Download Soil Management - Mr Phillips` IB Geog

ESS – Wednesday 26th November 2015
I will get you to present on your respective soil conservation techniques next lesson. Please keep your
notes / presentations safe.
Syllabus: Evaluate soil management strategies in a named commercial farming system and
in a named subsistence farming system.
For these examples, you will use the Sahel region (subsistence farming), The North American Prairies
(commercial farming) and Tasikoki (sustainable commercial farming).
The command term is EVALUATE, so you will need to outline and explain the successes and failures of
both examples and the strategies they employ.
This can be written as a table of information, or as a full paragraph. I will collect it from you during our
next lesson together.
Possible resources you may wish to use:
http://www.economist.com/node/17628093
https://mstoppingibgeography.wikispaces.com/file/view/soil-erosion-in-the-sahel.pdf
http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/country/voice/tags/mali/mali_fodesa
http://www.weru.ksu.edu/symposium/proceedings/sterk.pdf (page 6 onwards)
http://www.fao.org/docrep/t1765e/t1765e0w.htm
http://www.prairiefirenewspaper.com/2010/06/north-americas-great-carbon-ocean
http://www.stmarysnewry.com/Portals/4f30589c-b3d1-4895-94b3f268e4058df8/The%20Great%20Plains%20Case%20Study.pdf
http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/when-the-dust-settled.xml
This is the last part of the soils section of the syllabus.
The following is a link to the textbook section of this part of Unit 3, for your information:
http://mrpaul.aisdtigers.wikispaces.net/file/view/ESS+3.4+The+soil+system.pdf
This is also an excellent resource that gives an overview of everything within the soils section of the
course: http://www.mrgscience.com/ess-topic-34-the-soil-system.html