OCR A Level geography paper 1 Facts
Saltburn- Flamborough Head
-1500km fetch
-4m+ waves
Nile Delta
-Formed over 3000 years
-120 million tonnes of accretion annually
-750km Fetch
-0.94m waves
-Aswan Dam 1964 retreats coastline 148m/year
Sandbanks Spit
-12 Rock groynes
-3.5 million tonnes of sediment added
Mangawhai-Pakiri Bay
-75,000m3 of sand mining
-Relict store from flandrian transgression
ELSS overall
-80% of world's energy is fossil fuels
-Fast carbon cycle is 10-1000x faster
Amazon Rainforest/ Madeira Basin
-High temp of 25-30 degrees C
-2000m of rainfall annually
-Absorbs 2.4 million tonnes of carbon/year
-1.7 billion tonnes of carbon from decomposition/year
-Biomass is 60% of carbon store
-Samuel Dam
-44% of rainforest is protected
-63% of deforestation is from cattle ranching
-Dams have flooded 36,000h of forest
-9 million trees replanted
Arctic Tundra/ North Slope
-65-70 degrees North
-Average temp of -11.2
Saltburn- Flamborough Head
-1500km fetch
-4m+ waves
Nile Delta
-Formed over 3000 years
-120 million tonnes of accretion annually
-750km Fetch
-0.94m waves
-Aswan Dam 1964 retreats coastline 148m/year
Sandbanks Spit
-12 Rock groynes
-3.5 million tonnes of sediment added
Mangawhai-Pakiri Bay
-75,000m3 of sand mining
-Relict store from flandrian transgression
ELSS overall
-80% of world's energy is fossil fuels
-Fast carbon cycle is 10-1000x faster
Amazon Rainforest/ Madeira Basin
-High temp of 25-30 degrees C
-2000m of rainfall annually
-Absorbs 2.4 million tonnes of carbon/year
-1.7 billion tonnes of carbon from decomposition/year
-Biomass is 60% of carbon store
-Samuel Dam
-44% of rainforest is protected
-63% of deforestation is from cattle ranching
-Dams have flooded 36,000h of forest
-9 million trees replanted
Arctic Tundra/ North Slope
-65-70 degrees North
-Average temp of -11.2
