Courtesy of Simon Cracknell

1. Case studies-Unit 1
Dynamic Planet

2. Section 1-Restless Earth
• Volcanoes
– Sakurajima, Japan [MEDC]
– Mt Nyiragongo 2002 [LEDC]
• Earthquakes
– Kashmir, Pakistan 2005 [LEDC]
– Kobe, Japan 1995 [MEDC]
• Tsunami
– SE Asia-Boxing Day 2004 [Multiple LEDCs]
– Japan, 2011 [MEDC]

3. Section 2-Climate and Change
• Little Ice Age
– Period, duration, adaption, impacts
• Medieval Warm Period
– Erik the Red, etc
• United Kingdom
– Impacts of global warming [+ and -]
• Egypt
– Why is it a bad situation?

4. Section 3-Battle for the Biosphere
• Tropical Rainforest-Amazon
– Products and Services
– Threats
• Conservation
– CITES
– National Parks
– Use of hi-tech surveillance [satellites, etc]

5. Section 4-Water World
• The Sahel
– Risks, desertification
• The Sonoran Desert
– Sustainability [good and bad examples]
• The Three Gorges Dam
– Management of water [+ and -]
• The Great Artesian Basin, Australia

6. Section 5-Coastal Change and Conflict
• Herne Bay
– Constructive/Destructive waves/Longshore drift
• Holderness coastline [North East England]
• Christchurch Bay
– Shoreline Management Plan-contrasts

7. Section 8-Extreme Environment
• Australian [hot desert]
– Coober Pedy [underground living]
– Fauna [The Bilby]
– Role of the aborigines [synoptic with Y9 Croc’ farming]
• Arctic conditions
– Changing lifestyles [Traditions, impact on the young]
– Fauna [Polar bears, Arctic foxes]
– Flora [Evergreen Fir trees characteristics]
– Human adaption [Houses, utilities, etc]