To all JC1 H1 students,
This question bank has been uploaded in response to requests made during consultation. Please download and use for your own revision and practice.
2009 PJC GEOGLOBAL question bank (DRQ) H2
Please study well and all the best for your exams!
Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1917458,00.html
From Farm to Fork
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1917925_1923859,00.html
What The World Eats
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373664,00.html
Urban Farming Around the World
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1913033,00.html
Pop-resource relationship…
The Industrialised Production of Food…
Sustainable Cities/Future cities…
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/environment/0,28757,1602354,00.html
Can one person slow global warming?
To all H2 students,
Here are the 2 tutorials for globalisation. Please download and complete.
Have a good weekend and see you all in school next week.
In German Suburb, Life Goes on Without Cars
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/earth/12suburb.html?_r=1
The urban future?
How Can A Graph Be So Very Wrong?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8000402.stm
Are population projections reliable?
What is H1N1?
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/en/index.html
The ‘Birth’ of H1N1
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/AntigenicShift_HiRes.png
Tracking Swine Flu Cases Worldwide
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/04/27/us/20090427-flu-update-graphic.html
Farmers Fear Pigs May Get Swine Flu From Humans
Medical Geography: History and Overview
http://geography.about.com/od/culturalgeography/a/medicalgeograph.htm
Reinventing America’s Cities: The Time Is Now
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/arts/design/29ouro.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Correcting imbalances through re-imaging.
Volcanoes vs. Volcanic areas
http://www.lampholderpub.com/VolcanoWesternUSPotentiallyActive.gif
Continental and Oceanic Plates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics
List of Major and Minor Plates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tectonic_plates
India Struggles With Hunger – The feature
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/13/world/asia/20090313-malnutrition-audioss/index.html
As India Growth Soars, Child Hunger Persists – Accompanying article
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/world/asia/13malnutrition.html?_r=1
The severity of malnutrition in a developing world.
This is a follow-up post for the Population documentary that was screened last week.
World in the Balance website
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/
Population Paradox Transcripts
Global Warming Interactive
http://globalwarminginteractive.com/
This is a global warming game which explores how economic, social and science policy decisions made may affect the environment through the process of global warming.
In Southeast Asia, Unemployed Abandon Cities for Their Villages
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/world/asia/28asean.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
A ‘forced’ migration brought about by the economic crisis?
Osama bin Laden’s current location
According to Geography Professor Thomas Gillespie of UCLA…
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/02/17/tuesday_map_osama_bin_ladens_current_location
Any takers?
Photos: A History of Multiple Births
http://www.newsweek.com/id/182208
On one hand, some countries are implementing population policies to discourage births. On the other, technology has enabled multiple births…
UK railway stations become ‘No Kissing’ zones!
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-94738.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/18/no-kissing-zones
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/6265905.html
A possible strategy for resolving transport problems?
Australia Fire Toll Could Exceed 20
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/world/asia/11australia.html?ref=world
Bushfires in Victoria kill 14, more deaths feared
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25018722-661,00.html
Ash Wednesday 1983 (El Nino)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday_fires
Fire hazards presently and in the past …
Three Gorges Dam is a disaster in the making, China admits
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2537279.ece
Wikipedia – Three Gorges Dam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam
China’s Three Gorges Dam, by the Numbers
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060609-gorges-dam.html
Yangtze River Dam: Promise or Threat
Look through the interesting arguments.
London buckles under worst snow in 18 years
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0204/p07s02-woeu.html
Canadians pull together under a blanket of snow
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1226/p01s02-wogn.html
More heatwaves likely as climate change worsens
Lightning strikes sparks more bushfires in Victoria
Fish die, monkeys suffer, blankets distributed as cold weather envelops Thailand
http://enews.mcot.net/view.php?id=8194
Record Heat Wave Hits Australia
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1876299,00.html
Freak weather in the last two months …
Made In China Part 1
Made In China Part 2
The 2008 scandal about global goods made in China …
What Will Save the Suburbs?
http://arieff.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/what-will-save-the-suburbs/
A good read of the different issues in the topic of suburbanization.
China’s One Child Policy
http://geography.about.com/od/populationgeography/a/onechild.htm
China: Second Child for Quake Families
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/world/asia/17briefs-SECONDCHILDF_BRF.html?_r=1
Source: The Age
Australia now world’s fattest nation
Health – Life & Style Home – theage.com.au
The World is Fat
http://www.prb.org/Articles/2008/popkinpolicyseminar.aspx
The impact of modernity on humans and global obesity…
