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      • Humans and the Biosphere
      • How do changes affect the balance of an ecosystem?
      • UK Ecosystems
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        • What is a Tropical Rainforest?
        • Where are tropical rainforests located?
        • What is the structure of the tropical rainforest?
        • What is the climate of the rainforest?
        • The nutrient cycle in the rainforest
        • How has rainforest vegetation adapted to the climate?
        • How have animals adapted to the rainforest environment?
        • Biodiversity and Tropical Rainforests
        • Changing rates of rainforest deforestation
        • What are the causes of deforestation in the Amazon?
        • What are the effects of deforestation in the Amazon?
        • What is the value of the tropical rainforest?
        • Sustainable Management of the Tropical Rainforest
        • Sustainable Management of the Amazon Rainforest
      • Temperate Deciduous Woodland
        • What is a Temperate Deciduous Woodland?
        • Where are Temperate Deciduous Woodlands Located?
        • What is the structure of the Temperate Deciduous Woodland?
        • How did the temperate deciduous woodland get like this?
        • How has the vegetation in the temperate deciduous forest adapted to the climate?
        • What is the impact of humans on the temperate deciduous woodland?
        • Sustainable development in the Temperate Deciduous Woodland
      • Taiga
        • What is Taiga?
        • Where is Taiga located?
        • How did the Taiga get like this?
        • What is the impact of humans on the Taiga?
        • Sustainable development in the Taiga
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        • What is savanna?
        • Where is savanna located?
        • How did the savanna get like this?
        • What is the impact of humans on the savanna?
        • Sustainable development in the savanna
      • Desert
        • What is a hot desert?
        • Where are deserts located?
        • Why are deserts located along the tropics?
        • Interdependence in the hot desert
        • Biodiversity in hot deserts
        • How has hot desert vegetation adapted to the climate?
        • How have animals adapted to the desert?
        • Opportunities and Challenges in the Sahara Desert
        • Opportunities and Challenges in the Thar Desert
        • Opportunities and Challenges in the Western Desert
        • What is the impact of humans on the desert?
        • Reducing the risk of desertification
        • Sustainable development in the desert – The Great Green Wall
      • Cold Environments – Polar and Tundra
        • What are cold environments?
        • Where are polar and tundra environments located?
        • What are the physical characteristics of cold environments?
        • How have animals adapted to cold environments?
        • How have plants adapted to cold environments?
        • How is a cold environment interdependent?
        • Alaska Case Study
        • Svalbard Case Study
        • Where is Tundra located?
        • Protection of cold environments as wilderness areas
        • How did Tundra get like this?
        • What is the impact of humans on Tundra?
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      • What is Acid Rain?
      • What problems are caused by acid rain?
      • What is the greenhouse effect?
      • What is global warming?
      • What causes global warming?
      • What problems are caused by global warming?
      • What are the benefits of global warming?
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      • What is erosion?
      • What does scenery formed by erosion look like?
      • What is weathering?
      • What are the different types of weathering?
    • Food Resources
      • What are the differences in global calorie intake and food supply?
      • Why is demand for food growing?
      • What affects the amount of food we have?
      • How does food insecurity affect people?
      • How does food insecurity affect the environment?
      • How can we increase the amount of food produced globally?
      • What is the new green revolution?
      • Almería in Spain: a large-scale agricultural development
      • What is a sustainable food supply?
      • Sustainable Food Supplies in an LIC – Bangladesh
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      • What is glaciation?
      • How do glaciers erode?
      • How do glaciers move?
      • How do glaciers transport material?
      • Why does glacial deposition happen?
      • Glacial Landforms – Upland Features
      • Which landforms result from moving or melting ice?
      • Glacial Landforms – Lowland Features
      • Glacial landforms in the Lake District
      • Economic activities in glaciated upland areas
      • Glaciation Photo gallery – Goat Fell, Isle of Arran
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      • What is the location and importance of Mumbai?
      • Why is Mumbai growing?
      • What are Mumbai’s social and economic opportunities?
      • What challenges have been caused by urban growth in Mumbai?
      • How is urban planning improving the quality of life for the urban poor in Mumbai?
    • Urban Growth in Nigeria – Lagos
      • Location of Lagos
      • The Growth of Lagos
      • What causes population growth in Lagos?
      • How has urbanisation helped Nigeria to develop?
      • How has the growth of Lagos caused inequality?
      • Economic opportunities and challenges in Lagos
      • Lagos squatter settlements
      • Lagos Water Supply and Pollution
      • Traffic Congestion in Lagos
      • Urban Planning in Lagos
    • Urban Growth in Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
      • How is urban planning improving the quality of life for the urban poor in Rio de Janeiro?
      • What is the location and importance of Rio de Janeiro?
      • How has Rio de Janeiro grown?
      • What are the social and economic opportunities associated with the growth of Rio?
      • What challenges are associated with the growth of Rio?
      • How is urban planning improving the quality of life for the urban poor in Rio de Janeiro?
