Geography Resources Online

Worksheet explaining Relief and Contour lines... HERE .

Fun game to help with 4 figure and 6 figure grid references MapZone - Homework Help - Maptivity - Grid references

These might be useful one day.

This is interesting: Two photographers have traveled the world to meet "average" families and report on their dietary habits, then taken photos of the families with their weekly food totals. Link . Check it out!

An interesting little site that features representations of the world map with re-sized proportions - based on factors such as population, HIV prevalence and wealth: Here's a preview of one for purchasing power: Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before via Ian @ Amazing Grades

Did you know that every 6,000 miles a car travels, it produces its own weight in CO2? There are 30 million cars in the UK and each car is driven on average 9,000 miles a year. That's a lot of CO2 being pumped into our air. These photos show some examples of current electric hybrid models: Toyota Prius What are hybrid electric vehicles? Hybrid vehicles are powered by a combination of a petrol or diesel engine and electricity. This cuts down on the amount of fuel needed, meaning hybrid vehicles produce fewer emissions. and spend less on petrol. Most hybrids also use regenerative braking, which means that energy is put back into the battery when braking - this improves energy efficiency and reduces brake wear. Honda Insight What are the environmental benefits of hybrid electric vehicles? As well as producing fewer emissions, hybrid technologies improve fuel efficiency and therefore provide considerable fuel savings compared to a non-hybrid vehicle. Honda Civic Hybrid How much does i...

A plan to create a £24m wood-fuelled energy plant is closer to being built after securing more than £5m of government funding. If it goes ahead, the combined heat and power plant will be capable of heating 20,000 homes a year. The biomass scheme will use wood fibre to produce steam to make electricity. Heat generated during this process will be used to manufacture 100,000 tonnes of wood pellets a year, offering an alternative to fossil fuels, such as oil. The new plant will create around 30 local jobs. Full Story

Lots (one hundred) ways to conserve energy, use less water protect our air and create less rubbish. It's... 100 Ways to Save the Environment Huzzah for saving the environment!

Really useful links all about Climate Change. Includes latest news, a slideshow, what we can do to fight climate change, the impact climate change will have on us and the causes. More on climate change | Climate change | Guardian Unlimited Environment Really useful site with lots of information.

Tense anniversary in French suburbs Clichy-sous-Bois, is a drab suburb in the north-east of Paris, scene of the deaths of two local teenagers who died and sparked three weeks of rioting across France's largely immigrant suburbs. Cedric Lignier, 18 Clichy-sous-Bois If more was done to help youths, they would sell fewer drugs. But it’s difficult to get work. As soon as employers see our faces, they think we want to steal from them. I want to work! More comments and quotes here Map of Paris suburbs. More maps here . French police figures for the riots: 9193 cars burnt 2,921 arrests 21 nights of riots Read the full story here including a timeline and lots of other resources from the BBC website.

A supercell is a severe thunderstorm with a deep rotating updraft (called a mesocyclone). Check out these amazing photos of a supercell thunderstorm in Nebraska: May 28, 2004 Highway 12 Supercell-ne Nebraska More about supercells . More awesome storm pictures at extremeinstability.com

"Britain's biggest cave discovered "

Today, I have mostly been investigating... This site has lots of powerpoint resources here that are really amazing , including the rivers millionaire game , the car park geography catchphrase game , and the animation showing how stacks form . There's also a really in depth section called Juicy Geography's Google Earth page for teachers . Which is all about the fantastic Google Earth . Juicy Geography is a five star site!

Seed Magazine is cool. It's kind of like New Scientist , but easier to understand. Our overarching goal is the nurturing of a science-savvy global citizenry by increasing public interest in and understanding of science. Sounds good to me. Here's the best bit: Scientific issues and innovations seem to creep into everyday conversation more than ever before. Recognizing that we could all use some expertise in hot science topics, Seed offers its Cribsheet. They've got guides all about nuclear power , hybrid cars , avian flu , climate change and stem cells . Check them all out here: http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/cribsheet/ All the files are available as either a handy GIF file or as a PDF. So, print them out to help with revision, or enlarge them and stick them on the wall! These Cribsheets are also really useful if you're just getting started on a topic and want to know the facts.

Britain is facing a chronic shortage of geophysicists as fewer students choose to study geophysical science at university and leading scientists in the field retire, a new study reveals. The problem has reached crisis point and if the current rates of decline continue there will be no geophysics undergraduates by 2030, the British Geophysical Association report warns. EducationGuardian.co.uk | Research | Report warns of earth scientists shortage

Find all the weird, cool, beautiful places on the planet with Google Earth. Google Earth Cool Places - famous buildings, beautiful places, weird land formations

The Aleutian Islands and the Alaskan peninsula are shown in this image acquired by the MODIS on the Terra satellite, on May 25th, 2006. The Aleutian Islands, with 57 volcanoes among them, are in the northern part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. Stunning High Resolution Image (JPEG Image, 5600x4400 pixels)

Free sample GCSE question about rivers: GCSE Geog Physical 1 Example.pdf You have to buy the real papers, and they're between £5 and £7. This one is a free question about waterfalls and flooding , so it could be useful as a practice question in class. via www.examinationgroup.com

