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Flooding and Hydrographs
This page provides resources and activities that lead students through a series of lessons that look more closely at the relationship between the drainage basin processes and characteristics and the potential...
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2. Flooding and Flood Mitigation Free
These learning activities cover everything in the IB guide for this topic. Lesson plans include resources to use on an interactive whiteboard and worksheets to print. The pages have full student access...
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The Water Budget
This page looks deeper at the water budget or water balance through several resources and graphics. It recaps the hydrological cycle and uses the drainage basin features and models to focus students'...
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Chapter 3g - Natural Resource Availability
Natural resource wealth may be considered both a blessing and a curse. There is no doubt that history tells us that natural resources can be a stimulus for economic growth even through the exploitation...
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Chapter 3f - Geographical Isolation
Geographical isolation can result from natural barriers to trade, such as mountains, oceans and lack of coastlines. Many of the least globally connected countries are either landlocked or small and/or...
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Chapter 3e - Communication and Infrastructure
Communication and infrastructure have revolutionised the global economy in what the OECD refer to as Globalisation 4.0. Advances in communications have created digital villages and connected people and...
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Chapter 3d - Transport Developments
Transport has reduced in price and increased in scale and speed. These developments have led to an acceleration in globalisation, helping create an international division of labour. As a result, there...
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Chapter 3c - Big Data - Small World
The shrinking world which in effect compresses time and distance is most influenced by technology and innovation in data flows and communication. The drivers of this change relate to powers of influence....
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Chapter 3b - Economic Migration Controls and Rules
Countries adopt policies on migration in line with geographical, political and economic constraints and opportunities they face. Many countries are highly integrated and control migration through policies...
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Chapter 3a - MGOs and Free Trade Zones
Multi-governmental Organisations include a diverse range of trade blocs, each serving to provide different levels of economic and political integration, generally to reduce trade barriers and increase...