Archive for February, 2010

Coral Reefs

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Photo from flickr.com by Androfire (Some rights reserved) From the IGCSE syllabus: Describe the conditions required for the development of coral reefs. Describe •  fringing and barrier reefs • atolls Describe the location of coral reefs, and the necessary conditions for their development: http://library.thinkquest.org/C0125204/about/coraldist.swf http://www.mbgnet.net/salt/coral/where.htm http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/coral/habdiscr.html http://www.starfish.ch/reef/reef.html http://www.marinebio.net/marinescience/04benthon/crform.htm Understand and make brief notes on how [...]

Sand Dune Processes

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Photo from flickr.com by mikebaird [Some rights reserved] The IGCSE Syllabus requires us to understand this: Describe and explain the landforms associated with these processes. You should study the following coastal landforms: □ coastal sand dunes The action of wind in shaping coastal sand dunes should also be understood. Here are four good websites to [...]

Uses of the Amazon Rainforest

Monday, February 1st, 2010

How are people using the rainforests? You need to choose one of these groups who are using the Amazon rainforest in some way: a) Amazon indians (e.g. Kayapo Indians) b) Miners of Iron Ore (e.g. at the Carajas Iron Ore Mine) c) New Settlers (also known as colonists or colinistas tehse are farmers who were [...]

Output, Costs, Revenue and Profit

Monday, February 1st, 2010

[Image: nDevilTV  Some rights reserved] The Cambridge IGCSE syllabus requires us to have a good understanding of the following: define total and average cost, fixed and variable cost and perform simple calculations; analyse particular situations to show changes in total and average cost as output changes; define total and average revenue and perform simple calculations; [...]