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Caught In Geog

Caught in Geog is a pretty comprehensive for your H1/H2 Geography needs. Summaries, essay outlines, case studies etc. for your perusal. Kudos to Stacy for setting this up, and for sharing your work!

Add comment February 1, 2009

ITCZ

About the ITCZ and how it influences the monsoon circulation in Asia.

Right now it’s missing the two diagrams for the winter and summer monsoons.

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Add comment October 21, 2007

Litho: Examples

After the jump: a list of examples to use for litho

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Add comment October 17, 2007

Urban Transport

A one page summary on urban transport problems, causes and solutions

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Add comment October 8, 2007

L3s: Urban Geography

Updated: 07/10/07
Changelog: Added in a section for urban transport

Examples to use for Urban Geog to get your L3 marks! I’m sure there are much more, but these are the ones that I could find, but if you think there’s something really worth adding in here, do leave a comment!

I need to make a qualifier here. Manila may or may not be primate, depending on how you look at it. The fact remains that Manila City is not the largest in Philippines; rather, that honour goes to Quezon City, with Manila trailing a far second.

This stems from the fact that the Philippines has a rather confusing way of dividing their country into regions, provinces, cities, municipalities and barangays. That said, it is the National Capital Regions (NCR) – also known as the Manila Metro, or, simply, Manila (without ”city”) - that is primate so Manila (not the city) is, may be considered a “primate region” – that, of course, depending on what you’re comparing it to. It’s primate compared to the next city outside the NCR – but that confuses us even more because the NCR is home to around 11.3 million people. The next largest region is CALABARZON which is home to some 9.3 million people. Simple math would tell you that 11.3 million is barely twice 9.3 million. So is Manila primate? Your call.

My opinion? Use Bangkok as an example. It’s some 21 times larger than the next largest city, Nonthaburi. Can’t go wrong there.

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9 comments September 30, 2007

Physical Geography: Cues

A list of cue questions and pointers that might be helpful in revising physical geography.
Update: They’re all on one page now. I removed some useless points from Hydro (so I could fit it on one page), and included a download of a .zip of all three files.

Lithospheric Processes, Hazards and Management (39kb)
Atmospheric Processes, Hazards and Management (30kb)
Hydrological Processes, Hazards and Management (40kb)

Add comment September 16, 2007

Urban/Population Geography Summaries

by Pear Reimin (more notes over at her site)

Update: Population geography notes now in .zip format. If anyone has any idea why the original .doc is a whopping 2mb large, do tell me. If it helps, I converted it from a .docx. Leave a comment if you have any ideas, thanks!

These files are rather huge and amount to around 30 pages each. But they provide excellent overviews if you haven’t studied these two topics of human geography at all. ;)

Population Geography [.zip] (119kb)
Urban Geography (202kb)

4 comments September 9, 2007

Essay Outline: Future Forms of Cities

N2006
b) What priorities are likely to influence the future form of cities in EMDCs? [16]

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Add comment August 24, 2007

Atmospheric Processes

by Rayner Teo

Covers the following:
Earth’s energy budget
Regional temperature variations
Forces influencing air movement
The tri-cellular model
Winds, ITCZ, currents
Seasonal climatic variations

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Add comment August 10, 2007