Erika - Elena Dutu Geo Podcast: Recent Episodes
Erika-Elena Dutu
Detailed overview of the hot desert climate, the plants, the soil, the animals, the people and how all of these are interdependent and rely on eachother to survive in hot deserts.
Detailed overview of the physical characteristics of hot deserts, what hot deserts are, where they can be found on the globe, hot desert climate (temperature and rainfall), global circulation and hot desert soils.
Detailed overview of what sustainability is, how rainforests can be managed sustainably, the different methods: selective logging in the Amazon rainforest, afforestation - replanting, conservation, education, ecotourism (example - Juma Lodge in Brazil), interntional agreements, debt reducation and two practice three mark exam questions.
Detailed overview of what are goods and services with some examples, medicines found in the tropical rainforest, global products, how rainforests reduce climate change and adverse weather, biodiversity, ecosystem services and importance of tropical rainforests for people and the environment (6 marks).
Detailed overview of the impact of energy development, impact of climate change, impact of soil erosion, impact of loss habitat, population growth in the Amazon, economic gains and losses, effects of deforestation on environment (6 marks), atmospheric impacts, impact of deforestation on soils and rivers and the impact of all of this as a whole.
Detailed overview of what deforestation is, where the Amazon rainforest is located, how development in tropical rainforests creates economic advantages and the different causes of deforestation: cattle ranching, subsistence farming, logging, road building, mineral extraction, large scale agriculture, soybean cultivation, energy development and settlement and population growth.
Detailed overview of what adaption is, examples of different plants and animals in the tropical rainforest and how they are adapted, some GCSE questions practice, benefits of animals being nocturnal and reasons for adapatations.
Detailed overview of the interdependence of the tropical rainforest, how tropical rainforests are a good example of an interdependent ecosystem, threats to tropical rainforests and the interdependence of climate / soil / water / plants and animals / human activity.
Detailed overview of the climate of the rainforest, rainforest soils, forest structure and layers, why the tropical rainforest biome is important, characteristics of a rainforest, the nutrient and water cycle, vegetation levels, good and services of a rainforest and the plants and animals in the different rainforest layers.
Detailed overview of what a biome is, the distribution of biomes, how climate/temperature/precipitation affect biomes, the global ecosystems and their location and characteristics, global distibution of large scale ecosystems and factors influencing biomes and distribution.
Detailed overview of what is an ecosystem, ecosystems at different scales, food chains and webs, features of a freshwater pond ecosytem, about producers/consumers/decompsers/nutrient cycle, how can changes affect a freshwater pond ecosystem, what causes change to ecosystems (human activities and natural factors) and what is a biome.
Detailed overview of the different renewable resources for the future; including what they are and how they work as well as their advantages and disadvantages- solar energy, wind energy, wave energy, hydro energy, tidal energy, biomass energy and geothermal energy.
Detailed overview about why we need energy, about non-renewable, renewable and recyclable energy resources, about fossil fuels and why they are bad, why there is an increase in demand for energy, which countries use the most and least energy, factors affecting energy supply, impacts of energy insecurity, UK homes average energy uses and advantages and disadvantages of non-renewable energy resources.
Overview about the different techniques to increase food supply - algae, hydroponics, aeroponics, genetically modified foods, vertical farms, organic farming, sustainable fish farming, insects as food and laboratory meat.
Overview of strategies to increase food supply- irrigation, aeroponics, hydroponics, new green revolution, biotechnology, organic farming, urban farming initiatives, sustainable fish and meat, seasonal food consumption and reduction of food waste
Detailed overview about food security, reasons why access to food might not be equal, factors affecting food supply, global pattern of food consumption, why there is increasing global food insecurity, how hunger is measured, impacts of food insecurity and strategies to increase food supply.
Detailed overview of the positve and negative effects of these techniques to help tackle the water issue: dams, rainwater harvesters, desalination and water transfer. Some more information about sustainable water, how we can save water at home, groundwater management, recyling, water conservation and 'grey' water.
Detailed overview about the different water resources, why global water supplies are not evenly distributed, main uses of water, reasons for increasing water consumption, why the USA uses more water than the UK, why the UK uses more water than Ethiopia, case study of Yamuna and Ganges river, where does toxic water come from, how is it harmful and factors affecting water supply.
A detailed overview all about plastic pollution - what is the plastic pollution, how did this happen, plastica by the numbers, how plastics move around the world, microplastics and microfibres, harm to wildlife/humans/environment, how does it get into the sea, how long does it last, how much plastic pollution is there, what is the Great Pacific Garbage patch, can plsstic be good, how does plastic breakdown and reducing/avoiding plastics.
Detailed overview of the future predictions of climate change and the positve and negative effects of climate change. Some information about the IPCC and why it is hard to predict temperatures and sea levels as a result o global warming. Extra contextual knowledge about predictions for future global climate with statistics.
Detailed overview of the human causes of climate change and how these affect the world and the environment we live in. About the natural greenhouse effect and the human enhanced greenhouse effect (energy, industry, transport and farming) and their differences. Also some relevant facts with lots of figures.
A detailed overview of the different separate natural causes that have an impact on climate change. These are: sunspots, milankovitch cycle (earth's orbit, tilt and wobble) and volcanoes. Also some quick information about greenhouse gases and the greenhouse effect.
A detailed overview of ways you can measure changes in climate and having a look at the 3 main ways you can use as evidence of climatic changes in the Earth's past (tree rings, ice cores and historical sources).
An overview with information about mitigating (the action of reducing the severity or impact of something) the effects of tropical storms in relation to people and buildings in the short and long term.
An overview with information about a case study of Hurricane Katrina that took place on 25 August 2005 in New Orleans. Information on what this hurricane was, the social / economical / environmental imapcts, secondary and primary effects, the warnings, things that happened and a timetable of Katrina's approach.
Detailed overview about what tropical storms are, how they form, quick case study of Hurricane Katrina, tropical storm features and development, impacts of climate change on tropical storms, predicting them, tropical storm impacts on low - income developing countries and their responses and why do people still choose to live in hazardous areas.
An overview all about tropical storms including the features and structure of them, information on the different categories of damage caused by a tropical storm, the hurricane hazards and what storm surges are and how they form.
An overview all about tropical storms, what they are in more depth, where they occur in terms of their names in different parts of the world and a detailed overview of how these hazards form.
Assessing a volcanic eruption event and answering a geography GCSE 8 mark question including things about the question, what to include and how to get top marks as well as some other extra information about GCSE geography exam technique.
Detailed overview of how we can reduce the risks of tectonic hazards and looking at the 4 main management strategied - monitoring, predicting, protecting and planning for earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
A detailed overview of the effects of the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland and what the volcanic eruption was exactly.
List of the main dangers due to volcanic eruption and the reasons high levels of population still live in the shadow of these places.
This epsiode is about plate tectonics (convection currents also) and the 4 main plate boundaries that are formed as well as their properties. Rapid look at how and why plates move.
This epsiode is about the introduction to plate tectonics and the structure of the Earth as well as the properties - (what it is like inside the Earth).