Year 9 Geography Exam Revision Pack When is the exam? 1st February What will you be examined on? WILD WEATHER: 1) Tropical storms 2) Floods 3) Droughts 1) Tropical storms / Hurricanes / Typhoons / Cyclone (all the same event) The strongest tropical storms are called hurricanes‚ typhoons or tropical cyclones. The different names all mean the same thing‚ but are used in different parts of the world. If these huge storms start in the Atlantic‚ off the west coast of Africa
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some way has taken to the phenomenon of soccer. Within any sport there are always areas to which improvement is needed‚ one area that this paper will shine light on is the opportunities women have within soccer. Women have come far in making developments in equality in most parts of the world. However there is still a visible distinction in equality‚ especially when looked at within sport. Sport develops differently dependant on the culture it is situated in and the same goes for the equality and
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100 billions stars. (1022 stars) Our galaxy is Milky Way Galaxy (or the Akash Ganga) formed after the Big Bang. It is spiral in shape. Andromeda is the nearest galaxy to Milky Way. Latest known galaxy in Dwarf Galaxy. The Big Bang Theory: Big Bang was an explosion of concentrated matter in the universe that occurred 15 billion years ago‚ leading to the formation of galaxies of stars and other heavenly bodies. Stars are the heavenly bodies made up of hot burning gases and they shine by emitting their
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discovered America. His exploration opened upp settlement and exploitation to North America but also caused the native population to drop due to environmental deterioration‚ subjugation‚ and disease. Another exploer from the 15th century was John Cabot‚ who was also Italian‚ was sent on a voyage across the Atlantic by King Henry VII of England‚ seeking toto find a shorter route to Asia than Columbus’s voyage and to find new lands for England. Cabot then discovered the mainland of North America‚
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humans migrate to North America? Humans have migrated to North America for better cultivation of crops and repopulation. It has been theorized that people have crossed to North America on a Land Bridge‚ which had emerged linking Asia and North America across into what is known today as the Bering Sea. Groups of people that have traveled from the bridge have spreaded to North‚ Central and South America‚ where tons of tribes have emerged. Many tribes have noticed that North America soil was better for crops
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slave trade. As seen in the Molly Caldwell Crosby’s book The American Plague‚ yellow fever played an incredible role in shaping America. In the broader context of American history‚ the arrival of yellow fever shows the negative repercussions that come with developments in migration‚ transportation‚ and politics. Of course‚ a primary reason yellow fever made its way to America was due to migration of Europeans and the importation of African slaves. The disease had its origins in Nigeria‚
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and the Transformation of North America” Colin G. Galloway Wei Tzu (Kaylin) Wang March 21‚ 2013 TTH- 12:30PM- 2:30PM Professor Mosby American History could not have written itself without the importance of our founding fathers. The transformation of North America in 1763 was an important year in American History because it was an ending of a long warfare in Europe and America. In the book called “The Scratch of a Pen 1763 and the transformation of North America”‚ written by Colin G. Galloway
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“Nazi foreign policy was the primary factor in leading to the outbreak of World War Two” To what extent do you agree with this statement? The Second World War is the conflict between 1939 and 1945 which saw the confrontation between the Axis powers and the other allied countries. Is defined as ’world’ because it was attended by nations of all continents and military operations interested most of the planet. The War broke out the first of September 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Germany
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a plethora of locations‚ most notably North and South America. These slaves would go on to form their own individualized communities within their bondage and shape the very countries that had enslaved them in the 18th and 19th centuries. Slaves in North and South America played similar roles but developed independently of each other and thus shaped their own individual social‚ economic‚ and political advances. African Slaves living in North and South America
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British Petroleum British Petroleum is a company‚ which focuses mainly on petroleum‚ but has some interest in alternative energy. It is one of the world largest oil and gas companies‚ which serves over 13 million consumers in more than 100 countries. The market of alternative energy is not as well developed‚ nor as profitable as oil‚ but it is a good future investment with the recently raising environmental concerns. BP recognized this on time and entered the solar market in the year of 1973.( History
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