    • Limestone
      • What is limestone?
      • How does weathering affect limestone?
      • Limestone (karst features) – Overview
      • Limestone features below ground
      • Limestone features above ground
      • Limestone and Recreation
      • How are limestone landscapes used?
      • Limestone Case Study – Malham, The Yorkshire Dales
      • Sustainable management of quarrying
    • Migration
      • What is migration?
      • What are the main types of migration?
      • Why do people migrate?
      • Push and Pull Factors
      • Migration into Europe
    • Plate Tectonics
      • Structure of the Earth
      • Plate Boundaries
      • What is continental drift?
      • Why do tectonic plates move?
      • Where do volcanoes and earthquakes happen?
      • Conservative Plate Margins
      • Constructive Plate Margins
      • Destructive Plate Margins
      • Volcanic Hot Spots
      • Pacific Ring of Fire
      • Fold Mountains
    • Population
      • What is population distribution?
      • What is population density?
      • What factors affect population density?
      • How has world population changed?
      • What causes population change?
      • What is life expectancy?
      • What is the Demographic Transition Model?
      • What are population pyramids?
      • Population change in LEDCs
        • Case Study: China
        • Population Case Study: Kerala, India
      • Population change in MEDCs
    • Resources
      • Types of Energy
      • Non-renewable Energy
      • Renewable Energy
    • Resource Management
      • The significance of food, water and energy
      • An overview of global inequalities in the supply and consumption of resources
      • The demand for food in the UK
      • Carbon footprints, ‘food miles’ and moves towards local sourcing of food
      • Why is there a trend towards agribusiness?
      • How has demand for water in the UK changed?
      • Carbon footprints, ‘food miles’ and moves towards local sourcing of food
      • Water quality and pollution management in the UK
      • Where are the areas of water deficit and surplus in the UK?
      • Water Transfer in the UK
      • How is demand for energy changing in the UK?
      • How is the UK’s energy mix changing?
      • What are the economic and environmental issues of energy production?
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      • Weathering and mass movement in river valleys
      • How do rivers erode?
      • How do rivers transport material?
      • Why do rivers deposit sediment?
      • How does geology affect the formation of river landforms?
      • The Long Profile of a River
      • Cross profiles of a river
      • Landforms in the upper course of a river
      • Landforms in the middle course of a river
      • Landforms in the lower course of a river
      • How do weather and climate affect river landscapes?
      • Human activity in River Landscapes
      • What are the human and physical factors that affect flood risk?
      • How does flooding affect humans and the environment?
      • The River Tees – landforms of erosion and deposition
      • The Water Cycle
      • What is a river basin?
      • River Discharge
      • Flood Hydrographs
      • River Flooding and Management
      • Rivers – Hard Engineering
      • Rivers – Soft Engineering
      • Case Study – Ganges/Brahmaputra River Basin
      • The Great Floods of 2000
      • Kerala flood case study
    • Rocks, Resources and Scenery
      • Geological time is on a different time to human time
      • Rock Types and the Rock Cycle
      • Rock and Weathering
      • Different rocks create contrasting landforms and landscapes
      • How are granite landscapes used?
      • How are limestone landscapes used?
      • What is the impact of quarrying?
      • Sustainable management of quarrying
    • Settlements
      • What is a settlement?
      • What is the site and situation of a settlement?
      • What are the functions of a settlement?
      • What is a settlement hierarchy?
      • What do we mean by land use?
      • What are land use zones?
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        • Rural Urban Fringe
      • What are landuse models?
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      • What are shanty towns / favelas?
      • What are shanty town improvement schemes?
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      • What is tourism?
      • How has tourism grown?
      • What is the impact of tourism?
      • Tourism in an MEDC – The UK
      • What are National Parks?
      • The National Parks of England and Wales
      • Problems in National Parks
      • Castleton A tourist honey pot in The Peak District
      • Castleton – Case Study Page
      • Tourism in an LEDC – Kenya
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      • Ecotourism – Case Study
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      • What is a megacity?
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        • Case Study – Favela
        • Self Help Schemes
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        • Case Study – Inner City Redevelopment – London’s Docklands
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      • What is a volcano?
      • Where are volcanoes located?
      • What is the Ring of Fire?
      • What are active, dormant and extinct volcanoes?
      • What are the main features of a volcano?
      • What are the different types of volcanoes?
      • What are lahars and pyroclastic flows?
      • What is a supervolcano?
      • Why do people live close to volcanoes?
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      • The 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens
      • The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo
      • The 2000 eruption of Popocatepetl
      • The 2010 eruption of Mount Merapi
      • Eyjafjallajokull Case Study
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      • What is global atmospheric circulation?
      • What is atmospheric pressure?
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      • How do ocean currents transfer and redistribute heat energy around the Earth?
      • Weather hazards in the UK
      • Extreme weather in the UK – Beast from the East
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      • Extreme Weather in the UK – Storm Ciara
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      • What are the causes of drought?
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