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How can we increase the amount of food produced globally?
What is the new green revolution?
Almería in Spain: a large-scale agricultural development
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Sustainable Food Supplies in an LIC – Bangladesh
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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?
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Glacial landforms in the Lake District
Economic activities in glaciated upland areas
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How is urban planning improving the quality of life for the urban poor in Mumbai?
Urban Growth in Nigeria – Lagos
Location of Lagos
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Urban Growth in Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
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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
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Limestone and Recreation
How are limestone landscapes used?
Limestone Case Study – Malham, The Yorkshire Dales
Sustainable management of quarrying
Migration
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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
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Why do tectonic plates move?
Where do volcanoes and earthquakes happen?
Conservative Plate Margins
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Volcanic Hot Spots
Pacific Ring of Fire
Fold Mountains
Population
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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
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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?
Rivers
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How does geology affect the formation of river landforms?
The Long Profile of a River
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The River Tees – landforms of erosion and deposition
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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
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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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Tourism
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What is the impact of tourism?
Tourism in an MEDC – The UK
What are National Parks?
The National Parks of England and Wales
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Castleton A tourist honey pot in The Peak District
Castleton – Case Study Page
Tourism in an LEDC – Kenya
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The 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens
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