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Bald Eagle GeoResources

A-Level section

 

Alaska

 

Engineering Triumphs -
The Trans Alaska Oil Pipeline

 

Exxon-Valdez Oil Spill

 

 

 

 

Antarctica

 

Virtual Antarctica

 

 

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Bangladesh

 

 

 


Brazil

 

 

Brazil

Encarta article on Brazil

 

An excellent resource about all aspects of Brazil

Brazillian Embassy - UK - Brazil in the secondary school

A superb resource designed to help teachers planning their programmes for Key Stage 3 and for GCSE and for Scottish Standard Grade examinations. All sections have a Word format version that can be downloaded by clicking the "Associated Files" button on the right. Ideal for students completing research into Brazil. There are 13 different topics covering on the site.

Brazil (CIA World Fact book) -

Brazil's vital statistics

Brazil Flags

World Flag Database

Brazil information

 

Brazil - Info Please

The learning Network provided by info please presents encyclopedia information about Brazil.

Eye on Brazil

A superb resources about Brazil on the Global Eye Web Site - Aimed at Pirmary level - but a good introduction for all!

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Canada

 

Canada Centre for Remote Sensing

 

Canadian Association of Geographers

 

Canadian Communities Atlas

 

Canadian Forest Service

 

Canadian Ice Service

 

Canadian Information by Subject

National Library of Canada

Canadian Soil Information System

 

Environmental Systems Research Institute

GIS Schools and Library Program (Canada)

Geological Survey of Canada Geomatics Canada GeoSources

(Canadian Council for Geographic Education)

Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System

 

Historical Atlas of Canada

 

National Atlas of Canada Online

 

National Earthquake Hazards Programme

 

Parks Canada

 

Statistics Canada

 

 

Coasts and Coastal Erosion

Anglia Campus - Coastal Landform

This is a excellent all round site about coastal landforms.

Cliff erosion at the Holderness Coast

 

Coastal erosion resources

 

Coastal landforms

 

Coastal processes

An excellent site about coastal erosion and landforms.

Coastal zone management

 

Coasts revision vocabulary

 

East Yorkshire Coast - Geology and Geomorphology

 

Erosion of the Holderness Coast

 

Formation of a bays and headlands

An excellent page with lots of animations

Formation of a cliff and a wave-cut platform

An excellent page with lots of animations

Formation of stacks arches and stumps

 

Holderness Coast Project Sea defences

 

Spurn Head

A video about Spurn

 

Countries

 

Countries

Infoplease

Country listings

CIA World Fact Book

CIA world fact book

Contains information and statistics on every country in the world!

Icelandic Tourist Board Web Site

An excellent site covering many aspects of one of Europe's most beautiful countries!

India Links

 

Lonely Planet

Contains information about every country in the world (well almost!!)

Virtual World and city tours

 

 

 

D

Desertification

 

A straight forward site covering the main aspects of desertification (text heavy)

Desertification

A page by the Canadian International Development Information Centre

Desertification Lesson Plans

A range of lessons plans and resources covering desertification.

Mr. dowling's Electronic Passport - Deserts and the Sahel

 

Population Reference Bureau

Africa's Struggle With Desertification 

The Environment - A Global Challenge

A c omprehensive site on the environment. With 400 articles and 811 pages, the site covers every aspect of the environment and provides many interactive features. Take a look at the desertification page

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

A web site covering a wide range of issues relating to desertification by The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. There are a range of fact sheets on this site:

The causes of desertification
The Consequences of desertification

 

 

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Earthquakes

Economic Geography

UK National Statistics

 

Multinationals

 

The Pacific Rim

 

The Welsh Development Authority

 

The Welsh Development Authority - Investors in Wales - Lucky Goldstar

 

 

Ecosystems

 

General Ecosystems Sites

Map and links to biome pages

Ecosystems

BBC Bitesize Revision

Ecosystems

A comprehensive site covering all the world's major ecosystems

The Evergreen Project - Biomes of the world

An excellent web site containing a huge range of resources - TOP SITE!

Sustainability 2000

 

What is an ecosystem?

BBC Bitesize Revision

World ecosystems

BBC Bitesize Revision

World ecosystem map

NASA

Arid areas/Deserts

Deserts

A detailed description of deserts

Deserts - Links

A page containing lots of links to sites related to Deserts.

The Desert Biome

 

The Evergreen Project - Deserts

An excellent web site containing a huge range of resources about the desert biome

Equatorial/Tropical Rainforest

Amazon Interactive

 

Deforestation

 

Deforestation in the Amazon

 

Help with rainforest reports

Probably the best rainforest portal on the internet. You will probably find EVERYTHING you need on this site.

Jungle Photos

 

Lots of images of the Amazon Rainforest - photographs, satellite images etc.

The Evergreen Project - Rainforests

An excellent web site containing a huge range of resources about the rainforest biome

Play with a tree frog in South America

 

Rainforest alliance

A very good rainforest site.

Rainforest Action Network

A range of resources related to the rainforest. Check out the Kids' Corner!

Rainforest Links

Lot's of links to web sites about tropical rainforests

Rainforest Web

World Rainforest Portal

Science in the Rainforest

Take a walk in the Rainforest

Science in the Rainforest

Tropical Rainforest Animals

The Causes of Tropical Deforestation

 

The causes of rainforest destruction

A very detailed page covering the causes of rainforest destruction - well recommended. From the Rainforest Information Centre Educational Supplement

The Rainforest

Kids action Questions and answers

Grasslands/Savannah

Grasslands

 

The Evergreen Project - Grasslands

An excellent web site containing a huge range of resources about the grassland (prairies) biome

Taiga

The Evergreen Project - Taiga

An excellent web site containing a huge range of resources about the taiga biome

NORTHERN CONIFEROUS FOREST BIOME

Detailed information about the Taiga biome

Taiga - links

A page containing lots of links to sites related to Taiga

Tundra

The Evergreen Project - Tundra

An excellent web site containing a huge range of resources about the tundra biome

Tundra - links

page containing lots of links to sites related to Tundra.

Tundra

 

Tundra - The not-so barren land

 

The Tundra Biome

 

 

Energy

 

Energy Education

California Energy Commission

 

Environment

 

Acid Rain

 

Acid Rain

 

Climate Problems - Acid Rain

Many links to sites containing information about acid rain.

Desertification

 

Environmental index -

Links to pages with information about - Waste management and recycling transport air pollution global warming noise pollution ozone layer depletion water resources alternative and renewable energy resources acid rain

Envirofacts

 

EPA Global Warming Site

 

Friends of The Earth Homepage

 

Forest for life

Part of the WWF site (not the wrestling site!)

Greenpeace International

 

Ozone layer

 

Save our Earth

 

Soil Erosion

 

The Dust Bowl

 

World Environmental Change

BBC's Landmarks brings you information about world environmental change. The site includes information about Wetlands, Dry lands, Cities, The Sea and Forests

 

Europe

 

European Union

 

European Union Homepage

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

F

 

Farming

Farming Terms

Farming dictionary by the NFU

The Green Revolution - Definition

 

The Green Revolution - India

 

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