Geography Assessment Task Part A The Great Barrier Reef:

Criteria:

1. To contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance;It fits the criteria because it is all natural; all of the animals that live in the Great Barrier Reef and around the area are of a high quality and naturally beautiful. People visit from all over the world to view the beauty of the Great Barrier Reef.

2. To be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features;The original Great Barrier Reef coral started to grow about 50 million years ago when the Coral Sea Basin formed. It eventually died off with climate change and rising sea levels and after the last Glacial Maxima (Ice Age) ended the reef, as we know it today began to form. The current reef structure we know today is about 6000 to 8000 years old.

3. To be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals;The Great Barrier Reef has one of the worlds richest and most complex ecosystems in the because of its size. It supports tens of thousands of species of marine animals and plants. Different depths of the Great Barrier Reef means it can support many varied species.

4. To contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation.The Great Barrier Reef is home to many many different types of plants and animals. Millions of years of growing has established layers of different types of Corals and things as they break

down. These become shelter and protection for the animals that live in the Great Barrier Reef

Bibliography: http://whc.unesco.org/en/criteria/

Where is it? The Great Barrier Reef is in the Coral Sea, On Australians North-Eastern Coast. It stretches a bit over 2,300km going along the Queensland coast starting at the tiptop of Cape York Peninsula then extending all the way Bundaberg in the south.

This is a close up view on the Great Barrier Reef and as you can see is pretty darn big.

Here is a even bigger map and in this one you can see that it stretches well over the full length of New Zealand.

Bibliography: http://cairnsdiveadventures.com/reef-info/where-is-the-great-barrier-reef-located/

What’s involved?

Here is a picture of the Great Barrier Reef As you can see and by the name it is pretty just a huge reef with a lot of fascinating spots and creatures that roam around the reefs.The Great Barrier Reef is not just a big deserted reef it is also a really nice peaceful remote holiday destination.

Lot’s of scooper diving with nice and not so nice sea creatures.

But also lots of time for relaxation if you want.

Why is it world heritage? The reason that the Great Barrier Reef is a world heritage site is because it’s bigger than the Great Wall of China, Its one of the seven wonders of the natural world and it is the only living thing on the earth that is visible from space.

The Great Barrier Reef. Just note that this image is taken from space.

A normal photo of the Great Barrier Reef.

The Great Barrier Reef has 400 types of Reefs, 1,500 different types of fish and 4,000 types of mollusc. It also holds a great scientific as it has the habitat of species such as the dugong (sea cow), The large green turtle, which is threatened to extinction.

This is a photo of a mollusc.

Bibliography: http://www.greatbarrierreef.org/about.php

Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur

The capital of the old kingdom of Egypt has some extraordinary monuments such as, rock tombs, ornate mastabes, temples and pyramids. The in ancient times the Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur were also on of the Seven Wonders of the World.

Bibliography: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/86

Criteria: 1. To represent a masterpiece of human creative genius.It's a masterpiece because of its size and secret tombs and what they made it from their bear hands and they didn't have machines like we do today.

2. To bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared.They were built to bury the pharaohs and represents a culture that is very unique. The civilization is ancient and no longer in existence.

3. To be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria). The ancient Egyptian tradition of burying Pharaoh’s in tombs with their wealth is no longer active but still today hidden tombs are being found. The pyramids were not the only way to bury pharaohs but are the most impressive especially when you think that the pyramids were built by hand with no machines – this tells us a lot about the strength of the men at that time and the ways they had to work out how to build something that was so big.

Bibliography: http://whc.unesco.org/en/criteria/

Where is it? The Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur is located about 9 km (5 mi) inland into the desert from the old town of Giza on the Nile, about 25 km (15 mi) southwest of Cairo city center.

Here is a big map on the bottom left of the page that shows a piture of where it is on a big scale (It's the Star). And the rest of the picture is a closer more deatailed photo of where it is.

This is a close up photo of the pyramids so you know what they look like.

What’s involved? Here is a photo of what I think is in the rock tombs of the piramids and from what I know it's a pharoh.

This is a photo of the Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur and as you can see its got pyramids in the background and the rock tomb in the front that looks lit a lion cat thing.

Here is a photo of just the pyramids themselves.

Why is it world heritage? It's a world heritage site because its pretty much the only pyramids in the world and they are still standing today. Also an interesting fact is the Egyptians didn't even make them they made slaves do it for them.