KGT exam – worth 50% of the GCSE
SDME – worth 25% of the GCSE
Coursework (already completed) – worth 25% of the GCSE
Case studies:
• Coastal processes and landforms‐
Swanage, Dorset • Coastal management – Holderness.
What do students need to know about coasts?
• 4 different types of erosion
• 4 types of weathering
• 4 types of transportation and Longshore Drift
• Erosional landforms
• Depositional landforms
• Strategies to reduce erosion and flooding
• Sustainability of coastal defences –
including soft and hard engineering.
Case Studies:
• How a country can control it’s population –
China’s One Child policy
• International Migration – Poland to the UK.
• Internal migration – Rural India to Dharavi.
What do students need to know about population?
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The Demographic transition model
What are LEDC’s and MEDC’s?
Population pyramids
Overpopulation causes, effects and responses
Ageing population causes, effects, responses.
Push and pull factors
Cause, effects and responses of migration on host and source country.
International and internal migration; causes, effects and responses.
Case studies:
• River processes and landforms – The River Tees
• River flooding and management MEDC – River Valency and Jordan, Bostcastle.
• River flooding and management LEDC – River Brahmaputra, River Meghna and the River Ganges, Bangladesh.
What do students need to know about rivers?
• The hydrological cycle – including flows and stores.
• The drainage basin system • 4 types of weathering
• Long profile and cross profiles
• Types of erosion, transport and deposition
• River landforms in the upper, middle and lower course.
1. Waterfalls, gorges and V shaped valleys
2. Meanders and floodplains
3. Deltas and estuaries.
• How to read and interpret storm hydrographs
• Hard engineering and soft engineering management.
Case Studies:
• Changes to retail over time – Southampton; Hedge End; West Quay and Independent to Chain.
• Changes in land use over time – London Docklands from docklands to Canary Wharf.
• Informal settlements – Dharavi, Mumbai, India.
What do students need to know about settlement?
• Urbanisation in LEDC’s – cause (push and pull factors), effect, response
• Counterurbanisation in MEDC’s – cause (push and pull factors), effect, response.
• Urban land use – Burgess model and its limitations.
• Urban development and sustainability.
• Retail; high order, low order, convenience, comparison, sphere of influence, threshold population.
• Rural and Urban characteristics.
Case studies:
• Tropical storms MEDC – Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, USA. (27th August, 2005)
• Tropical storms LEDC – Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar. (2nd May, 2008)
What do students need to know about atmospheric hazards?
• Causes of tropical storms – human and physical.
• Characteristics of a tropical storms
• Primary and secondary impacts of tropical storms.
• Severity of impacts on LEDC’s vs. MEDC’s
• Reducing the impacts of tropical storms – PPP and sustainability.
• Causes of drought
• Impacts of drought
• How human activities increase the impacts of drought.
• Reducing the impacts of drought – PPP and sustainability
Case studies:
• Earthquake in an MEDC – San Andreas fault, Los Angeles, USA. (17th January, 1994).
• Earthquake in an LEDC – Haiti; a Caribbean island. (12th January, 2010).
What do students need to know about tectonic hazards?
• Layers of the earth.
• Tectonic plates and why they move.
• Types of tectonic plate margins; constructive, destructive and conservative (and hot spots).
• What hazards are associated with each plate margin.
• Primary and secondary effects of earthquakes.
• Why are effects more severe in LEDC’s?
• Why do people continue to live in earthquake/ volcano prone areas?
• Reducing the effects of earthquakes –PPP and sustainability
• Primary and secondary effects of volcanoes
• Reducing the effects of volcanoes – PPP and sustainability
SDME – Economic development and activity (25%)
For this exam, it is important to revise background information (page 73 – 84) on:
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Employment structure and differences between MEDC’s and LEDC’s.
How employment structures change over time and why.
Location factors for different industries (P/S/T/Q).
Environmental impacts of different industries.
Sustainable solutions to counteract these environmental impacts.
How different industries can improve the sustainability (S/E/E) of the area.
What is global warming and what causes it (how does it link to this topic?)
What are the S/E/E impacts of climate change?
What is the Kyoto Protocol and what are its limitations?
How can economic activities be made more sustainable locally, nationally and globally?
You also need to be confident at reading and interpreting graphs, maps and comparative texts.