Geography Essays

Net accumulation and net ablation together make up the glacial budget. Net accumulation occurs at higher altitudes and therefore lower temperatures, meaning less melting of ice and a larger build up of snow. This area is called the zone of net accumulation. In the winter snow builds up to become …

Section 1 – Applied understanding Why? We are doing this study to test all the text book theories. It brings all the ideas that we read in a book to real life, we can see exactly what happens for ourselves we get the chance to record the results ourselves also …

The purpose of this study is to decide whether the hypothesis ‘water flows faster and is deeper on the outside edge of a meander curve’ is true or not. To do this I have collected a lot of data about the river Wye. I will use this data such as …

Aim In our enquiry we are going to investigate how the Breamish’s Characteristics change from source to mouth. We are going to see which aspects of the river will change. The aspects that we will be measuring are going to be whether or not the velocity, bedload, bedload shape or …

Drainage basins are areas in which water drains from higher land to lower land and eventually meets the sea or a lake. Water that flows on top of land along a certain path is said to be in a channel. The argument in this essay is whether drainage basins and …

The flooding of rivers is a natural and essential part of river basin processes and is only a hazard because they can affect people’s lives. Flooding occur when a large volume of water enters a river system quickly and cannot be contained within the river channel. By analysing a river …

The title I have chosen for my coursework is “rivers in rural areas are much more natural than those in urban areas”. I have chosen this title mainly because it interests me more than the other titles. This is the only physical topic, and so it interests me more than …

Here is a detailed view of the drainage basin of the Whitewell Brook. The drainage basin is clearly marked with the thick red line. Describing the characteristics of the Whitewell Brook drainage system. The Whitewell Brook drainage system is in the Pennines. It is a very complex system that flows …

Rivers dominate the landscape all over the world, producing widespread changes and affecting human and physical environments in many ways. Rivers are hugely variable because of factors such as climate, geology and human influences, but most follow similar patterns and have similar processes. Understanding these processes is essential for humans …

Hydrological cycle is the continuous cycle of water between the land, sea and atmosphere. A River is a very important part of the hydrological cycle; it is a form of surface run-off. For this course work I will be studying rivers. The river that I will be study is the …