GCSE GEOGRAPHY LINKS

This page last updated July 2008 and now ARCHIVED.

What follows are some useful links and resource ideas for use with the OCR Syllabus 'A' (1989)

Check out the REVISION PODCASTS on BBC BITESIZE (Written by a friend of GeographyPages...)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/audio/geography/index.shtml

Check out the GEOGRAPHICAL ASSOCIATION'S WEBSITE.

http://www.geobytesgcse.blogspot.com/  -  a weblog which covers the topics on our GCSE Specification...

http://www.geobytes.org.uk - plenty of past paper questions and answers

www.brumbygeog.blogspot.com - lots of slideshares thanks to 'IRON'....

also check out the GEOGRAPHY LOST weblog: http://www.geographylost.blogspot.com/

and http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc-home/vtc-ks4-home/vtc-ks4-geography.htm

and some good revision sheets at: http://burychurchgeog.blogspot.com/index.html

RESOURCES AND LINKS ARRANGED BY TOPIC

Click on the topic you want to go to the required page

ACID RAIN

THE ALPS

 THE ARAL SEA

BOOKSHOP: GET YOUR REVISION GUIDES HERE

CASE STUDIES - do you have a full set ?

COASTAL FEATURES

GCSE COURSEWORK HELP

DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

UN MILLENNIUM GOALS NOW INCLUDED, PLUS PAGES ON COMIC RELIEF, MAKE POVERTY HISTORY AND FAVELAS

DROUGHT IN PAKISTAN

THE TURKISH EARTHQUAKE 1999 ACTIVITY

THE GUJARAT EARTHQUAKE 2001

SOUTH ASIA EARTHQUAKE OCTOBER 2005

ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES

New Amazon Case study

ENERGY: RENEWABLE OR NON-RENEWABLE

CARBON REDUCTION MATERIALS

MANAGING THE ENVIRONMENT: CASE STUDIES

FARMING LESSON IDEAS

FAVELAS

FLOODING: BANGLADESH & MISSISSIPPI etc.

FLOODS IN THE UK: 2000/1 & LYNMOUTH FLOOD: 1952

(plus Boscastle & Lynmouth links...)

THE SHEFFIELD FLOOD: a Geography-Poetry collaboration

FOOD MILES
GLACIATION: ICE and its effects

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS)

AEGIS

GLOBAL WARMING

HIGH RISE FLATS

HOLDERNESS PHOTO GALLERY

HURRICANE KATRINA

August 2005

CYCLONE NARGIS DETAILS NOW ADDED

ICELAND: LAND OF ICE AND FIRE

Case study material - newly added

KING'S LYNN FIELDWORK

THE WALKS

LONDON 2012

A case study of Urban redevelopment and Sport

MAP-WORK & LOCAL AREA

FOR THE SKILLS PAPER !

MEADOWHALL

MONTSERRAT: the evacuation of an island

MOUNT ST. HELENS: the eruption of May 1980

MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES (MNCs / TNCs)

NATIONAL PARKS IN THE UK

NEWLY INDUSTRIALISING COUNTRIES (NICs)

OLYMPICS 2012

Resources relating to the successful bid, and the regeneration of Stratford in the borough of Newham which will now take place. As above...

THE PEAK DISTRICT NATIONAL PARK

inc. Castleton as a tourist 'honeypot'

SNOWDONIA NATIONAL PARK

includes information on Green Key proposals & Snowdon Summit Cafe

POLAND

POPULATION ISSUES

Demography

QUARRYING

RESOURCE EXTRACTION AND THE LOCAL ENVIRONMENT

(now includes OIL POLLUTION materials)

RETAILING LINKS

REVISION HELP

Try these revision games, thanks to Rob Chambers

Key Stage 4 - Coasts Hoopshoot (St Ivo School Geography Department)
Key Stage 4 - Tectonic Activity (Hull Trinity House School) (external link)
Key Stage 4 - Year 10 Coasts (St Ivo School Geography Department)
Key Stage 4 - Year 10 Plate Tectonics Revision (1) (St Ivo School Geography Department)
Key Stage 4 - Coasts (Hull Trinity House School) (external link)
Key Stage 4 - Tectonic Activity (Hull Trinity House School) (external link)
Key Stage 4 - Farming (St Ivo School Geography Department)
Key Stage 3/4 - PlateTastic! (Tectonics - Types of Plates / Plate Boundaries (St Ivo School Geography Department)
Key Stage 4 - Population (Quick Starter Quiz) (St Ivo School Geography Department)
Key Stage 4 - Farming - Key Terms Quiz (St Ivo School Geography Department)
Key Stage 4 - Plate Tectonics Starter (10 Questions) (St Ivo School Geography Department)

SECOND HOMES

SETTLEMENTS: AN INTRODUCTION

&

URBAN REDEVELOPMENT CASE STUDIES

SINGAPORE

SUSTAINABILITY 

&

ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTING

THE THREE GORGES DAMS

TOURISM

UK, EU & LEDC

TROPICAL RAIN FOREST ISSUES

TSUNAMI RESOURCES

Following the S.E Asian Tsunami of Boxing Day 2004 - lots of links and weblogs

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