IB Topo mapping - shapes of settlements

Have a look at the following website and categorise the settlements shown into different shapes. Use your notes to help you. 

http://www.acadat.com/HLC/HLCTowy/Towyvalleymap.htm

IGCSE Form 5 Drought research

Your task is to produce a report, no longer than  page which examines drought in a LEDC. The questions you must answer to provide content in your report are as follows:

1.What is drought and are there different types?

2.Find a LEDC that has experienced drought or is currently experiencing drought.  In the country of your choice describe and explain the following:- 

a)When did the drought start and how long has it lasted so far/did it last?

b)What were the causes of the drought? Was it just a lack of rainfall or were other factors involved?

b)What human and physical effects did/has it have/had?

c)How was/how is the problem going to be solved?

Make sure that you include a map and photographs. 

Form 4 Homework

Hi everyone

The homework task is to produce a page of research in Word or Publisher which answers the following 2 questions:

1.What is a delta? 

2.Why are deltas important?

Please write your research in your own words and include photographs and maps.  Think about the economic benefits of this river landform to people and societies.  I would prefer it if you could print out the work yourselves rather than emailing it to me. 

Any problems email me!

Form 4 Spelling and definition test

Hi everyone

Here are the terms that you need to learn for a test this week:

Impermeable	A rock that will not allow water to pass through it
Porous	A rock containing tiny pores that allow water to be stored
Saturation	When all the pores have been filled with water in the ground
Limestone	A type of sedimentary rock
Interception	When vegetation prevents precipitation from reaching ground level
Meander	A river bend
Hydraulic action	Erosion caused by the force of water breaking off pieces of rock
Suspension	A process of transportation in which material is picked up and carried along in the water itself
Igneous	A rock formed by magma cooling within the earth’s crust or by lava cooling on the surface
Infiltration	The point at which water passes into the ground
Sedimentary	A rock that has been laid down in layers
Attrition	Erosion caused when rocks and material bump together in a river and break up into smaller pieces
Wetted perimeter	Where water comes into contact with the river banks and bed
Metamorphic	A rock that has been altered by extremes of heat and pressure
Permeable	A rock that will alow water to pass through it
Discharge	The velocity of the water x its volume at a given point in the river
Delta	An area of silt deposited by a river when it enters a lake or sea
Velocity	The speed of the river
Ox-bow lake	A crescent-shaped lake formed after a river cuts through the neck of a meander
Corrasion	Erosion caused by the rubbing of material carried by rivers
Evapotranspiration	The loss of moisture from vegetation
Saltation	A method of transportation where small particles are ‘bounced’ along the river bed
Interlocking spur	A series of spurs that project alternately from the sides of a V-shaped valley
Corrosion	Erosion caused by acids in rivers dissolving rocks
Weathering	The breaking down of rocks in situ
Deposition	The laying down of material previously transported by a river