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

• Present-day global land cover and its change since the last ice age
• Melting glaciers and ice sheets: natural characteristics, distribution and causes
• Deforestation: forest characteristics, distribution, causes and geospatial monitoring
• Selected location for melting ice: change, impacts and challenges
• Selected location for deforestation: the Amazon — change and impacts
• Responses to land cover change and evaluating their effectiveness
• Local land use change: location, characteristics, interconnection and processes
• Local land use change: reasons, impacts, geospatial tools and the fieldwork report
• The 12 key geographic concepts, with change and interconnection at the centre
• Data interpretation, geospatial technologies, command words and exam technique
• Where the world's people are: global population distribution and spatial association
• From the 1700s to 2100: world population growth and its projections
• Reading population pyramids: structure as a snapshot and a story over time
• Population movements: types, causes and their contribution to change
• The five-stage Demographic Transition Model and how to use it
• Malthus vs the optimists: evaluating a theory of growth and sustainability
• A growing population: the nature of the trend and the issues it creates
• An ageing population: the trend, its drivers and the challenges it brings
• Strategies in response to population issues and their wider impacts
• Evaluating effectiveness with criteria, and the role of geospatial technologies