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

S2 - Rainforest Animal Research

Use the iPads to research an animal that lives in the rainforest. Find out

• what layer does it live in?
• where in the world is it found?
• what does it eat?
• how has it adapted to survive?

Once you have created a factfile in your jotter I want you to post about it on the following page -

http://padlet.com/ichsgeography/ichsgeography

Higher/Nat 5 homework for Monday 16.06.14

Explain, with the aid of a diagram, the formation of

a) a corrie

b) an arete

c) a u-shaped valley

d) a ribbon lake

A wind farm is a area of land covered with turbines, these turbines produce power by the wind turning the three blades at the top, This power is used to power certain place around the wind farm for example house, factory's and stores in certain situations.

The benefits of having a wind farm are :-

~It is a free type of power that can never run out

~there are more jobs

The down side of having a wind farm are :-

~when building the wind farm it disturbs the wild life and effects the landscape however after the wind farm is built, the company's try to protect the wild life as best as they can

~people that walk up trails might not want to walk up the same ones as the wind farm might destroy the experience of the environment

~it costs a lot of money to build awind farm

Wind Farms

Wind power is a renewable source of energy which means that it can not run out, it uses turbines to create electricity, wind power is found all over the world but mostly in the USA and the UK.
Wind farms are usually put in exposed areas e.g on top of a hill, flat land with nothing to obstruct the wind, wind farms should be close to roads so they are accessible for maintenance and construction work.

Some advantages to wind farms are: it would never run out, requires less maintenance than traditional generators, costs less, it produces little or no waste.
Some disadvantages: it is difficult to generate the quantities of electricity, renewable energy often relies on the weather on its source  of power.

Lucy

Wind farms

 Their are positive and negative views to Wind farms, Some people say wind farms are good because it means the country is using more renewable energy, where as other as saying that wind farm aren't good because they spoil scenery and affects tourists.

  Wind farms are a sorce of renewable energy that can power 6million homes in a year and encore to supply 1,500 average EU household electricity 

   For a Wind farm to co-operate  properly with a community it has to have easily acseseble by roads, near college and universities,  near homes but not to near that it would disturb people, in an area where the land is quite exposed and high up.

   Wind farms help a community by creating more jobs for people, cheaper energy and a lot better for the environment but along with all the good factors their are many bad ones like the space, wand farm can take up a lot of space and can cost a lot to build, spoils scenery for people and many people say that they wouldn't visit or revist any where in Scotland due to wind farms 

Wind farm industry

   Wind farm industry 

What is a wind farm? A wind farm is something that makes electricity and passes it out within places, and a good renewable energy.

Where are the found? Wind farms are usually found on hills and open areas due to them being up to high that can cause to much wind that can put the blades on the turbines in stress that could break them.

Benefits and disadvantages 

Benefits

• Are that the supply a lot of energy and the last about 20 years so that's a lot of energy from something like that 
• The wind is free and with modern technology it can be captured efficiently.
• The are valued as making the landscapes more attractive to some people.
• It's a good place to go out and see like if you were going for a cycle it would be a good place to visit.

Disadvantages 

• Some people don't really like them due to the noise the make but that depends on where there placed.
• the largest single turbine available today can only provide enough electricity for 475 homes, when running at full capacity.
• The strength of the wind is not constant and it varies from zero to storm force. This means that wind turbines do not produce the same amount of electricity all the time. There will be times when they produce no electricity at all.

Some other information

• There are over 5000 wind turbines and 460 wind farms in the UK and growing rapidly as the UK try's to be more Eco-friendly.
• The foundations are really strong as the hold the turbines up and keep them up straight.
• The government are happy to spend money on them as the electricity is being supplied by these turbines.

By Jordan hunter