Saturday 5 February 2011

Geography mocks and relevent material?

Yesterday I had two geography mock tests in school - one mock was about "Superpowers", the other was about "Energy Security".

I remember I needed to mention about Nuclear Power as an alternative method of energy rather than fossil fuels, which caused me to namedrop the Chernobyl event in Ukraine.

This will look very familiar if you've ever played
Call of Duty 4...

The BBC has just published an article about the Chernobyl event on development of birds and brain mass which was an interesting read, i'd suggest you read it if you're interested.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9387000/9387395.stm

21 comments:

kittens here! said...

Wow the radiation is still having an affect. Nice post!

radness4life said...

man, chernobyl is gonna be wrecked for years because of the radiation.

Rondariel said...

Although surprisingly stuff actually grows in Chernobyl.
And the ruins do have something fascinating to them...

Bassislv said...

looking at that bird's face and remembering that tragedy make me feels a bit sad

Waaaoi said...

I believe that picture is from an abandoned city near tjernobyl. Amusement park never opened because of the accident..

my day in a sentence said...

What is a mock test?

temptation said...

I've played COD 4 and i remember this place very well

trippinkets said...

cool article. interesting stuff happeneing

StarcraftII said...

Sad stuff bro...

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Ben said...

Very interesting article that you linked to. It should be noted that the scientists can't explain what specifically is causing the brain shrinkage, just that they observed the smaller brains in the birds.

What a wonderful world said...

Hey, nice post, looking forward to the next ones. :)

PvtCarlin said...

It's crazy how long the effects of radiation last!

Rose said...

i wanna visit chernobyl so bad

!sense! said...

will read.

YuiMugi said...

Well, by bye Chernobyl.

Anon Reader said...

Radiation last ages, and a mock test is like a practise paper.

D22 Zone said...

what is said in this post is true!

Evilcrystal said...

Damn, that's scary.

Followed (:

Infinite Echo said...

Chernobyl :'( shitty stuff man.

Nuclear power is scary.

Erasmus said...

I remember first seeing those pictures. There's an entire website full of some truly haunting photos I remember looking at one time.

WebPicZ said...

Chernobyl incident messed up a whole country in a blink of an eye... nice post