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Year 9 Geography @ IST

Version 2012

Topic 1 Water Conservation

Why is water important to humans?
How do we waste water?
What are the different ways that we can conserve water? Remember your
homemade videos? Some of these are on geographypods.com

Topic 2 Waterfalls
How are waterfalls formed?
Can you label a diagram to show this? Remember your Niagara Falls tourism
brochure?

Topic 3 Ecosystems
Can you name the 7 main ecosystems in order from the North Pole to the Equator?
Remember the game?
Can you plot a climate graph? This includes rainfall (blue bars) and temperature (red
line)
Can you describe the climate and vegetation (plants) in two ecosystems?

Topic 4 Tropical Rainforests

Do you know where most tropical rainforests are located and why? Think of the word
Tropical
Can you name the different layers of the rainforest, from the emergent layer down?
Can you describe five ways that some plants and animals have adapted to their
environment? e.g. trees grow very tall in a race to reach the sunlight. Remember the
gliding snake?
What is deforestation?
Can you remember some facts and figures about the amount of deforestation that
takes place over time?
Why does deforestation take place? Remember your essay? Remember the video?
How can the rainforest be protected in a sustainable way? Remember your essay?

Topic 5 Development
What does MEDC, NIC & LEDC stand for?
How can the world be spilt up into rich and poor and is this still relevant today?
Are resources and food shared equally? What are the global issues related to food
supply?
Can you remember all eight of the Millennium Development Goals and be able to
write in some detail about the progress that we have made on at least three goals so
far ?
Topic 6 Global Fashion Industry
What are the issues surrounding the production of branded name clothes?
What is a Sweatshop?
Where are most Sweatshops located and what are are conditions like inside?
Remember the video?
What are the solutions to sweatshop exploitation? Common misconceptions.

Your examination will last for 55 minutes and will test you on some themes from the revision
list above. You will be tested on three areas:

Knowledge Knowing where places are. Being able to locate places on a map.
Remembering key facts and figures. Knowing where things happen e.g. locations and
climate/vegetation features of a tropical rainforest.
Skills Being able to plot data onto graphs. Being able to read maps. Being able to
calculate and manipulate geographical data so that you can analyse it, e.g. plotting
tropical rainforest climate data onto a climate graph.
Understanding Why things happen? Making connections between the human and
physical environments. Taking into account the views of different people and making
decisions e.g. how to manage the rainforest in a more sustainable way without
causing losses or damage to people and their environment.

Remember
You have covered a lot of work this year. Lots of you work has been done in the format of
group work, displays, videos etc. You folder only contains the written work, reports and
essays that have been set. Go to www.geographypods.com to view all the PowerPoints,
worksheets and other resources that will be an aid for your revision.

Dont forget to ask Mr Podbury if you are stuck or do not understand things. Dont just use
internet revision sites as the majority of them are aimed at higher GCSE level and IB level.
Use your notes, your Geography folder on your laptop and your teacher.

Target revision time for Geography 2 hours.

SMART revision No more than hour at a time. Time table

and plan out 4 mini revision sessions over the next two weeks.
You need to focus more on the topics that we completed at
the beginning of the year.

Good luck and go for it!

Mr Podbury

podbury_m@intst.net