Wind Farms By Jade And Kiera

Wind Farms                     

Wind farms are lots of wind turbines put together in a large open spaces on land and in water where there is lots of wind that spins the turbines propellers around to create renewable energy. Some downfalls of wind farms are that they are noisy, ruins the landscape, kills birds and wildlife, they deter visitors and destroy habitats. The benefits of wind farms are they are a renewable source of energy, don't pollute the atmosphere,  less carbon dioxide ( CO2 ) admission and don't use up fossil fuels. You can also have wind farms in the sea where the waves help create strong wind currents to spin the turbines.      

By Jade and Kiera

Wind farms Callum and Calum/IceCreamTNT

Wind farms are a renewable source of energy, found in high up windy places and off shore

The main benefits of wind farms include lower CO2 emissions. 

The main disadvantages of wind farms are short term they cost a lot of money but long term they are a spoiler of the country side.

Alex Salmond stated that Scotland should be mostly independent on wind and other renewable energy sources.

S3 - Windfarms Research

Read each of the articles linked below. You are looking to find the benefits and disadvantages of windfarms to rural areas of Scotland.

Remember that it is important to think about who is writing the article or being referenced - is the article biased in any way. What information is fact and what is opinion. Both can be useful but must be used carefully to develop your arguements.

Newspaper Article

Whitelee Wind Farm (for this link you will need to look around the page a little)

Record the benefits and disadvantages in your jotter as you will need these later.

S1 - Tuesday period 7

Use the iPads to research what happened to Flight MH370. Post up any information you find on the following page-

http:/padlet.com/wall/eg9bjrydz8

S3 - Gulf of Mexico Carousel

For investigating the environmental impact of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill start with this article from Channel 4 news -

Channel 4 Article

Now try to find other news articles as well to try and minimise the risk of inaccuracies. Try to analyse the sources to decide which are more useful and reliable. Webpages that end with .edu are academic pages from universities.

Lastly, find images showing the spread of the oil in the Gulf of Mexico and annotate this on to your blank map

Higher Homework for Monday 18.11.13

1. Describe and explain changes in the demographic transition model from stages 1 to 3 (12 marks)

2. Account for high brith rates in developing countries such as Niger and Chad (8 marks)

3. Explain the difficulties countries might face undertaking a census (10 marks)

4. Explain why some areas of the world are more sparsely populated than others (8 marks)

Higher Homework for Wednesday 10.10.13

Q1. Explain the formation of an ox-bow lake (8 marks)

Q2. Explain the formation of a waterfall (8 marks)

Remember to look at your feedback from your last homework and amend any areas which were not completed fully.