Earthquake Mitigation while Earthquakes and Goverment Responses are here and case study approaches are used here

Ecosystems
What we will be studying this half term.

The links between climate and biome distribution can be found here. While the effects of humans on succession leading to a plagioclimax is explored in this document.

Ecosystems - Sand dune succession - Go on a virtual fieldtrip and carry out a transect through a sand dune to see examples of a psammosere succession. Curious? Then click here

Alternatively you can look at succession along the Sefton coastline, NW England is shown very well through a series of photographs and explanations at the 'Sands of Time' website.

For soils, a set of model profiles are found here for podsol, rendzina, gley, peat and brown earth soils

Hydrology:

Information on the lower features of a river course can be found here:

Levees
Delta's
Alluvial Fans

Flooding case Studies for the River Rhine, Yangste and Boscastle floods...