GEOGRAPHY:
Learning Resources
Revision strategies
HOW I REVISED: GCSE GEOGRAPHY | A* student
Geographical Skills
- 6 figure grid references
- 6 figure grid references using an Ordnance Survey Map
- Measuring distance using scale
- Using contour lines
- Part 1: Population pyramids & Part 2
- Relief profiles
Numerical skills
- Ratio, Fractions & Percentages
- Mean, Median & Mode
- Percentage increase or decrease
- Calculating range
- Drawing a Histogram & Calculating quartiles
- Proportional symbols
- Choropleth maps
- Flow maps
- Climate graphs
- Storm Hydrographs explained
Year 10 topics
Topic 1: Distinctive Landscapes and Processes
Distinctive Landscapes in Wales
- Traditional Pembrokeshire, Modern Pembrokeshire / Snowdonia comparison
- Physical and human factors that give Pembrokeshire its distinct landscape
- Ynyslas dunes, West Wales case study – Land use and threats - Drone footage
- Managing a distinctive landscape: sand dunes
Coasts
- Waves – Their formation and factors affecting their size.
- Constructive and destructive waves
- Weathering and erosion
- Processes introduction
- Erosion processes – Abrasion, Hydraulic Action, Attrition & Solution – STICKY ANNIMATION
- Factors that affect the rate of erosion – Geology & soil, Human management, Wave energy and storminess
- Erosional landforms – Headlands & Bays (Pembrokeshire) - Features of a headland.
- Transportational processes (Rivers & Seas) – Traction, Saltation, Suspension & Solution
- Depositional landforms - Beaches, Sand dunes & Spits
- Both erosional and depositional features
- Overview of coasts
Rivers
- Structure of a drainage basin
- Upper course features: Waterfalls explained, Waterfall annotated diagram & V-shaped valleys
- Middle and lower course features: Meanders & Natural Levees
- The River Severn processes and features explained – Source to Mouth!
- Human activity and their impact? Urbanisation 1 & Urbanisation 2, Deforestation, Dam construction
- Why do rivers flood? Physical and Human causes, Summary film
- How can we manage flooding? Hard engineering – Soft engineering
- Storm Hydrographs and the factors that affect them
- Boscastle, Cornwall 2004 flood case study, Brief Summary
- Increasing flood severity due to climate change
- Increasing flood risk due to building on flood plains
- Future issues with flooding and management
- Rivers overview 1 & Rivers overview 2
Topic 2: Rural / Urban Links
- Population distribution and density – Why are some areas more populated than others?
- The rural to urban continuum
- History of urbanization and possible future?
- Urbanisation – Push and Pull factors
- Urbanisation – China case study,
- Impacts of urbanisation
- Counter-urbanisation – Push and Pull factors & impacts (Cowbridge, South Wales)
- Decline of rural services
- Rural sustainability: Investment in Extreme tourism, improve high speed internet,
- International Migration
- Population change in the UK - Historical change of migration , Birth rates death rates and Natural Increase
- Ageing population – Causes and consequences
- Development of GREEN & BROWN field sites. Building on Green field sites (BBC). Building on Brown field sites
- Changes in retail. The evolution of retail, Online retail, Death of the high street, Out of town shopping centres, Solutions for the high street
- What is a GLOBAL CITY? - More detailed documentary
Topic 3: Tectonic Processes & Landforms
- Earths structure – Plate boundaries
- Constructive plate boundaries
- Destructive plate boundaries
- Inside a volcano documentary – Several case studies
- Why do people live in tectonically active areas?
- 2010 Eyjafjallajokull Case Study
- 1995 Montserrat Volcanic eruption case study
- The years without a summer documentary – 1815 Mt Tambora
- Earthquakes: San Andreas Fault documentary, Strongest earthquakes documentary, 2010 Haiti: After the quake
- What is a tsunami?
- Tsunamis – 2004 Boxing day Indian Ocean
- 2011 Japanese Tsunami Case Study
- Factors which affect vulnerability, 2010 Haiti’s vulnerability, Vulnerability to earthquakes
- Managing tectonic hazards, Earthquake management
Topic 4: Coastal Management
- Physical and Human factors that affect our vulnerability to flooding
- General Management introduction
- Hard engineering strategies
- Soft engineering strategies
- Why should you ‘Hold the line’?
