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      • Introduction to population
      • World Population Increase
      • Over-population and under-population
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      • A country with a rate of high population growth – China
      • A country which is over-populated – Bangladesh
      • A country which is under-populated – Australia
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      • What is migration and why do people migrate?
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      • International migration from Syria to Europe
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      • How are countries classified?
      • What does world development look like?
      • How reliable are economic indicators of development?
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      • Development, population change and the demographic transition model
      • What factors influence development?
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      • How can the growth of tourism reduce the development gap? Jamaica Case Study
      • How can the growth of tourism reduce the development gap? Tunisia Case Study
      • What is Nigeria’s location and importance?
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      • How is Nigeria’s economy changing?
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      • What is climate change?
      • Is climate change happening?
      • What causes climate change?
      • What are the effects of climate change?
      • How can the impacts of climate change be managed?
    • Coasts
      • What are waves?
      • Constructive Waves
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      • What is chemical and mechanical weathering?
      • What is mass movement?
      • What is coastal erosion?
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      • Coastal Management
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      • Happisburgh Case Study
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    • Earthquakes
      • What is an earthquake?
      • Why do earthquakes happen?
      • What are the effects of earthquakes?
      • How are earthquakes measured?
      • What factors influence the effects and response to tectonic activity?
      • Two Earthquakes Compared – Nepal and L’Aquila
      • Can the risks of earthquakes be reduced?
      • What is a tsunami?
      • The Kobe Earthquake 1995
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      • Earthquakes in California
      • Gujarat Earthquake 2001
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      • Japan Earthquake 2011
      • Christchurch Earthquake Case Study
      • Nepal Earthquake 2015
      • Amatrice Earthquake Case Study
      • Lombok Indonesia Earthquake 2018 Case Study
      • 2018 Sulawesi Indonesia Earthquake and Tsunami Case Study
    • Ecosystems
      • What is an ecosystem?
      • What is a Biome?
      • Humans and the Biosphere
      • How do changes affect the balance of an ecosystem?
      • UK Ecosystems
      • Epping Forest Case Study
      • The Tropical Rainforest
        • 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?
        • 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
      • Savanna
        • 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 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?
    • Erosion and Weathering
      • 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
    • Glaciation
      • 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
    • 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
      • 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?
    • 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
      • 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?
    • Rivers
      • 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
      • Human and physical factors causing river flooding
      • 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 landuse zones?
        • CBD
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        • Rural Urban Fringe
      • What are landuse models?
      • What are landuse models in MEDCs like?
      • What are landuse models for LEDCs like?
      • What are shanty towns / favelas?
      • What are shanty town improvement schemes?
    • Tourism
      • 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
      • Ecotourism
      • Ecotourism – Case Study
    • Urbanisation
      • What is urbanisation?
      • What causes urbanisation?
      • Million Cities
      • What is a megacity?
      • Counter-urbanisation
      • Urban Problems in LEDCs
        • Case Study – Rio de Janerio
        • Case Study – Favela
        • Self Help Schemes
      • Urban Problems in MEDCs
        • Case Study – Inner City Redevelopment – London’s Docklands
    • Volcanoes
      • 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 volcano?
      • What are lahars and pyroclastic flows?
      • What is a supervolcano?
      • Why do people live close to volcanoes?
      • Can the risks of volcanic eruptions be reduced?
      • The 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens
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      • The 2000 eruption of Popocatepetl
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      • Anak Krakatau & Sunda Strait Tsunami Indonesia Case Study 2018
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      • What factors affect climate?
      • What are climate graphs?
      • What is an air mass?
      • What influences an air mass?
      • Why is the weather of the UK so changeable?
      • What are the air masses that affect the UK?
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      • What is relief rainfall?
      • What is frontal rainfall?
      • What is convectional rainfall?
      • What is global atmospheric circulation?
      • What is atmospheric pressure?
      • What is high pressure?
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      • Weather hazards in the UK
      • Extreme weather in the UK – Beast from the East
      • Extreme Weather in the UK Summer Heatwave 2018
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      • What is the difference between a tornado and a hurricane?
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