Click on the links below to access information to help you revise the key elements of this topic:

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Section A - Core content

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Unit overview

Watch this video to remind yourself what this unit is about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gffq_ZWJ7As

Weather and Climate

http://www.s-cool.co.uk/gcse/geography/weather-and-climate.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/weather/

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Britain's Weather

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/stories/wild-britain/metoffice.shtml - video clip

http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/stories/wild-britain/kitefestival.shtml - video clip

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Weather systems

High and Low Pressure - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozII4uUhzoU

Low Pressure (Depressions) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWhM2vbVdFM

High Pressure (Anticyclone) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx8mGS7Rt_k

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The Water Cycle - video clip

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/406.html

http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/08/water-cycle-song.html

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The 3 Rainfall types - video clips

http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-does-relief-rainfall-occur.html

http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-does-convectional-rainfall-occur.html

http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-does-frontal-rainfall-occur.html

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Climate and Seasons - video clip

http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/06/climate-and-seasons.html

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Greenhouse Effect -·Animation

http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-does-greenhouse-effect-work.html

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Global Warming and Climate change

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/3192.nb.wmv

http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/10/global-climate-change-animation.html

http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/10/climate-change.html

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Desertification

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/1501.html·(video clip)

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Ecosystems

http://www.s-cool.co.uk/gcse/geography/ecosystems.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/ecosystems/

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Adaption of vegetation to tropical climate

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/audio/geography/ (audio)

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Section B - Case Studies:

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Impact of Drought in Ethiopia

http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/geography/geography/gcse-gg-case-study-water-shortage-ethiopia-cep.htm

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Impact of Drought in the UK

http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/geography/geography/gcse-gg-case-study-uk-drought-cep.htm

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Climate type - UK

http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/geography/geography/gcse-gg-case-study-maritime-climate-cep.htm

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Climate type - Monsoon

http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/geography/geography/gcse-gg-case-study-monsoon-climate-cep.htm

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Amazon Rainforest Ecosystem

http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/geography/geography/gcse-gg-case-study-amazon-rainforest-cep.htm

Amazon video clips:

http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/10/cattle-ranching-still-threatens-amazon.html

http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/10/clampdown-on-illegal-activities-in.html

Sustainable Rainforest Management

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/3097.html

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Water Management Scheme - Colorado Coursework

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7507701.stm

http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/07/colorado-drought.html

http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Ce-Cr/Colorado-River-Basin.html

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Choose one low pressure event from the following Weather Event Case studies:

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Low Pressure Weather Event - UK storms, September 2008

http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/09/stormy-weather-batters-britain.html··

http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/09/morpeth-flooded-during-heavy-rain.html

http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/09/september-floods-uk.html··

http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/geography/geography/gcse-gg-case-study-low-pressure-weather-uk-2008.htm

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Low Pressure Weather Event - Heavy Snow in UK, February 2009

http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/geography/geography/gcse-gg-case-study-heavy-snow-uk-february-2009-cep.htm

http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2009/02/britains-big-freeze-continues.html (video clips)

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Low Pressure Weather Event - Boscastle floods, August 2004

http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/geography/geography/gcse-gg-case-study-low-pressure-weather-event-at-boscastle.htm

http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/10/boscastle-floods.html (video clip)

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Plus, you must know about a High Pressure weather event:

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High Pressure Weather Event - Summer heatwave in Europe 2003

http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/geography/geography/gcse-gg-case-study-heatwave-in-europe-2003.htm··

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ax2M4Ola2_w (video clip)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx2940wcooo (video clip)

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D.Drake 2010

http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/

http://humanitiesastwiltshire.blogspot.com/