Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Geography Revision
- Sustainable Development
- Definition
- Sustainable development is development
that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs
- "Living for today with tomorrow in mind"
- Large organisations
- ASDA/Wal-mart
- Many products are wrapped
in polythene or shrink wrap
- A distribution centre in Oxfordshire used to fill four skips a week
- A company called Mil-tek installed a plastic bailing machine
- The bails are collected once a week by a recycling company
- ASDA now gets money for this and no plastic goes to landfill
- Nokia
- Over 50% of people get a
new phone every year
- 44% of the old phones are kept
in a draw and never used again
- 100% of phones
can be recycled
- They can be made into
trumpet, park benches etc.
- General Electric
- Operates in many
different countries
- By 2012 they will reduce
fresh water usage by 20%
- This will save 7.4 million
cubic meters of water
- Rainforest extraction
- Deforestation - to set up
operations, companies have to
build roads through the forests
- Local conflicts - the locals often
gain the least from projects and
stand to loose the most
- Biodiversity loss - fragmentation
of natural habitats caused by
pipelines can deplete species
populations and sometimes
companies working near protected
areas don't always follow the rules
- Soil and aquatic pollution - lots
of things can go wrong when oil
is mined, spills and toxic
by-products are are sometimes
dumped near the site, polluting
the surroundings
- Air pollution - by products or
natural gas are sometimes burnt,
these can cause air pollution, and
can sometimes cause fires
- Costa Rica
- They are trying to develop
through ecotourism
- They have cleared
trais through the woods
- They are also
developing through
plant life, they
have made a deal
with an american
company called
merck, that they
look for plants that
can be used in
medicine etc. and
the Costa Ricans
get a share of the
money
- Tectonic Activity
- Scales
- Mercalli scale
- The mercalli scale measures how much
damage is done by an earthquake
- It is measured in a
scale between 1 and 12
- Richter scale
- It measures the magnitude of an
earthquake using a seismometer
- It has no upper limit
- It is a longarithimic scale, this means
that a magnitude of 6 on the richter
scale is 10 times bigger than 5 which
is 100 times bigger than four
- Volcanoes
- Can be popular tourist attractions
(e.g. Mount Etna in Sicily)
- People can't afford to move sometimes
- People may not want to
leave family and friends
- People near Mount Merapi in
Indonesia believe that the
spirits protect them
- May not erupt for hundreds of years
- Volcanic soils can be especially fertile
(e.g. the lower slopes of Mount Mayon,
Philippines is covered in plantations
- In Iceland the volcanoes provide
cheap geothermal energy
- Earthquakes
- People feel safer as
buildings can be
earthquake proof
- Some places
can be really
beautiful (e.g.
Malibu,
California)
- People believe the chance of
an earthquake is very low
- Can be popular tourist attractions
- People may consider the risk acceptable
because they get money from their job
- Some people have disaster plans that
tell them what to do in an emergancy
- Plate boundaries
- Constructive/Divergent
- New land is created
- Two plates move apart
- Magma rises to fill the gap
- Since magma can
escape easily, it
doesn't erupt with
much force
- As the two plates move
apart, the magma comes out
and new land is created
- Distructive/Convergent
- Land is destroyed
- Subduction zone - when an
oceanic plate meets a
continental plate, the oceanic
plate goes under as it is heavier
and denser, as it drops down, it
becomes magma, the magma
then rises through the gaps
causing severe folding
- Very explosive
- The friction
can cause
earthquakes
- Conservative/Transform
- Land moves past each other
- No volcanoes occur
- Plates moving in the
same direction tend to
stick and then jerk
forwards sending
shock waves and so
causing earthquakes
- No land is created or destroyed
- Focus, Seismic
waves, Epicentre
- Focus - the
point at
which the
rock moves
- Seismic waves - they start
at the focus and spread
out like ripples on a lake
- Epicentre - directly
above the focus on
the Earth's surface