Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Mock Exam Unit 3 29 May 2013

The mock exam for Unit 3 will be held on Wednesday 29 May 2013 starting at 08.00 hours.

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Year 9 - China City Study


Imagine you had to put together a factfile about Dubai!
It would be easy!! However - you need to do it for one of the top 10 Chinese cities (by population)
For your chosen city find out and elaborate on the following topics:

Location - map etc - 2 maps? - different scales
Photo’s
Population - current & growth
Wealth - GDP?
Main language(s)
Main industries - tourism? manufacturing? Trade? Finance?
Infrastructure - Int airport? Port, New Billion dollar metro etc

Physical surroundings - mountains, rivers, plains, deserts, seas
Nearby cities
Weather & Climate
Hazards - flooding, EQ’s, volcanoes

Tourism - Famous Landmarks, monuments
Any notable historical events

British School?
Links to Dubai?

China Inequality - How the Rich and the Poor compare


Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The UK's Energy Sources

Get an map of the UK from Google images
Paste it into a document or print and stick it into your exercise book

Research the UK's "energy mix" ie How does the UK generate its electricity and use fossil fuels

Annotate your map to show some of the locations of specific sources of energy
E.g.
Nuclear power stations
Large wind farms (onshore and offshore)
Tidal Power
Wave power
Solar power
Coal fired power stations
Gas fired power stations
Oil fired power stations
HEP
Biofuels
Geothermal Power

Get photographs where possible.
In some case you could explain how it works (e.g. Wave power)
Add place names to build up a picture of the UK and its Energy
Add a suitable title
Try and keep it to one page of A4 (you can go onto 2 pages if necessary)

Print & stick it in your book (if done on computer)

Some help for you!!

The Scottish Government has approved plans for a 10MW array of tidal stream generators near Islay, Scotland
Biomass Energy Centre is a biomass fired CHP power station located in the town of Chilton in County Durham.
Top 3 wind farms in UK

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