Year 12 Assignment on Earth's Inner processes 2nd July 2014

The title of your assignment is;


"Why are Earth's Inner Processes necessary for its very existence?"


This assignment should be written in the form of a 40 mark essay to check the marking criteria for the essay you could visit the AQA website selecting geography as the subject and looking at the A level specification document.


You might like to look at these useful websites for help with this assignment;

• www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/10390508864.htm
• www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1462-2920.12249/pdf
• www.ncbi.nlm.gov/pubmed/24034209
• www.telegraph.co.uk>Science>ScienceNews
• www.news.nationalgeographic.com/news/.../1007_041007_volcanic_gas.htm

please submit this assignment on Thursday 10th July 2014


Any problems see me Mrs Williams


Good luck!!

Warming to 'increase severe UK floods'

Scientists at the MET office have predicted that if climate change continues, the UK could see more severe flooding, particularly in the summer months.

Read the article below for more information (Year 10's, this will help with your case study research)

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Can you name all of the continents?

How about the structure of the Earth or the countries of Africa?

Improve your general geographical skills with this amazing website full of games to test your knowledge!

This will help all year groups and is an interactive way of learning. Why not give it a go?

GCSE Geographers - Flooding

We Need More Money To Protect Our Homes and Businesses from Flooding!

  More homes and businesses will soon be at the mercy of severe weather because a Government boost to flood defence spending is inadequate to deal with the increased risk, MPs have said. A "major commitment" to enhancing protection announced by George Osborne in last week's spending review was still up to £150 million a year less by 2020 than its own experts said was needed, they warned.
But in a scathing assessment of the failure to devote sufficient resources to prevent the devastating and deadly floods of recent years, the Commons environment, food and rural affairs committee said that was insufficient.

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All members of 8S this is your task for the LFL competition.
Use the link below to add a statement to the padlet page I have created.
Instructions are at the top of the page.

http://padlet.com/wall/lovingsma

Thanks Mrs W

Did you watch the BBC 2 programme, 'Rise of the Continents'?

It is excellent for our GCSE Geographers and others keen to learn more about facinating changes to our planet!

Sunday BBC 2, 9pm or you can watch the first episode on BBC iPlayer.

Victoria Falls is a 100m-high waterfall in Southern Africa, on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe.  Geologist and presenter Iain Stewart opted for the ultimate way to experience the cascade.

He jumped into a rock pool at the edge of the falls, which are said to be the largest in the world, and catches a vertigo-inducing view.

In the programme, Prof Stewart examines the evidence for a long-lost landmass called Pangaea - from which all modern continents originate.
Victoria Falls was formed from intense volcanic activity in an ancient landmass called Gondwanaland, almost 200 million years ago.

(BBC News)

Would you stand at the edge of Victoria Falls?

Click on the image below to view the clip:

http://news.sky.com/story/1093711/tornado-survivor-finds-dog-during-tv-interview

Check out this link about one tornado survivor reunited with her dog.