Geography - Easter Revision Schedule - At the end of the holidays look at the amber / red sections for focussed revision
Friday 7th
Hydrological cycle – Key
Saturday 8th
River processes – Label
Sunday 9th
River landforms
Monday 10th
Flooding case studies
processes
the drainage basin.
Processes which create
landforms
(Boscastle / Bangladesh)
Wednesday 12th
Coastal landforms (Dorset
Thursday 13th
Coastal defences – Hard
Saturday 15th
Map skills
Sunday 16th
Case studies of aid
Coast / Lulworth Cove)
and soft engineering &
sustainable management
Friday 14th
Case study of coastal
defence (Holderness /
How do you do 4 figure grid
references?
Do you know compass direction?
Computer aid
goat aid
Thursday 20th
Natural hazard key
words – Causes /
impacts / response
Friday 21st
Earthquake case studies
Monday 17th
MNCs case study (Nike)
Advantages and disadvantages
of MNCs
Tuesday 18th
Global
warming/Climate
change – Causes / effects
and solutions
Saturday 22nd
Sunday 23rd
Volcano case studies (Mt. Tropical storm case
Etna / Nevado del Ruiz)
studies (Katrina / Nargis)
Hunstanton / Pevensey)
Wednesday 19th
Economic development
keywords –
employment structure
Location of primary/secondary etc
Monday 24th
Back to School
Drought case studies
(Australia / Ethiopia)
ALL THE TIME THINK:
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Social
Economic
Environmental
Sustainable?
Tuesday 11th
Coasts keywords &
processes
(Sichuan – China –LEDC &
Northridge California MEDC)
TIP- Use GC/SE/A*
(4 marks questions on graphs)
GC=General Comment
SE = Specific Example - data
A* = Anomalies in data
Rivers:
1. How might climate change affect
the hydrological cycle?
2. Why are large scale river
management schemes often
found in highly developed
countries?
3. Why does the bedload of a river
become smaller and less angular
as it moves towards the sea?
4. Why are rivers an important
economic resource?
5. What evidence suggests that
deposition becomes an
increasingly dominant process as
a river gets nearer the sea?
6. How might the study of past
storm hydrographs be useful for
future flood risk planning?
7. Why is flood risk increasing in
many urban areas?
8. Could the Boscastle flood have
been predicted? Would
prediction have reduced the
impact of the flood?
9. Explain the following statement
”The flood defence scheme in
Boscastle will not stop a flood
event on the scale of 2004, but
should reduce the impact”.
10. Why are developing countries
often more badly affected by
floods?
11. Why are CFMPs seen as a more
sustainable type of river
management?
Geography Challenge Questions – Preparing for A*- B
PRIZES FOR STUDENTS WHO CAN COMPLETE
6 QUESTIONS IN EACH SECTION.
Coasts:
1. Can you think of ways that
human activity may increase the
rate of coastal erosion?
2. ‘landforms linked to hard rocks
are caused by erosion, landforms
linked to softer rock are caused
by weathering and erosion’.
Explain this statement.
3. Suggest why some coastal areas
are protected, whilst others are
not.
4. Why are areas of constructive
coastline often used for
recreation and leisure activities?
5. Why are salt marshes and sand
dune environments increasingly
rare?
6. Suggest why managing the
natural coastal environment is an
important part of any sustainable
coastal management strategy.
7. Why is hard engineering the only
coastal protection option in
some areas?
8. Why may hard engineering
methods not be appropriate in
some coastal areas?
9. Discuss the view ”managed
retreat works with the
environment rather than trying
to control it”.
Population and settlement:
1. Why does the global increase of population matter to
everyone?
2. Do you think the birth and death rates in the world’s LEDCs
might follow the trend for the MEDCs? Explain your answer.
3. Where is the UK in the demographic transition model – what
might happen next?
4. Explain why a population pyramid can give such a good guide
to the future population of a country.
5. What problems might a country experience with a high birth
rate and rapidly increasing population?
6. How can an aging population affect the geography of a
country e.g. housing, transport, services, leisure facilities,
where people live.
7. Why was china’s one child policy introduced?
8. Cabbages and condoms is a success story as part of
controlling Thailand’s population. How is it a sustainable story
for Thailand?
9. Do you think that the number of migrants in the world will
increase or decrease over the next 10 years? Give reasons for
your answer.
10. Imagine you lived in a rural area of an LEDC, what would
encourage you to move to the city?
11. In what ways could a slum or shanty town be upgraded? Also,
explain what challenges there will be.
12. Define and explain counterurbanisation.
13. Why is the planning of land use in a city important? Why
should it be sustainable?
