Case studies Kay's AS & A2 Geography

This is a list of case studies available on this website. Some of these approach the status of a 'virtual field trip', such as Swallow Pond, but others require a bit more work from surfers.

	Swallow Pond is a Northumbria Wildlife Trust nature reserve. It is a shallow lowland pond and the site is part of the Rising Sun Country Park, North Tyneside. Particularly relevant for WJEC Small Ecosystems module.	[back to top]
	Newcastle upon Tyne is the historic focus of the Tyneside metropolitan region. Useful links to city council's ward profiles, details of major developments and redevelopment schemes. The Quayside and Going for Growth. WJEC Growth and decline in an urban area module. Residential areas website.	[back to top]
Dell Woods, Speyside - Pine ecosystem	Scots pine native coniferous forest Links for Dell Woods, Abernethy Forest (Forest of Spey), Cairngorms. Includes links for podsol soil. WJEC AS Small Ecosystems module.	[back to top]
Thames Gateway	Thames Gateway Proposals for the expansion of London eastwards with a series of new townships to relieve overcrowding in the capital and provide affordable homes. A "linear city" along 40 miles of the Thames to Essex and Kent could lead to around 200,000 new houses over the next 15 years. Transport and flood risk implications. AS Rural Change module.	[back to top]

Major regions	Sub-Saharan Africa for food supply and development issues. Food security Darfur. Brazil for development issues, urban environments and the Amazonian rainforest biome (all A2). The Colorado Basin Extensive set of links for the most controversial river in the United States (A2 Water Resources).	[back to top]
Features	The effects of a woodland on microclimate some notes on a neglected topic (AS Small ecosystems). Sand dunes including links to Aberlady Bay and a dune trip to North Wales (AS Small Ecosystems). Flood events - Bangladesh 2004 and Mississippi 1993 (AS Drainage basins) Rural Northumberland (AS Rural Change). Tectonics - Plate theory and case study links for earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis (AS Global tectonic processes). Water supply issues in the USA featuring the Colorado (A2 Water Resources). Coasts UK links for classic areas such as Holderness (Spurn Head), East Fife (St Andrews) and Reculver (A2 Geomorphology). Food security report assignment (A2 Food Supply). Globalisation including focus on the fashion industry (A2 Economic Activities). Curitiba - Brazil's green city? (A2 Urban Environments) Earth Summit Jo'burg, South Africa 2002.	[back to top]
Techniques	Glossary of command words for exams. Designing a questionnaire. Individual investigation (GG6). Using postcodes to get spatial information. Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. Skills for GG3 (AS).	[back to top]