Year 11 revision 2004

 

 

General geography revision sites

BBC Bitesize 

BBC Bitesize Scotland

Geography High

Scalloway High  

s-cool  the perfect site to make those one-sheet A4 revision notes......

Course unit links

A1 The Physical World

 

Rivers 

River Tees - physical features and long profile. High Force waterfall.

Lynmouth Flood Disaster of 1952 

Yellow River - erosion of sediments, deposition, flooding.

 

Coasts  

case studies:

Year 9 studies - Old Harry Rocks, Lulworth Cove, Barton-on-Sea, Holderness coasts

 

Glaciation

 

A2 The Human World

Population

  • World population growth

  • Demographic Transition Model DTM

  • Birth rates and death rates

     

  • Population pyramids - interpretation of LEDC's and MEDC's

  • Dependency ratios - working/dependant populations

  • Ageing populations

 

Settlement 

  • Siting setlements - factors

  • Warkworth - factors of siting - sketch

     

  • Ipswich cross-section - urban zones

  • Growth of Ipswich

 

  • City structure - models

                - zones described

                - housing types

                - case study: Darlington

 

  • Land use - case study  - Reading

  • LEDC city development  - Bangalore - Rio de Janeiro - favelas, Rocinha, Barra

A3 The Economic World

 

Classification of industry

 

  • Primary, secondary and tertiary sectors

  • Proportions of sectors in MEDC's and LEDC's

  • Reading a triangular graph

  • Change in employment structure over time

Agriculture

  • Agriculture in a LEDC -  Philippines Rice

                            -  The Green revolution .. HYV rice

     

  • The farmer's decisions - Brookfield Farm - fields, crops, systems.

     

  • EU and the Common Agricultural Policy

    Changes in the agricultural landscape since WW2

    Set-aside

    Diversification

Industry  

 

 

case studies:

Bracknell - hi-tech

Fiat in Brazil

Autoeuropa plant in Setubal,  Portugal Setubal; the Autoeuropa plant of Ford/Volkeswagen/Seat 

Sao Paulo, Pepsi-Cola, informal (bar owner)

A4 The Natural World

Weather

  • depression passing over the UK - frontal rain

  • reading  a weather map

  • factors influencing climate - air masses, latitude, distance from sea, prevailing winds, ocean currents, etc.

Forests

  • forest ecosystems - the boreal coniferous forest

                        - the equatorial rainforest

     

  • Tropical forests - logging in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands

Managing Hazards

Climatic hazards -

  • features of tropical storms, their formation and source areas and development.

     

  • case studies:  cyclones (LEDC) Cyclone One Bravo - Bangladesh 1999

                 

                    hurricanes (MEDC) Hurricane Floyd 1997

  • impact of tropical storms on people should be features, hazard management & response

                         

Plates, Earthquakes and Volcanoes -

  • plate tectonics - the structure of the Earth and the working of plate tectonic.plate boundaries, destructive, constructive and conservative.

     

  • case study: MEDC Earthquake - Kobe 1995 How to make notes using an internet site       

                                                   http://www.georesources.co.uk/

    LEDC Earthquake - Izmit, 1999 Turkey

  • case study: LEDC  volcano - Montserrat, West Indies, 1995

 

             

Tourism

 

case studies:

 

Yorkshire Dales National Park.

Malham - tourism control in rural areas, footpaths, etc.

The Maldives - sustainable tourism

Ayia Napa - Cyprus MEDC coastal

Zanzibar - Chumbe Island  - sustainable tourism and effects on a LEDC

Machu Piccu , Peru, LEDC and suatinable tourism problems

Yosemite NP, California, USA - sustainable tourism

 

 

 

Do check out the sites below:

 

http://www.thegeographyportal.net/ it has everything! There is really a lot of advice here, many concepts are explained and, of course, there are hundreds of fully-checked links!

http://www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/CURRIC/NEWGEOG/Index.htm some good stuff here – one to watch

http://www.geographyjim.org/default.htm quirky and fun

http://www.debenhamhighschool.suffolk.sch.uk/Geography/default.htm

http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/ top geog, site in the UK! This is where the geography teachers go!

revision tips .. as a Word file from TGP.

http://www.internetgeography.co.uk/ plenty to look at here too!

http://www.georesources.co.uk/ a super site with case studies to use!

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