14. What should be considered before an area is regenerated?
15. Can a city be sustainable? – give examples.
16. Is the Greenwhich Millenium Village truly sustainable?
17. Which groups of people would be in favour or against a new
out of town shopping centre?
Qs taken from plenary activities in books
Natural Hazards: Earthquakes and
Volcanoes:
1. What causes earthquakes and
volcanoes?
2. With the use of a diagram explain
what convection currents are.
3. What happens where plates meet?
4. Draw an images of a convergent
and divergent plate boundary add
labels and description.
5. What is the difference between a
composite and Shield volcano?
6. “If the slopes of Nevado del Ruiz
had not been covered in glaciers
the effects of the eruption in 1985
would have been far less severe for
the people and the landscape”
Discuss this statement.
7. How can you predict volcanoes?
8. Explain why some people live near
volcanoes.
9. Why do earthquakes in LEDCs
cause many more deaths than
those in MEDCs?
10. Why is it so difficult to predict the
time and location of large
earthquakes? if you had been in
charge of the relief work in Sichuan
Province, what would have been
your priorities and how would you
have put them into action?
11. Why are MEDCs able to more easily
prepare for an earthquake
compared to LEDCs?
PRIZES FOR STUDENTS WHO CAN COMPLETE
6 QUESTIONS IN EACH SECTION.
Natural Hazards – Tropical storms:
1. How are tropical storms formed
and where do they occur?
2. Why do MEDCs suffer billions of
pounds worth of property
damage but LEDCs lose
hundreds of lives in tropical
storms?
3. If you were in charge of
defending Myanmar against
future cyclones what would be
your priorities?
4. How can people be saved from
the impacts of tropical storms?
Drought:
1. What is a drought and where do
they occur?
2. ‘land as mere land has no value.
What makes it valuable is its
access to water’.’ Is this true for
LEDCs and MEDCs?
3. Describe and begin to explain
drought in Ethiopia, how have
people adapted solutions to
cope with drought?
4. Describe and begin to explain
the causes and effects of
drought in Australia, how have
people adapted solutions to
cope with drought?
5. What is desertification and
where is it a problem?
Geography Challenge Questions – Preparing for A*- B
Economic Development:
1. What is meant by ‘wealth’ and ‘development’?
2. Should we look after ourselves or should we think about future
generations?
3. Why does development need to be sustainable?
4. How can we measure a countries wealth?
5. Which countries do you consider to be poor? What are the signs of
poverty in these countries? Are people in the UK ever poor?
6. How do you think economic well-being and quality of life in the UK
might change over the next 20 years?
7. Why is international aid necessary?
8. What is foreign direct investment?
9. Why is water such an important issue in Mali?
10. What are the main aims of goat aid and computer aid?
11. What is the employment structure?
12. What is the difference between formal and informal work?
13. How have employment structures changed in the UK?
14. Describe and explain the Clark-Fisher model.
15. What determines the location of different economic activities?
(primary/secondary/tertiary/quaternary)
16. Explain how the process of cumulative causation has affected
development of economic activities in Brazil.
17. What is an MNC?
18. What are the main reasons for globalisation?
19. What would be the effects on towns in the UK of
deindustrialisation?
20. “The operation of MNCs is at times very controversial and opinions
may vary widely”. Discuss.
21. Why is mining in Ethiopia seen as controversial?
22. How can economic activity affect the physical environment?
23. The average income for people in the Pearl River has greatly
increased; was it worth it?
Qs taken from plenary activities
in books
Climate Change:
1. How are human activities causing climate change?
2. Describe and explain the greenhouse effect.
3. What is meant by the ‘carbon footprint’ of a country or person?
4. What are the effects of climate change?
5. Do the effects of global climate change actually matter to us in the
UK?
6. How can we reduce the effects of climate change?
Exam style language: Do you get it?
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Where are the command words?
Where are the key words?
a. Name and describe two processes of erosion which affect cliffs (4
marks)
b. Study the satellite image of a tropical storm in Asia. State two
features of a tropical storm shown in the image. (2 marks)
c. Some MEDCs provide food aid to LEDCs. Explain two problems
associated with food aid to LEDCs. (4 marks)
d. Give two reasons why there is longer life expectancy in MEDCs than
LEDCs. (4 marks)
e. Case study - Name and locate an economic activity. How has
economic activity affected the natural environment? What has been
done to minimise damage to the environment? (8 marks)
f. Case study – Name a river that has been affected by flooding;
describe the causes and effects of the flooding. (8 marks)
g. Name a country which has attempted to control birth rate. To what
extent were these attempts successful? (8 marks)
Be organised and follow your revision timetable.
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rewarded.