Junior Cycle Geography

3.1 Use the demographic transition

model to explain populations’
characteristics and how populations
change

3.2 Investigate
3.3 Examine 3.4 Consider the factors
the causes
population change affecting the location and
and
in Ireland and in a origin of rural and urban
consequences
developing country settlement in Ireland
of migration

3.5 Examine the

Exploring people,
3.6 Identify
causes and effects global patterns
of urban change in of economic

place and change

an Irish town or city development

3.7 Compare life chances for a young 3.8 Evaluate the
person in relation to gender equality, role of
health care, employment and education development
opportunities in a developed and a assistance in
developing country human
development
3.9 Synthesise their learning
of population, settlement
and human development
within the process of
globalisation

1.1 Describe the formation and

global distribution of 2.1 Describe the economic
volcanoes, earthquakes, and and social impacts of how we
fold mountains in the context
Elements interact with the occurrence
of plate tectonics and Patterns, of volcanoes, earthquakes,
and fold mountains
structure of the Earth processes, systems
& scale
1.2 Distinguish between 1.3 Analyse the Geographical Skills 2.2 Evaluate the 2.3 Identify how the
different categories of processes and Sustainability environmental, physical landscape
rock type, referring to effects of economic, and social influences the
composition and weathering and 1.5 Explain consequences of rock development of
formation mass movement how the exploitation and primary activities
on our landscape processes of energy resources
erosion,
deposition
1.4 Assess a soil
type in a local area
in relation to
Exploring the and
transportation
shape our
Exploring how we interact
composition and
vegetation physical world fluvial,
marine, and
with the physical world
glacial
landscapes 2.4 Assess the 2.5 Describe a local secondary activity in
1.6 Classify global 1.7 Investigate exploitation of water, fish relation to its function and the factors
climates, and the formation and stocks, forestry, and soil that influence its location
analyse the factors behaviour of a as natural resources
that influence the significant 1.8 Gather,
climate in Ireland weather event 2.8 Investigate
record and
2.6 Examine 2.7 Investigate examples how people
interpret
the causes and of how people interact respond to a
weather data
implications of with and manage natural
1.9 Differentiate disaster
climate change surface processes
between the types
of energy resources 1.10 Investigate a range of
produced by the physical processes active in
physical world a chosen location and the 2.9 Assess the
connections between them interrelationships between
the physical world, tourism
and transport