GCSE Geography| Topic 2| Water On The Land What are the Key Ideas for this Topic? The Shape of river valleys changes as the river flows downstream River Features & Landforms Storm Hydrographs Flooding in MEDC’s and LEDC’s Hard and Soft Strategies for River Management and Reservoirs The Shape of river valleys and River Processes A rivers long profile changes over its course. Every river has: An Upper Course Middle Course Lower Course Long Profile- shows how the gradient
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The world’s population is increasing at an alarming rate‚ therefore more and more food is required. The forests are being destroyed and more land is being cultivated‚ thus destroying the environment. Besides this the tribal population is removing trees to practise shifting cultivation and for fuel. To fulfill the demands of the urban population the forest cover is being destroyed. We need to conserve our forests as it preserves the ecological diversity and our life support system- water‚ air and
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Ap Human Geography Ryan Tillery August 30‚ 2016 B2 Planet of Slums essay During my summer vacation I was visiting New York City on one hot‚ humid day. As I was making my way to my destination I had to get on a train. This being my first time in New York City I wasn’t prepared for what I was about to experience. I was in a jammed packed train‚ so crowded I couldn’t even lift my arms all the way up without awkwardly touching someone. It felt like it was a hundred plus
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The planet I live is called Planet Buzz. The place is devoid of people‚ except for me. The place looks like a gigantic ball of yellow‚ flowery dust. The dust swirls around the planet and shrouds it from outsiders. The dust smells of methane and honey. Planet Buzz has many bees which is why the atmosphere smells of honey. The methane smell is from the core of the planet. Everyday‚ the core leaks over two hundred million pounds of methane. Planet Buzz has two major sounds you hear daily. Due to the
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The first thing that comes to the mind after reading the topic is: ‘How not wasting food would save the planet?’ ‘What effect does wastage of food has on the environment or the planet?’ ‘What exactly makes all that waste and its emissions?’ The answer is very simple if we pause to ponder. Food waste is not just consumers throwing dinner scraps away. Producing‚ distributing‚ storing and cooking food uses energy‚ fuel and water. Each of these emits greenhouse gases contributing to climate change
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In your essay‚ “Hip Hop planet”‚ you claim that our world is getting over run by Hip Hop and that the music is a cry for help. I understand that your past encounters with Hip Hop made you want to write your essay. In your essay you state that Hip Hop is a cry for help and that it is something that we should listen to. You also talk about how you used to be against Hip Hop and how you changed your opinion‚ you then explain why you changed your view on the music. I interpret that the reason you wrote
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"Venus: Our Sister Planet?" Venus is known as the jewel of the sky. It was thought to be two different planets by ancient astronomers and thus referred to as the morning star and the evening star. Early astronomers also referred to Venus as Earth ’s sister planet. Both are considered young planets due to the low number of craters and both are similar in size‚ and their chemical compositions are similar. The surface of Venus has many features‚ which are similar to the Earth such as canyons‚ volcanoes
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Pluto is not a planet For my whole life I have been taught that there were exactly 9 planets in the solar system. I had learnt this at a very young age and the number 9 had often been stressed to me. I can’t believe the amount of tests that I had failed on the subject because I had failed to remember one of these planets. My excuse had always been‚ "No! That’s not a planet!". If I had forgotten Saturn then I would say‚ " Oh sir! Saturn’s not really a planet‚ it’s yellow and everyone knows that
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“The Earth has a fever‚ and the fever is rising… We are what is wrong‚ and we must make it right” (Al Gore‚ 2007). In the context of global warming‚ discuss the extent to which you agree with this statement. For the last 2.5 million years‚ global temperature has shifted between cold glacial periods that last for around 100 000 years‚ and warmer interglacial periods that last for around 10 000 years. Right now we are in an interglacial period. 20 000 years ago the Earth was cold. Around 15000 years
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