Climate change and sustainability
Environmental geography
• Understand what fossil fuels are and how they're made.
• Understand the environmental problems of extracting and burning fossil fuels.
• Understand how our climate has changed over time and the evidence for this.
• Understand how people are causing the enhanced greenhouse effect.
• Understand the social, economic and environmental impacts of climate change in a variety of countries.
• Understand what we mean by renewable energy and appreciate the benefits of using renewables.
• Understand what we mean by the term sustainability and undersatnd how we can try to live in a more sustainable way.
• Interpret a variety of graphs, diagrams and photographs.
Key word test and year 8 exam.
Students investigate UK physical landscapes like the Yorkshire Dales and Lake District, study river systems and flooding, and explore population issues in developed and emerging regions. They also examine coastal environments and globalisation, with a case study on Saudi Arabia.
Physical Landscapes of the UK
Physical geography
• Understand the three main rock types and explain how they formed over time.
• Name and describe different processes of weathering.
• Understand the features of a limestone landscape.
• Understand how glaciers shaped our landscape in the past and explain how glacial features were made.
• Understand how and why population has changed over time.
• Understand which parts of the world are densely/sparsley populated and the reasons for this.
• Understand how and why fertility rates change as a country develops.
• Understand the reasons for migration and impcts this has.
• Understand the impacts of an ageing population.
• Understand what we mean by the term development and appreciate the advanatges and disadvanatges of measuring develeopment using different indicators.
• Understand the factors affecting a country's level of development.
• Understand what we mean by the term urbanisation and explain why some areas of the world are urbanising rapidly.
• Understand how a country's economic structure changes as it develops.
• Assess what makes a country developed.
• Use GIS (Google Earth) to investigate the shape and size of a glacial corrie and identify glacial features.
• Use a variety of maps such as political maps and choropleth maps.
• Use and interpret a variety of graphs such as line graphs, population pyramids and climate graphs.
• Understand how waves are formed and know the difference between different types of waves and swash/backwash.
• Identify and describe different processes of erosion and understand how erosion is different from weathering.
• Understand how material is transported and deposited along the coastline.
• Understand how and why climate change is accelerating the rate of coastal erosion in some areas.
• Understand where Antarctica is located.
• Understand Antactica's climate and why it is classified as a desert.
• Understand the main human and physical features of Antarctica.
• Understand how animals are adapted to Antarctica's climate.
• Understand the main threats facing Antarctica and how these can be managed. Physical and enviornmental geography
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Key word test and year 8 exam.
Key word test and 'assess' exam question.
• Use a variety of maps, imcluding OS maps.
• Use digrams to help explain coastal processes and features.
• Use aerial photographs
• Use a variety of maps include political and relief maps.
• Use graphs, including climate graphs.
• Use diagrams, including global atmospheric circulation.
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Marine biologist in Antarctica
Thankfulness.
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