New Key Geography for GCSE Links - Chapter 1 - Rivers

How do rivers shape the land? - pages 6 and 7

Virtual river
http://vcourseware3.calstatela.edu/VirtualRiver/Files/page01a.html
The goal of this online interactive exercise is to introduce you to some basic concepts about how rivers work.

River mapwork activities - page 11

Click on the link to the Multimap website, once you have read the following instructions.
http://www.multimap.com/

1. Use the search engine on the site to locate the same area shown in the two 1:50 000 map extracts. The best place names to use in the search are Hawes and Caerleon. Make sure you select the big map tab from Multimap, and that you have a good match with the extracts provided in the pupil’s book.
2. Copy and paste each map into a DTP file.
3. Use the software tools to annotate the maps with the labels provided in activity 2a) on page 11. You can also label your ideas for activity 2b) onto the maps in the DTP file.
4. If you have time you could repeat the activity but this time annotating aerial photographs of the same areas, by clicking on the aerial photograph button on Multimap to convert the map into a photograph.
5. If you click on the overlay map button on Multimap, you can view the aerial photograph with a moveable OS map overlay, a great way to improve your map skills, when interpreting river landscapes.

What is the hydrological cycle? - pages 12 and 13

UNESCO Water day website
http://www.unesco.org/science/waterday2000/Cycle.htm
This page provides a detailed explanation of the water cycle, including graphics and tables to explain the world’s distribution of water

What are the main causes of river flooding? - pages 16 and 17

Virtual River flooding
http://vcourseware3.calstatela.edu/VirtualRiver/Flooding/index.html
This online tutorial takes the user through the causes of flooding.

Freefoto.com
http://www.freefoto.com/floods/index.asp
This website provides a collection of digital images that can be freely downloaded. It includes a collection of images of flooding in the UK in November 2000.

NASA Visible Earth Images of rivers
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/Hydrosphere/Surface_Water/
NASA Earth Observatory website Flood topic
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?topic=flood
This site provides information and images of the latest areas of flooding around the world.

What were the causes and effects of the Mississippi flood? - pages 18 and 19

US army report about the 1993 Mississippi flood
http://www.mvr.usace.army.mil/PublicAffairsOffice/HistoricArchives/Floodof1993/pafr.htm

Online summary of the Mississippi flood of 1993
http://lists.uakron.edu/geology/natscigeo/lectures/streams/miss_flood.htm

Landsat satellite images of 1993 Mississippi flood
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/rs/tm/flood/

Mississippi flood 1993 satellite images
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/imagewall/LandSat/mississippi.html

What are the causes and effects of river flooding in Bangladesh? - pages 22 and 23

Bangladesh government website about the 1998 flood disaster
http://www.bangladeshonline.com/gob/flood98/
Use this website to help you complete the activities on page 23 of the pupil’s book.

DRIK
http://www.drik.net/
A picture agency in the unlikely location of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Named Drik, the Sanskrit word for vision. This website includes a wide range of articles about world poverty focussed on Bangladesh. There is an impressive array of digital images. The site includes collections of images of flooding in Bangladesh in 1998 and 2000.

Can Bangladesh be protected from flooding? - pages 24 and 25

International River Network
http://www.irn.org/pubs/wp/bangladesh.html
This link provides a summary of a technical review of Bangladesh’s Flood Action Plan. You can use the points made in this summary to help you to complete the activities on page 25 of the pupil’s book.

Detailed outline of the Flood Plan
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/tiempo/floor0/archive/t8art2.htm

UNDP essay Flood Control in Bangladesh: Which Way Now?
http://www.sdnbd.org/sdi/issues/floods_drainage/article/flood%20control%20in%20
Bangladesh.htm
This is a detailed report about the need for flood control in Bangladesh and an analysis of possible approaches.

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