Edexcel Unit 4: Geographical Research

Well this unit is a bit odd in we have to find our own resources, so I thought maybe we could share good sources and case studies between us!
I'm doing tectonic environments only, what topics do other people have?

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Reply 1

HannahBanana1995

Great idea! Lots of people seem to be doing tectonics by the sound of it :smile:

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Reply 2

AKell17

Original post by HannahBanana1995

Great idea! Lots of people seem to be doing tectonics by the sound of it :smile:

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We've been told 4 earthquakes, 4 volcanoes and 4 tsunamis with 2 LICs and 2 HICs for each :smile:

Reply 3

BWCW

Subbed - we don't start on U4 at my school until the spring term ( :angry:

) but I'll being doing Consuming the Rural Landscape ( :angry:

again), so it'll be nice to keep tabs on what everyone else is doing! :smile:

Reply 4

AKell17

Original post by Paramore<3

Subbed - we don't start on U4 at my school until the spring term ( :angry:

) but I'll being doing Consuming the Rural Landscape ( :angry:

again), so it'll be nice to keep tabs on what everyone else is doing! :smile:

We started on Unit 4 and we're finishing it next week to concentrate on Unit 3 for most of the year!

Reply 5

AKell17

Can't get research from the USGS site because its a government thing and is currently shut down D:

Reply 6

simibean

Original post by AKell17

Can't get research from the USGS site because its a government thing and is currently shut down D:

I have needed access to this website, but I can not use it! How annoying!

Reply 7

AKell17

Original post by simibean

I have needed access to this website, but I can not use it! How annoying!

Darn those unruly colonies -.-

Reply 8

AKell17

Done it! Case studies finished!

Earthquakes: Haiti (2011), Kobe (1995), L'Aquila (2009), Sichuan (2008)

Volcanoes: Mount Etna (various years), Pinatubo (1991), Nevado del Ruiz (1985), Eyjafjallajokull or 'The Icelandic Volcano' (2011)

Tsunami: Indian Ocean (2004), Java (2006), Samoa (2009), Japan (2011)

Case studies for tectonic hazards - variation of MEDCs and LEDCs ^-^

Reply 9

simibean

Could someone please tell me what the cost was for the Montserrat 1996-7 volcano?

Reply 10

AKell17

I don't know if anybody else went to a Tectonic Hazards conference but I found it really interesting! There was this talk on how climate change is affecting tectonic hazards and I thought it was really good :smile:

Reply 11

lala121

Can someone tell me how to revise for this unit? I'm doing life on the margins and I have got several case studies but just don't know how to organise them and revise. Any help would be nice.

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Reply 12

AKell17

Original post by lala121

I'm doing tectonic hazards: I'm revising case studies by trying to condense the information to one A4 summary sheet!

Reply 13

lala121

Original post by AKell17

I'm doing tectonic hazards: I'm revising case studies by trying to condense the information to one A4 summary sheet!

I wish I did Tectonic Hazards -_- There is a lot of people doing it meaning more resources....

Reply 14

BWCW

Original post by lala121

I wish I did Tectonic Hazards -_- There is a lot of people doing it meaning more resources....

I know how you feel. :frown:

I'm doing Consuming the Rural Landscape, and to top it off we don't start the unit until spring!

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Reply 15

lala121

Original post by Paramore&lt

I know how you feel. <img src="images/smilies/frown.png" border="0" alt="" title=" :frown:

" smilieid="11" class="inlineimg" /> I'm doing Consuming the Rural Landscape, and to top it off we don't start the unit until spring!

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I dont understand why some teacher pick these kind of options??????

Reply 16

moggington

Original post by lala121

I dont understand why some teacher pick these kind of options??????

I was told that it's relevant to their own specialisms. Our two teachers are at the extremes of physical and human geography, so we have the tectonics topic and the culture topic to choose between. I wanted to do the food security one but they won't let me self-teach it.

Reply 17

Snufkin

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I've just started the A2, four months behind you lot so I have a lot of catching up to do. I don't have a teacher so do I choose which topics I will do for unit 4 myself? :frown:

Reply 18

AKell17

Original post by Samual

I've just started the A2, four months behind you lot so I have a lot of catching up to do. I don't have a teacher so do I choose which topics I will do for unit 4 myself? :frown:

Well I suppose so... I'd choose tectonic hazards if I were you!