Tuesday 29 September 2015

Assignment Homework

1.    Explain how a river can erode the landscape around it (4 marks)

2.    Explain how a river can transport different types of particle (4 marks)

3.    Explain how the following can affect transportation: (3 marks)

a.     Velocity
b.    Particle size
c.     Discharge


4.    Explain how freeze thaw weathering, attrition and geology (rock type) affect pebble shape and size along a river (3 marks)

Tuesday 13 January 2015

Refugee camps in Dadaab have been around since 1991. The camps were originally built to hold 90,000 people but have grown over five times as big over the years. In April 2913 there was over 400,000 registered refugees and over half were younger than 18 years old. The refugee camps have helped thousands of people over the years, it is also the largest and most protracted camp that has been situated in the world. After the food crisis in 2010 the camps population exploded. Because of this the crisis hit conflict-stricken Somalia got hit, the hardest with the conflict but Somalia have flocked the Dadaab camp for this reason. Dadaab is known as the worlds biggest refugee camp, with hundreds if thousand if people who have lost their homes and safety