Geography Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (196) essays
Geography essays:
Regional inequality in Europe as a leading geographical issue"
... peripheral regions. Another example would be the Southern region of Italy where "6 million people migrated from the region between 1950 and 1970" (O'Dwyer, 2000:190). Italy is a good example of regional inequalities. There are three major regions, the Alps, the Plain of ...
Living With Earthquakes - Locations and Tectonic Theory & Coping With Earthquakes
... tectonic plates, made of continental crust collide, and because they are of the same density, they create, either a deep trench, or a high mountain range. An example of such a boundary would be the collision zone between the Indo-Australian Plate and the Eurasian plate, at the Himalayas. Earthquakes ...
Deserts: How are they formed?
... East and the South East trades all blow away from the land drying it out. The winds do this to try and equalize the pressure in the subtropics and the Equator. The movement of air masses have created the two belts of deserts in the Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer ...
Geographical Dispersion: Outline this concept in relation to cultural production and discuss its connections with the concept of post-fordism.
... geographies of location over recent years, in particularly due to advancements in technology and a post-fordist shift in production. Norcliffe and Rendace (2003) use the example of comic book production to examine these changes in more detail, as the comic book industry has undergone rapid changes ...
This an essay showing three case studies on how global climate change affects the developing world.
... Region, south of the Sahara Desert, already suffers form drought and desertification. The area will expand southwards as the climate gets hotter. Following, are three less economically developed countries (LEDCs) that are greatly affected by the forces of Global Climate Change ...
Suomen kalliopera
Maamme korkokuva ja kallioperä Korkeussuhteet Kun käytetään alangon ylärajana 200 metrin korkeustasoa, suurin osa maastamme voidaan lukea alangoksi. 200 metrin ylittäviä seutuja on vain Kainuussa, Koillismaalla ja Lapissa. Mutta Kemijoen vesistön alueella aina Savukoskelle, Sodankylään ja Kittilää ...
Biome: Grasslands
... of the former Soviet Union, and the plains and prairies of central North America. Temperate grasslands have hot summers and cold winters. Rainfall is moderate. The amount of annual rainfall influences the height of grassland vegetation, with taller grasses in wetter regions ...
Pollution
... air to produce sulfuric acid. As there is wind, the sulfuric acid becomes air born, and move to different parts of the Earth. Eventually clouds forms because of the moisture, and then release in forms of ...
Opal This essay discusses some characteristics and history of the opal.
... of green, blue, aqua and sometimes yellowish or red colors which are referred to as fire. Black Opal comes from the Lightning Ridge region of Northern New ...
New Dimensions in Privacy: Spatial Privacy in the Geographic Information Age
... of personal information has created an exponential growth in the potential invasiveness of technologies by injecting new kinds of information into the mix. As adequately noted by Johathan Raper, (2002) "[L]ocational privacy is a new challenge for geographic information science ...