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Richard Allaway

Glossary of Glacier Terminology: A glossary providing the vocabulary necessary to under... - 1 views

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    Glossary of Glacier Terminology: A glossary providing the vocabulary necessary to understand the modern glacier environment.
Richard Allaway

geographyalltheway.com - AS / A2 / IB Geography - Agriculture in Hot, Arid Environments - 0 views

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    Updated May 2012 Lesson Aim To be able to examine the opportunities for agriculture in hot, arid environments To be examine the distinction between aridity and infertility. To examine the importance of irrigation. To examine the risk of salinization.
Richard Allaway

geographyalltheway.com - AS / A2 / IB Geography - Periglacial environment - 0 views

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    The aim of this lesson: To be able to explain permafrost, patterned ground, solifluction, thermokarst, pingos. Redeveloped March 2012
Richard Allaway

geographyalltheway.com - AS / A2 / IB Geography - Glacial environment - 1 views

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    The aim of this lesson: To be able to explain the advance and retreat of glaciers. To be able to explain the main features resulting from the processes of erosion and deposition by glaciers [glacial trough, a cirque, hanging valley, an arête, a pyramidal peak, an erratic, a drumlin, various types of moraine]. Updated Feb 2012
Kathleen Noreisch

The Arctic oil rush | Environment | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Greenland is a land apart - where many people welcome global warming, dislike Greenpeace, and hope the arrival of Big Oil will transform their lives. But at what price to this pristine wilderness?
Richard Allaway

The British Geographer - The British Geographer - 2 views

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    [Submitted by: Paul Christmas] "The following site has a detailed section on freshwater and many other topics. It will be useful for the options section of the IB and in future will develop sections for the core. A key highlight are some of the detailed case studies. However the site is under development and so some section are are not complete. Some food and health case studies are required and the extreme environments sections is still being written. The site will be useful for both students and teachers of IB geography but has not been written exclusively for the IB."
Kathleen Noreisch

Gigapan of Everest - 0 views

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    Good for identifying glacial landforms
Richard Allaway

geographyalltheway.com - AS / A2 / IB Geography - Hot, Arid: Resource Development Urani... - 1 views

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    Lesson Aim To examine the opportunities and challenges posed for resource development (mineral extraction and any associated settlement and communications) in hot, arid areas - focusing on uranium extraction in Niger. Updated July 2012
Robert Cooper

World's most northerly oil platform - 0 views

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    LUKOIL's platform in the Barents Sea.
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    Useful for resource development in a periglacial environment. Also see the excellent TV advert at emerson/lukoil; and details of the ice breaking oil tanker, Timofey Guzhenko, that reaches the platform.
Kathleen Noreisch

Deepwater Horizon fears resurface as rigs probe for oil under Arctic ice | Environment ... - 0 views

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    ExxonMobil and Shell compete to drill in wilderness despite Greenpeace's fears a broken well could gush for years
Kathleen Noreisch

Melting glaciers will destroy Alpine resorts within 45 years, says report | Environment... - 1 views

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    The grandchildren of today's skiers are likely to know the white peaks of Switzerland only from the wrappers of chocolate bars. A remarkable report on climate change that will be handed to European governments this week will say that the effect of rising temperatures will mean an end to snow across large areas of the Alps.
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