- Why should we used managed realignment/retreat?
- Why are some coastlines protected and others not? Cost Benefit Analysis
- Should we protect properties affected by coastal erosion?
- Shoreline Management Plans – A coordinated effort at a regional and national level
- How can monitoring and hazard mapping be used to reduce the impact of storms?
- What are the reasons for the potential increase in vulnerability to storms and flooding in the future?
Climate Change and increased storm severity
Global warming - Sea level rise and large populations
- Why are some coast lines at greater risk than others?
- The specific challenges faced by Small Island States as sea levels rise. & Kiribati
- How and why sea level rise may lead to environmental refugees in the future.
- How governments in countries at different levels of economic development are facing this issue.
Small Island States, South Pacific
Topic 5: Weather, Climate and Ecosystems
- Climate Change at different time scales
- What evidence is there for climate change throughout Earth’s history?
- What is the Carbon cycle?
- Natural Greenhouse effect
- Greenhouse effect
- How do volcanoes change our climate?
- 1.What is Global Atmospheric Circulation?
- 2.What is Global Atmospheric Circulation?
- 3.What is Global Atmospheric Circulation?
- What is a Monsoon? (India) (LOW PRESSURE HAZARD)
- Causes and Consequences of a Monsoon (LOW PRESSURE HAZARD)
- Cause of the Californian droughts (HIGH PRESSURE HAZARD)
- Californian Droughts: Social, economic and environmental impacts (HIGH PRESSURE HAZARD)
- Weather vs Climate???
- What factors affect the UK’s weather? Rainfall, air masses, altitude, micro-climates and the urban heat island & rain shadows.
- How does a regions Climate affect the type of Biome found there?
- Rainforests: Climate and Biomes
- The Arctic and Alpine Tundra: Climate and Biomes
- Ecosystems, food webs and food chains
- How do rainforests effect the water cycle?
- Why are rainforests so important? Key services
- Small scale ecosystem: Sand dune succession
- How people use, modify and change a rainforest ecosystem
- Using an ecosystem for energy production: Wind Turbines, Hydro-Electric Power
- Problems with Palm Oil: Food production
- Hidden costs of Hamburgers
- Sustainable Management strategies for ecosystems
Great Barrier reef management strategies
Topic 6: Development and Resource Issues
- Development indicators including HDI
- Causes of the development gap
- Why are poor countries poor?
- Imports and exports – tariffs, subsidies and quotas
- Trade blocs
- Problems caused by TNCs for locals
- Nikes Sweatshops – Behind the Swoosh
- Why do Multi-National Companies base their factories in less developed countries?
- Physical and Human factors that attract tourists to Pembrokeshire
- Positive and negative impacts of tourism
- Cancun Case Study: Impacts of enclave tourism
- Impacts of tourism – Bali, Indonesia
- Mass tourism vs Sustainable tourism
- Digital drivers of tourism
- Sustainable Tourism
- How do Non- Government Organisations such as WATER AID help improve development?
- Foreign aid: who gives the most, and where does it go?
- Fair Trade
- Global water crisis - Water Foot Print
- How is water being managed sustainably? – Israel example
- Causes and Consequences of regional patterns in development for a LIC. (MALAWI)
- What are the causes and consequences of regional patterns of economic development in the UK? How can regional inequalities in the UK be reduced?
Theme 7: Social Development Issues
Theme 8: Environmental Challenges
- The concept of an ecological footprint
- 32:1 First world and Third world consumption
- Food waste
- Food miles
- Problems with Palm Oil: Food production
- Is intensive farming good for the environment?
- Electronic waste
- The social and economic impacts of climate change – Short and Long term
Impacts on an Island State in the South Pacific - Kiribati
- Management strategies for Climate change at a range of scales
National – Carbon Capture Storage
International – 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change
- Can technology solve the problem of Global Warming?
- Why are rainforests important? Rainfall & flooding
- Sustainable Management strategies for ecosystems