Theme 2 Case Studies

Question 0

Case study 8) an ecosystem

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Costa rica is in central america/bordering Nicaragua and Panama.

Question 1

Case study 7) extreme weather event

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Myanmar is. Low pressure weather event (cyclone nargis). Myanmar is located in south east Asia on the bay of Bengal

Question 2

Case study 9) Deaertification

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Mali and Niger are in west Africa and parts of the hahel dessert. Mali is north the equator and south of the tropic of cancer and has a savannah grassland ecosystem .

Question 3

Case study 10) river flood regional scale

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The river severn is the longest river in the uk and goes through Worstershite, Shropshire and Gloucestershire

Question 4

Case study 11) river flood local scale

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Tewkesbury is a town in a the region of Gloucestershire. In 2007 there was floods here because the confluence of the river avon and severn is in tewkesbury so the river discharge here is high

Question 5

Case study 12) coastal management regional scale

Answer 5

The holderness coastline is along the east coastline of England in Yorkshire and stretches along to the river humber mouth in the south