Geography is about making connections

Something I've dredged from the SLN archives. Could be used for AS/A Level.
Thanks to Imogen Smith for initiating the idea:
Why not develop a geographical version of when you link two totally random objects together geographically, with the aim of getting pupils to think hard to make linkages and to be able to justify these links eg.
cow dung - cake
The sun - asthma
Feather - plastic bag
Lightbulbs - water

Link them together...!
These could be text, pictures or objects. Pupils could develop this by linking a 3rd item to the two.
An interesting HWK could be to get them to come up with their own two objects. Appeal to their sadistic nature-challenge the teacher to link their objects together!
Here is a possible answer to the above:
Cattle produce cow dung, which is the waste product of grass, which also helps them to produce milk. Milk is bottled and distributed across the country in shops/on door steps where people/factories use as an ingredient in many different types of cake.

You could also use pairs of the same word, with one marked head, and one marked tail, and you could to connect to a super'loop card' exercise, and connect the lot together geographically.
eg.
Light - oil lamp - wick in oil - stored in a - cup.
cup - is a basic consumer tool - at the opposite end of the scale to - cars.
cars - produce greenhous gases - need to sequester carbon - afforestation - wood
wood - afforestastion - increased wealth/reduced erosion - better agriculture- food.
food - surplus leads to - urbanisation with potential for -education using-books.
books - used in education - increases knowledge in - development of agriculture - health.
etc...