Course topics.

Try this with Geography

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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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