Nice Google Map showing information about active vocanoes: Active Volcanos - Google Maps API Example

Despite the difficulties inherent in predicting climate changes over decades and centuries, Earth's longer term forecast is simple: Same as the last million years. Million-Year Forecast: Disasters Galore

Mount St. Helens Shoots Steam, Ash Plume Into Air

Here's one for you: The government says that by 2020 it wants all schools to be "models of energy efficiency and renewable energy" and provide "healthy, local and sustainable food and drink produced or prepared on site". British Schools Must Go Green Carrington Junior School in Buckinghamshire, have a wind turbine at the end of the playing field. School goes green with turbine The level of power generated and used will be displayed on an interactive whiteboard outside the library. A long-range, comprehensive plan like this should help not only lighten the footprint of British schools, but also produce better educated, and healthier students. More (green) power to the people! Woo! via: Treehugger

More solar cooking shennanigans... The Solar Cooking Archive

Treehugger: Solar Oven

More than 30 countries around the Pacific Ocean have tested a system to warn them of approaching tsunamis. Read more here . Here's a handy animation that shows how the Asian Tsunami happened. Click on the picture below!

Printable Maps of the United States.

Tarn (lake) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Triad Lake in Glacier Peak Wilderness (click picture for wiki page and image credits) A tarn (or corrie loch) is a mountain lake or pool, formed in a corrie excavated by a glacier. A moraine may form a natural dam below a tarn. (A corrie may be called a cirque.) More images of tarns here. via Google image search This is a page with a picture and a map showing the steep back wall (notice that the contours are very close together). See the definition of a cirque from the Illustrated Glossary of Alpine Glacial Landforms

DOZENS of the world’s cities, including London and New York, could be flooded by the end of the century, according to research which suggests that global warming will increase sea levels more rapidly than was previously thought. London 'under water by 2100' as Antarctica crumbles into the sea

Ever wonder what a Drumlin was? Here's a glossary featuring all the terms you might associate with glaciers, from the website All About Glaciers .

The Northern California earthquake of April 18, 1906, commonly referred to as the “Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906", is the most damaging earthquake in US history. This virtual tour utilizes the geographic interactive software Google Earth to explain the scientific, engineering, and human dimensions of this earthquake, so as to help you visualize and understand the causes and effects of this and future earthquakes. USGS Earthquake Hazards Program » A Virtual Tour of the 1906 Earthquake in Google Earth

Interesting stuff here, will investigate later and post a review. :) Welcome to the GeographyPages - home of Geo Blogs

The government is to give England's schools almost £2m over two years to encourage children to study geography. Maybe they should start reading Geography Resources Online! BBC NEWS | Education | £2m to halt decline in geography

From Wired News, here are America's Most Polluted Cities

"British suburbs are being neglected and need to be nurtured" according to a think tank. Suburbs 'in need of renovation' Recommendations will include the creation of more communal spaces and the setting up of car-washing circles.

Molten rock below the surface of the earth is called magma. When this molten rock erupts onto the surface, it is called lava. The type of lava is determined by the percentage of silica in the lava. This page explains more about types of lava .

A hydrothermal vent is a fissure in a planet's surface from which geothermally heated water is released. Hydrothermal vents are commonly found in places that are also volcanically active, where hot magma is relatively near the planet's surface, e.g. at mid-ocean ridges. Here is a definition and more information: Hydrothermal vent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ...and here are some pictures of hydrothermal vents from Google, and this an extended description that you might find helpful...   A hydrothermal vent is a fissure or opening in the Earth's crust where hot water, minerals, and gases are released from the Earth's mantle into the ocean.  These vents are typically found near areas of tectonic activity, such as mid-ocean ridges, where magma rises to the surface and heats the surrounding seawater.   Hydrothermal vents can reach temperatures of over 400°C (752°F) and release a variety of chemicals, including hydrogen sulphide, methane, and iron sulphide...

Everyone who has been to the beach knows that seawater is salty. Everyone also knows that fresh water in rain, rivers, and even ice is not salty. Why are some of Earth’s waters salty and others not? Why is the sea salty?

Tony Philpotts via msnbc ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopian, American and European researchers have observed a fissure in a desert in the remote northeast that could be the "birth of a new ocean basin". Scientists watch for birth of a new sea

Photo Gallery by Jean-Pierre Scherrer

Need a GB outline for a report? Want to show what county you live in? Look no further! Ordnance Survey is now providing a selection of free, downloadable, basic small-scale maps of Great Britain for you to use for your own purpose. GB outlines with and without administrative boundaries are available in EPS, TIF, PDF, GIF and WMF format; download the style and format of your choice to use in your word processing, presentation or graphics application. Free downloadable outline maps

There are some good web sites explaining this: http://www.angliacampus.com/tour/sec/geog/coastal/page07.htm Detailed explanation of headland development http://www.rgs.edu.sg/events/geotrip/bay.html Excellent on the formation of headland and bays with animations http://www.rgs.edu.sg/events/geotrip/stack.html Excellent on the development of caves, arches and stacks on headlands with animations http://www.angliacampus.com/tour/sec/geog/coastal/page07.htm#14 Detailed explanation and photos of headland development

Interactive animations from the BBC. Find out why the Gulf Stream might slow and how the greenhouse effect works. Here .