Geography revision

Geography revision

1. DEVELOPMENT

   • DEVELOPMENT IS THE PROSSES OF CHANGING PLACES BETTER, BUT THIS DOES NOT MEAN IMPROVING PEOPLE'S LIVES BETTER.
   • INDICATES WHETHER A PLACE IS VERY DEVELOPED OR UNDEVELOPED.
   • THE ADVANTAGES OF THESE INDICATORS IS THAT IT TELLS YOU HOW DEVELOPED A PLACE IS, TELLS YOU THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN THAT AREA AND OTHER STUFF. HOWEVER THESE INDICATORS ONLY FOCUSES ON THE AVERAGE AND YET SOME PLACES IN AN UNDEVELOPED COUNTRIES MAY ALREADY BE VERY DEVELOPED.
   • THE DIFERENCES EXISTS (IN RELATION TO THE DEVELOPEDMENT OF THE INDICATORS) DUE TO THE ECONOMY, HISTORY AND THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC OF THE PLACE.
   • DEPENDENCY ON EXPORT MAY LEAD TO ECOMOMICAL PROBLEMS AS LOANS MAY GROW AS INTERESTS. INSTEAD OF ACTUALLY GAINING MONEY THEY LOSSES MONEY DUE TO LOAN INTERESTS.

2. GLOBALISATION AND TOURISM

   • GLOBALISATION IS THE WAY COMPANIES AND LIFESTYLE ARE SPREADING AROUND THE WORLD WITH INCREASING EASE.
   • BENEFITS OF GLOBALISATION
     • They make jobs for unemployed. Taxes makes profits for the government of the country. it helps countries develop. Stuff made cheaper for the people.
   • DISADVANTAGES OF GLOBALISATION
     • The disadvantages of globalisation is that it ruins of unemploy people's jobs in MEDCs as the TNC find an new way of getting money in a LEDCs place. Cultures in LEDCs are being eroded away as development are being built like the ones in MEDCs. Environmentalists are also not happy as the development are destroying the beautiful scenery of the environment.

3. LOCAL ACTIONS, GLOBAL EFFECTS

   • The main causes of global effects are water vapor, the most abundant greenhouse gas, but importantly, it acts as a feedback to the climate. Carbon dioxide (CO2). A minor but very important component of the atmosphere, carbon dioxide is released through natural processes such as respiration and volcano eruptions and through human activities such as deforestation, land use changes, and burning fossil fuels.Methane. A hydrocarbon gas produced both through natural sources and human activities, including the decomposition of wastes in landfills, agriculture, and especially rice cultivation, as well as ruminant digestion and manure management associated with domestic livestock. And so many more
   • National Park is a large area protected by law for the benefit of everybody.
   • The most immediate threats are regional warming, ocean acidification and loss of sea ice, all linked to global levels of carbon dioxide. Sea ice cover, crucial to the survival of virtually every animal that lives on and near the continent, already has been reduced by warming, according to a new study published in the July 13 issue of the journal Science.
   • To accelerate the reduction of permanent pollution from all sources - To reduce the risk of accidents and spillages - To improve hydrological and other conditions of the river

4. Physical system

   • The Earth's rocky outer crust solidified billions of years ago, soon after the Earth formed. This crust is not a solid shell; it is broken up into huge, thick plates that drift atop the soft, underlying mantle. The plates are made of rock and drift all over the globe; they move both horizontally (sideways) and vertically (up and down).
   • Conservative bounderies occur where plates slide or, perhaps more accurately, grind past each other along transform faults. Constructive occur where two plates slide apart from each other. Destructive or active margins occur where two plates slide towards each other commonly forming either a subduction zone (if one plate moves underneath the other) or a continental collision (if the two plates contain continental crust). Collision bounderies happen when two continental plates collide that’s when Mountains form.
   • Earthquakes happen by faulting, a sudden lateral or vertical movement of rock along a rupture (break) surface. They are measured by applainces called seismometers recorded how big in the ritcher scale.
   • THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF VOLCANOES:
     • The other big type is a composite volcano. This type of volcano is usually what you think of as a volcano. It's shaped like a cone and mainly made up of ash, which has piled up and compacted over the years. You'd find these volcanoes in subduction zones like Mount Ararat in Turkey. The stuff that comes out is smaller. There's not so much lava but lots of small rocks and a lot of ash
     • Shield volcanoes are usually found in the middle of tectonic plates.
   • People live where the jobs are, the jobs are where other people are and where goods and services are most needed - people tend to concentrate in cities tat were established along trade routes (along large rivers and coastal ports. It just so happens that many places like this are prone to natural disasters. People don't choose natural disaster-prone areas, it's just an unfortunate consequence of where the best places to live are.