Geography Links

Geography teaching sites:
The Geography Exchange (Links to useful sites, fieldwork skills, etc.)
Staffordshire Learning Net site: excellent web encores, sets of photos etc.

Population:
US Census site - Draws population pyramids for any country with future predictions
Hampstead School Geography Department's population enquiry - fantastic!
Princeton's Population Clock
University of California's (Berkeley) population clock.

Skills:
The Geography Exchange's guide to questionnaire design. (Useful for A-Level).

Maps:
University of Texas (Austin) Map collection
Multimap.com
Getmapping.com (aerial photos)

Bangladesh:
Bangladesh Online

Brazil:
Oregon University's Page on Brazil
Brazil Infonet - Geography of Brazil
The BBC's GCSE Bitesize - Cities in LEDCS

Rainforests:
The Rainforest Action Group
Philip Stott's myth-challenging tropical ecology site (down at present)
Monitoring Amazonia by satellite
Enchanted Learning online - All about rainforest
An Amazon Adventure - The rainforest
An Amazon Adventure - Animals
An Amazon Adventure - Plants
Animals of the Rainforest - Rainforest ecology and food webs
Amazon Interactive - The Eco-tourism Game

Kenya:
The Home page for the Masai-Mara

Weather:
University of Illinois - Clouds and Precipitation
The BBC's weather site
The official Met-Office site

Volcanoes:
Volcano World
North Dakota University's Volcano information.
Canada's Volcanoes
The United States Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Lancaster University Volcanology and Geohazards Research Group
Montserrat Volcano Observatory official releases concerning the situation at Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat, West Indies

Earthquakes:
EQE Disaster Reports Archive
The United States Geological Survey hazards information
The Geography Exchange - The Structure of the Earth
The United States Geological Survey Earthquake hazards program - North California
The Institute for Crustal Studies - The Oak Ridge fault and the Ventura Basin
Hampstead School Geography Department's Kobe earthquake investigation worksheet.

Global Warming:
Environmental Defense
The Sierra Club's global warming campaign
NOVA online "Water World" (What would happen if the ice sheets melted)
Friends of the Earth - Climate Change
DEFRA's global warming page. Information for Key Stages 2 and 3, and information for parents and teachers.

Development:
Infonation - Population/development graphs
The United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Statistics Division

UK data:
National Statistics
Upmystreet. com - A real-life guide to your neighborhood

National Data:
Infonation - Population Graphs
The US census page.
CensusIndia
Statistics Indonesia

Hurricanes:
NOAA - Hurricanes
Hurricane Basics
Hurricane Preparedness Basics
Hurricane Basics Summary
Hurricane Origins
Hurricane Hazards
Hurricane Observation
Hurricane Forecasting
Hurricane Mitch Information
National Weather Service, National Hurricane Centre, Tropical Prediction Centre
The Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Hurricane Images

Flooding:
The BBC's GCSE Bitesize - Flooding and River Management

News sites:
The Times
The Telegraph
The BBC news site