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Friday, 8 September 2017

NEW WEBSITE!!

Mrs Ralph's Geography has been an amazing resource which I have used for the last two years. It has enabled me to enhance my students learning in many ways. I have been working on an exciting project over the last few months. I have developed a new classroom website. This new website will be much more user-friendly and have  many more exciting features. I hope you enjoy using it. Please find the link below.




Thursday, 8 September 2016

A2: Paper 3 - Unit 2: Environmental Management

All students need to know the following:

  • To understand the differences between renewable and non-renewable energy resources
  • To understand why levels of supply and demand for energy resources vary at the national level.
  • To examine trends in the patterns of energy consumption in LEDCs and MEDCs.
  • To understand the environmental impact of energy production, transport and usage at the local scale.
  • To understand the environmental impact of energy production, transport and usage at the global scale.
  • To examine and evaluate the supply of electrical energy in one country at two scales (overall national energy strategy & Named located energy scheme)
  • To understand the nature and causes of the many types of pollution
  • To distinguish pollution from environmental degradation 
  • To analyse the factors which have led to degradation of rural environments
  • What are the causes and consequences of misuse or overuse of rural land.
  • to examine and evaluate policies designed to improve the quality of degraded rural environments.
  • To understand why selected urban environments have become degraded
  • To understand the relative success or failure of policies designed to address urban environmental degradation.
  • To have knowledge of risk factors affecting environments, environmental protection policies and their impact.
  • To acquire detailed knowledge of one degraded environment





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Friday, 26 August 2016

A2: Paper 3 - Unit 1: Production, location and change

All students need to know the following:

  • To understand the concept of an agricultural system
  • To understand factors affecting agricultural land use and practices
  • To know case studies of intensive and extensive agricultural production
  • To be aware of agricultural change (intensification of production and extension of cultivation) 
  • To understand the reasons for industrial location
  • To study the processes leading to industrial change, growth and development.
  • To understand the character, and reasons for hte development of industrial estates and export processing zones (EPZs)
  • To learn about the improtance of the informal sector (manufacturing and services)
  • To understand the basis of industrial policy
  • To evaluate the success of the industrial policy.

AS: Paper 1 - Unit 3 - Settlement Dynamics

All students need to know the following:
  • To be able to understand the difference between urban and rural
  • To understand the relationship between urban and rural.
  • What are the reasons and consequences for growth/decline in rural areas
  • To know a case study of a rural settlement
  • To understand the process of urbanisation
  • Understand the concept of a 'world city' 
  • To understand the structure and dynamics of urban areas

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Thursday, 25 August 2016

AS: Paper 1 - Unit 2 - Migration

All students need to know the following:


  • To understand the meaning of the migration (internal, and external etc.)
  • To be able to classify the different types of Migration
  • To be aware and understand the various reasons people migrate (push and pull factors)
  • Full understanding of a case study on international migration
Key Words
  • Migration
  • Push Factors
  • Pull Factors
  • Constraints
  • Intervening Obstacles
  • Barriers
  • Rural-Urban
  • Urban-Rural
  • Intra-Urban
  • Inter-Urban
  • Stepped Migration
  • Voluntary
  • Forced
  • Sorce Area
  • Recieiving Area
  • International Migration
  • Regugee
  • Asylum Seeker
  • Economic Migrant
  • Migrability
  • Mobility
  • International Migration
  • Migration Stream
  • Mass Migration

AS: Paper 1 - Unit 1 - Population

All Students need to know the following:
  • To understand population distribution and density
  • To understand terms such as 'natural increase' and 'natural decrease' of population and how this leads to population change
  • To understand replacement level to maintain populations
  • Factors that influence birth rate and death rate (economic, social, environmental and political factors)
  • To understand the different types of population structures (demographic transition model DTM)
  • To be aware of the Historical growth of population.
  • To be aware of population debates both in relation to positive and negative effects of increasing population.
  • Understanding of basic concepts such as Overpopulation, Underpopulation, Optimum Population
  • What is sustainability
  • Case Study on Population Management.