Revision notes.

Try this with Geography

1. Close your notes and write the main idea in two sentences from memory.
2. Reopen the source and correct the first mistake or omission you find.
3. Add one example and one question to test whether you can apply the idea.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Grid references, area references, direction and latitude/longitude on topographic maps
• Scale: calculating distance, route length and area from a 1:25 000 map
• Contours, relief, spot heights and drawing or reading cross-sections
• Describing a route with direction, distance, elevation and land cover
• Site, situation and settlement pattern: how physical features shape land use
• Photographs, satellite images and old maps: comparing representations and change over time
• Hypotheses and inquiry questions: writing testable fieldwork hypotheses
• Primary data-collection techniques, sampling, validity and limitations
• Evaluating and choosing visual representations: choropleth, proportional symbols, graphs and transects
• Ecosystem components and functions: water, soil, atmosphere and vegetation
• Ecosystem services: provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting
• Land-cover change, land degradation and biodiversity loss: causes and case studies
• The ecological footprint, biocapacity and how they are measured
• Why footprints vary between countries, and strategies to reduce them
• Birth rates, death rates, total fertility rate and natural change
• Population structures and pyramids: ageing and youthful populations
• Consequences of population structures and government responses
• Global population distribution, migration types and push-pull factors
• Impacts of migration at origin and destination, and responses to forced migration
• Command words, map evidence and case-study use in the 60-mark e-exam