This document contains a quick summary for case studies that are taught in AQA Geography Paper 1 (8035). It includes the Gorkha Earthquake, Typhoon Haiyan, Amazon Rainforest, Western Desert and many more.
Gorkha L’Aquila Typhoon Haiyan Amazon Western Desert Sahel Region
Earthquake Earthquake Rainforest
Date: 25th April Date: 6th April 2009 Date: 8 November Country: Brazil, Peru States: Arizona, Desertification:
2015 2013 California, New Process of land
Country: Italy Size: 6.7 million km2 Mexico degrading into desert.
Country: Nepal Country: Philippines
Magnitude: 6.3 on Deforestation Deserts: Sonoran, Location: on a desert
Magnitude: 7.9 on Richter Scale Scale: Category 5 Causes: Mojave, and fringe of Sahara.
Richter Scale Cattle Farming Chihuahuan Desert
Primary Effects: Primary Effects: consists of 7% of Countries: Senegal,
Primary Effects: 309 killed, roughly 6190 killed, roughly Brazilian GDP. Opportunities: Burkina Faso,
Roughly 8600 dead, 10000 buildings 4 million homeless. Logging for wood. Mineral extraction – Mauritania
thousands of damaged, 65000 1.1 million tonnes of Trans-Amazonian reserves of copper
houses and homeless crops were Highway for 4000km. mined in Sonoran Causes:
buildings destroyed, destroyed. 90% of Gold, bauxite, copper Desert in Ajo, Climate Change.
millions homeless Secondary Effects: Tacloban destroyed. mined at Carajás. HEP Arizona. Energy – Population growth – 30
across the country Landslides and rock power and Sonoran Solar Project to 500 million,
falls which caused Secondary Effects: settlements. in Arizona supplies overgrazing,
Secondary damaged to housing Infection and electricity to 10000 overcultivation, soil
Effects: and transport. disease spread due Deforestation homes. Farming – erosion – vegetation
Harvests were Reduced business to contamination. Impacts: irrigation allows stripped, and soil is
reduced. Landslide and tourism. Looting was rife. Economic vegetables to be bare and baked hard
blocked roads and development - roads grown from by sun therefore
killed people. Immediate Immediate are arteries to Coachella through infertile.
Damage of $10 Response: Response: development. Soil abstraction of
billion. Hotels provided 800,000 evacuated. erosion – topsoil can aquifers. Strategies:
shelter for 10000. Curfew to reduce be eroded making Appropriate technology
Immediate Italian Red Cross looting land infertile. Climate Challenges: Water – to manage water,
Response: Tent searched for Change - supply – Lake Mead rock bunds are created
cities sprung up, survivors. Long Term: dried up, over- to follow contours of
90% of soldiers Mangroves were Sustainable abstraction of terrain, any soil carried
from army mobilise Long Term: planted. New storm Management: aquifers. away is deposited on
to worst hit areas. Residents did not surge warning Selective Logging, Inaccessibility – lack the upslope of the wall.
have to pay taxes installed. Buildings National parks, debt of roads, route 66 Tree planting - “Great
Long Term: Aid during 2010. Six rebuilt and upgraded reduction – in 2010, connects Chicago Green Wall” is an
was donated and scientists were found better for future USA reduced with California. ambitious project to
UK gave £73 guilty of typhoons. £13.5million off Extreme plant 7000km wall of
million. People are manslaughter. Brazilian debt. Temperatures – high trees.
being educated rates of evaporation
through earthquake and waste shortages.
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