This text contains differentiated activities for all ability students, from Foundation level through to Higher tier GCSE and AS and A level Geography. The activities use a wide variety of resources, including soil maps, land use maps, tetonic maps, and synoptic charts. It features a spiral-bound format for flexibility and ease of use.

 

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 128 pages in this book. This is a book of maps. This book was published 2002 by Oxford University Press .

Simon Ross is a Head of Geography at Queen's College, Taunton, and an experienced author.

This book has the following chapters: Global tectonics - the Atlantic/Pacific region; volcanic activity - Soufriere hills, Montserrat; granite landscapes -Sheepstor, Dartmoor; limestone scenery - Malham, North Yorkshire; landslide hazard - Huascaran, Peru; coastal erosion - Lulworth Cove area, Dorset; coastal defence - Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire; coastal deposition - Blakeney Point, Norfolk; coastal tourism and hurricane mitigation - Miami Beach USA and Lamai, Thailand; glaciation - the Fox glacier, New Zealand; glacial landscapes - the Cairngorms, Scotland; periglaciation 1 - Thaw lakes, Barrow, Alaska, USA; periglaciation 2 - Tuktoyaktuk, Canada; glacial deposition - Glen Shee, Scotland; the river Tees, north-east England; the river Tees 1 - high force waterfall; the river Tees 2 - meanders near Darlington; the river Tees 3 - the river mouth and industrial development on Teesside; desert landscapes - Wadi Rum, Jordan; hurricane - Hurricane Mitch, Central America 1998; weather maps 1 - depression over the UK; weather maps 2 - an anticyclone over north-west Europe; global warming - global warming and the Maldive Islands; industrial location - Nissan car plant, Washington, Tyne and Wear; urban charcteristics and fringe development - Cambridge; rural settlements - Burton Fleming and Reighton, Yorkshire Wolds; inner city redevelopment - the Isle of Dogs, London; farming 1 - Lynford House Farm, Manea, Cambridgeshire; farming 2 - intensive farming and airport development in the Netherlands; farming 3 - intensive rice farming in the Philippines; soils and vegetation - coastal sand dunes, Ynyslas, Dyfed; tropical rainforest settlement -Sarawak, Malaysia; city in an LEDC - Lima, Peru.