2007: The Summer of Geography
A Geography in the News Photo Quiz
Look at each photo (all courtesy of the Guardian newspaper). What do you think it shows?
- It's a village in Bangladesh in the monsoon season
- It's Tewkesbury in July, surrounded by flood waters
- It's a model village in Bourton-on-the-Water
- Chile and other areas of South America had snow this year for the first time in....ages!
- Parts of southern France experienced an unexpected avalanche in August
- Aviemore, Scotland, had a bumper snowfall in July
- Manila, Philippines, after effects of typhoon Sepat
- Oxford, UK, July 23rd after the flooding
- Garstang high street in July after severe rain
- Preston Waste Recycling Centre gets a bad mark for its poor performance compared to national figures
- after effects of the earthquake on the coast of Peru
- bomb damage in Turkey
- a dead tribesman in Africa lying in state before his funeral
- a new sculpture in Tate Modern made from recycled materials
- an environmentalist in Indonesia protesting against illegal logging
- a Chinese man and his bike - China has banned a million cars from entering Beijing to help improve the air for the Olympics
- a Chinese man and his bike - China has banned bikes from Beijing because they cause too many accidents to pedestrians
- a Chinese man and his bike - China has entered a new deal with Taiwan for all new bikes to be imported from there.
- Emma Thompson's Indian wedding photos in OK magazine
- Bangladeshi people pray to their Gods for help after the recent earthquake
- Bangladeshi people waiting for food supplies after the severe flooding
- Foot and mouth scare in Surrey in July
- a lone sheep on Dartmoor after an escaped lion killed all the others in August
- Sunny the Sacred Sheep, rescued from slaughter by a religious group in June
- Switzerland's new naturist beach opens in July
- 600 volunteers go bare on a Swiss glacier to highlight global warming
- the trailer for a new '18' film set in the Alps
- Amazonian tribesmen taken prisoner to be brought back for BBC documentary
- someone living in a Hong Kong cage dwelling - 1.25 million people out of the seven million residents there live in poverty.
- an Indonesian wolf-man - found in the rainforest in August; he'd been brought up by wolves since the age of 3
