Easter Revision Sessions - what do you think?

We are proposing to offer some revision sessions in the Easter holidays:

1-2 pm (room 18)  Physical Geography with Mrs Wheeldon
2-3 pm  (room 17) Human Geography with Miss Tudor
The aim of these sessions will be to practice key revision techniques and past papers to support your Easter revision.
Please comment on the blog to confirm whether you will attend these sessions.

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Factors affecting the rate of coastal erosion

Last lesson we reviewed some of the processes affecting the rate of erosion at the coast, including wave refraction and geology.  Remember to refer to your photocopied handouts on this (the posters you all produced in class).

We have also created an annotated diagram of the formation of a spit - read the section in the textbook on this, and finish your annotation.  Be ready to use your notes to solve a mystery in Tuesday's lesson.

Homework:  Exam questions (double-sided sheet) are due to be completed for Tuesday 8th March. 

Mock Exams

Geography Mock Exams:

Human Geography Monday 28th February period 1
Population question + fieldwork question

Physical Geography Tuesday 1st March period 5
Rivers question + rivers skills question

In each exam you will be set a question from a geog1 past paper and 1 question from a geog2 (skills) paper.  Each question should take about half an hour to complete, so each exam will be one hour.

Factors affecting Coastal Erosion at Lulworth

Homework for Thursday 17th February.

Read the A3 information sheets provided, and the textbook, pp 79-82.

Answer all questions on the task sheet, Case Study of Landforms of Coastal Erosion - Lulworth, Dorset.

NB Make sure your answers are in the form of notes that you can revise from later - ie use full sentences and either write out the questions, or refer back to the question, eg Q  What is a wave-cut platform?  A  A wave-cut platform is....

Which factor is the most important factor affecting the rate of erosion along this coastline? 

Leave a comment on the blog to suggest your idea, and explain your view.
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Describing Coastal Features

Today, we discussed coastal erosion processes and drew annotated diagrams to define these (elishba and amie, please do this for homework).

We then practiced drawing annotated sketch diagrams.  Remember the following rules for these:

1.  Draw the features in simple outline and name them correctly (eg beach, cliff, arch, stack)

2.  Add details about:

• rock type - colour, faults and joints, vertical, horizontal or angled strata,
• slope (gently sloping or steep)
• vegetation (grass, trees, patchy or full ground cover)

3.  Add annotation to explain factors affecting these features, including:

• Wave action (describe the wave types in the photo)
• Erosion processes (name them)
• Cliff top weathering (freeze thaw, chemical weathering, biological weathering etc....)
• Human activity (footpath erosion, settlement, coastal management)
• Evidence of tectonic activity

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Introducing Coasts

Homework for Tuesday 1st February:  What is the coast?   Create a 1 page summary to answer this question, including definitions and diagrams. 

To help you with this, read the geofile handout, and read the brown textbook pp 70-73.  You could also look at the following websites:

http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/topics/coasts.html

http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/ourwork/conservation/designatedareas/heritagecoasts/default.aspx

http://gatm.org.uk/geographyatthemovies/coasts.html

Be ready for this to be reviewed on Tuesday's lesson.  We are looking for detail, definitions and diagrams!

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Comparing flood management in Bangladesh and Carlisle

Essay title (Homework due in Tuesday 25th January):  Compare and contrast the ways in which flood risk is managed in countries at different stages of development (15 marks)

To prepare for this essay:

We have compared the causes and effects of flooding in Bangladesh and Carlisle and discussed some of the factors that influence those differences (wealth, scale, technology, physical location...).

We have summarised the short-term and long-term management responses to flooding in Bangladesh.  You need to finish your evaluation of this - what are the positive benefits and negative disadvantages for these plans?  How are they appropriate for Bangladesh?

In Thursday's lesson we will evaluate flood management in Carlisle.  In preparation for this, use pp38-41 in your Carlisle handout to list the short and long term flood management there (Create a table like the one we used for Bangladesh).  Useful websites for this:

BBC news online - pictures of short-term responses
Environment Agency
Geographical Association

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