Extreme Environments - Case studies and examples
Required case studies
Required case studies
- Case study of one cold environment to illustrate the issues [opportunities and challenges for mineral extraction in cold environments]
- geographyalltheway.com > Alaska and the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline
- Case study of one arid environment to illustrate the issues [opportunities and challenges for mineral extraction in arid environments]
- geographyalltheway.com > Uranium Mining in Niger
- One case study illustrating the human and physical dimensions of desertification
- geographyalltheway.com > Great Green Wall
- One case study to highlight the issues [Increasing competition for access to resources in extreme environments]
- geographyalltheway.com > Increasing competition for access to resources
Required detailed examples
Required detailed examples
- Detailed examples for illustrative purposes [How relief, climate, human discomfort, inaccessibility, and remoteness present challenges for human habitation and resource development]
- geographyalltheway.com > The characteristics of extreme environments
- Detailed examples illustrating the involvement of local and global stakeholders [Opportunities and challenges for tourism in extreme environments]
- geographyalltheway.com > The Chamonix Valley, France and Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Suggested examples [as an absolute minimum]
Suggested examples [as an absolute minimum]
- Unit EE.1
- Locations within and countries that have cold and high altitude environments (polar, glacial areas, periglacial areas, high mountains in non-polar places)
- Locations within and countries that have hot arid environments (hot deserts and semi-arid areas)
- Examples of relief and climatic characteristics that make environments extreme
- Arid environment locations that experience unreliability and intensity of rainfall
- An example of flash floods in an arid environment
- A glacier this is retreating
- A location experiencing natural desertification
- Unit EE.2
- Named and located examples of a cirques/corries, a glacial lake, pyramidal peak, arêtes glacial trough, erratics; and a glacial area that has lateral, medial and terminal moraine
- Named and located examples of periglacial landscape features, including permafrost, thermokarst, patterned ground and pingos
- Named and located examples of hot, arid landscape features, including dunes, wadis, rock pedestals, mesas and buttes
- Unit EE.3
- Unit EE.4