1. This must be one of the best ways to view glacial landscapes…. Wingsuit jump from Brevent, Chamonix
2. It’s not all rosy for one of the MINTS
3. Immigrants from the EU put more into Britain’s coffers than they take out.
Monthly Archives: October 2015
Year 12. A test……
….to see who has signed up to the blog and reads the posts.
Below is a ‘good’ answer to the essay question you handed in this morning.
Have a read through and note how the answer includes data from the source on exports and suggests reasons for the variation in global exports from the different regions.
Geography links for the week ending the 11th October
1. Russia’s use of cruise missiles to target ISIS in Syria is a show of force to the West.
2. What costs £54 billion and rising? The cost of cleaning up Sellafield. This short channel 4 news report outlines the issues.
3. Informative video outlining China’s increasing interest in claiming territory in South China Sea. Foreign power projection
Year 13 – Superpower essay question
June 2014
Using Figure 4 and your own knowledge, suggest the impact on people and the environment of the growth in middle-class numbers and spending. (10)
Geography links for the week ending the 4th October
1. China and India are playing the soft power game in the USA
2. International steel company SSI have closed the famous Redcar steel works in NE England. Another casualty of globalisation?
3.There’s a jökulhlaup underway in Iceland’s Slaftá region. What does that mean?
4.Russia has involved itself in aerial bombing of targets in Syria. Is a former superpower trying to exert its influence abroad?
Year 12 – Take note- Trans Pacific trade agreement
The Trans Pacific Trade Agreement has just been agreed.
This is very relevant to the work we are currently doing on trade blocs and global groupings. Make sure you have a read of the article above as it will be useful knowledge for next week’s lesson.
Year 12 – Global groupings research
First use the internet to complete the sheet below
Then use the structure in the picture below to complete a profile on the Trade blocs. Download the table here
