10B 2013 Case Study List

1.1 Population Dynamics:

 China – One Child Policy (Key Geog pg 138, New Wider World pg 13 & 15 and handout)
 Italy (Key Geog pg 140, New Wider World pg 15 and handout, )
 HIV/Aids in Africa Case Study (Homework and handout,
http://eispgeography.weebly.com/uploads/7/2/5/0/7250096/hiv.aids_resource.pdf,
http://www.geographylwc.org.uk/GCSE/igcse/population/hiv.html)

1.2 Settlement :

http://greenfieldgeography.wikispaces.com/IGCSE+Settlements+and+GCSE+Settlements

 MEDC: London (Key Geog pg 162-163, 168 – 169, New Wider World pg 48 – 49, 60 – 61,
http://geobytesgcse.blogspot.it/2007/03/inner-cities-case-study-regeneration-of.html
http://www.revisioncentre.co.uk/gcse/geography/settlements2.html)
 MEDC2: Osaka – Kobe ( New Wider World pg 70 – 73)
 LEDC: Sao Paolo (New Wider World pg 82 – 83, Key Geog pg 186,
http://www.bennett.karoo.net/topics/urbanproblsledcs.html,
http://ledc-settlement-saopaulo.blogspot.it/)
 LEDC2: Rio de Janerio (New Wider World pg 86 – 87,
http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/topics/urbanproblsledcs.html#rio,
http://www.macalester.edu/courses/geog61/chad/titlepag.htm)

2.1 Plate Tectonics

Earthquakes:

 LEDC: Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (Class Notes,

http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/topics/haiti_earthquake.html,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/americas/2010/haiti_earthquake/default.stm,
http://handygeography.wordpress.com/gcse/the-restless-earth-revision-materials/earthquake-
case-study-haiti-poor/,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/geography/physical_processes/plate_tectonics/revision/7/)

 MEDC: Kobi, Japan (New Wider world pg 270 – 271)

Volcanoes:

 Mt. St. Helen’s (New Wider World pg 266 – 267,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/natural_hazards/volcanoes_rev7.shtml)
2.2 Landforms and Landscape Process

Rivers:

 River Processes: River Tordera, Spain (notes from trip,

http://geographyfieldwork.com/RiverTordera.htm)
 Flooding LEDC : The Ganges River, Bangladesh (Key Geog pg 22 – 25, New Wider World pg
288 – 289,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/water_rivers/river_flooding_manage
ment_rev6.shtml,
http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/schools/blythebridge/gcsebangladesh.htm)
 Flooding MEDC: The River Carlise, UK (Key Geography pg 18 – 21, New Wider World pg 286 –
287, http://www.geography.org.uk/resources/flooding/carlisle/)

Coasts:

 Dorset Coast, England, UK (New Wider World pg 304 – 309)

 Coral Reefs: The Great Barrier Reef, Australia (handout and homework)

 Coral Reefs 2: Kenya Tourism Case Study

2.3 Weather Climate and Natural Vegetation

 Effects and Causes of Hurricanes: Hurricane Katrina (handout,

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/education/teens/case-studies/katrina,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/natural_hazards/hurricanes_rev3.shtml)

 LEDC vs MEDC: Hurricane Andrew (Florida – MEDC) vs Hurricane Mitch (Central America –
LEDCs) (New Wider World pg 217, http://tinyurl.com/dxcv45u)

 Tropical Rainforests: Madagascar (classwork, scanned copy of book,

http://www.wildmadagascar.org/overview/rainforests.html,
http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20madagascar.htm)

 Tropical Rainforests 2: Amazon (Key Geog pg 118-121, New Wider World pg 236-237, Handout)

 Deserts and Desertification: Sahel (scanned copy of the book, Key Geog pg 126-127)

2.4 Inter-relationships between the natural environment and human activities

Lots of case studies that you did in other topics can be also used in this topic eg:
 Kenyan Case Study on tourism  Impacts of Transporting/using Oil: Alaskan Oil Spill

 Coral Reefs  Flooding MEDC: The River Carlise, UK

 Congo Fuel Wood Case Study  Tropical Rainforest Deforestation

 Impacts of Fossil Fuels: Global Warming  Desertification in the Sahel

 Settlement Case Studies (both LEDC and MEDC)

3.1 Agricultural Systems

 Commercial Farming in Denmark (New Wider World pg 102 -103)

 Subsistence Rice Farming in the Lower Ganges (New Wider World pg 112-113,
http://video.mail.ru/bk/nowikow777/855/1957.html)

3.2 Industry:

 Iron and Steel Industries in South Wales (Key Geography pg 214 – 215, New Wider World pg 138
– 139)

 Burnaston Nissan Car Factory, England, UK. (Key Geography pg 216 -217)

3.3 Leisure Activities and Tourism

 Tourism in MEDCs: Costa Del Sol (New Wider World pg 164- 165)

 Toursim in LEDCS & Eco-tourism: Kenya (New Wider World pg 170-171, Key Geog pg 240 – 243,
http://geobytesgcse.blogspot.it/2008/04/case-study-of-tourism-in-ledc-kenya.html,
http://www.geographylwc.org.uk/GCSE/Year5/tourism/tourledc.html,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/tourism/tourism_ledc_rev2.shtml)

3.4 Energy and Water Resources

Energy

 Alaskan Oil (Key Geog pg 255 – 257, New Wider World pg 128 – 131, handout)

 Beauly to Denny Powerline (hand out and homework)

 Fuelwood in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Handout,

http://www1.american.edu/ted/charcoal.htm,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo#Fuelw
ood_and_charcoal_collection)

 Global Warming (Classwork, New Wider World pg 218 – 221, Key Geog 104 -105)

Water
 Lesotho Highlands project (Classwork, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13728324, )