GCSE Geography

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GCSE Geography

• Case studies may vary depending on your class.
  This is for Miss Hollingers class June 2006

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Core Unit - Paper 1F or 3H1hr 45mins

• Answer all questions in this paper
• Question 1 Human world (population and
  settlement)
• Question 2 Economic World (employment)
• Question 3 Natural World (weather and climate)
• Question 4 Physical world (rivers, coasts and
  glaciers)

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Option Unit - Paper 2F or 4H1hr 15mins

• Answer two questions only
• Question 1 Managing the environment
• Question 2 Managing Hazards (tropical storms,
  earthquakes, volcanoes)
• Question 3 Managing Tourism (MEDC and LEDC
  coastal and mountainous environments)
• Question 4 Managing Urban Areas
• WE HAVE NOT STUDIED THE TOPICS WITH A LINE
  THROUGH THEM - DO NOT ANSWER

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Human World Case Studies

• Study of one urban area in an LEDC and one in an
  MEDC to describe and explain the characteristics
  and locations of the CBD, twilight zone,
  industrial areas and residential zones
• MEDC Sheffield
• LEDC Bangalore, India
• You may be asked to draw a sketch map in your
  answer

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Economic World Case Studies

• Study of intensive wet rice farming in an LEDC
  Philippines
• Study from the EU to consider the changes
  affecting farm systems Home Farm, Hampton in
  Arden, S.E. of Birmingham
• One modern high tech industry to consider the
  specific factors affecting its location High
  Tech computers in Bracknell
• Study of the factors attracting a transnational
  company (TNC) to a particular country Fiat in
  Brazil

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Natural World Case Studies

• A study of a tropical rainforest system to show
  the ideas of conservation, exploitation and
  sustainable development, and the roles of
  different interest groups and the conflicts
  between them Papua New Guinea

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Physical World - Case Studies

• There are no case studies relating to this unit
  but longer answer questions (worth 5-6 marks) ask
  you to explain processes and the formation of
  landforms
• Rivers
• Coasts
• Glaciers

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Physical World - Case Studies - Rivers

• Processes
• Erosion hydraulic action, abrasion, attrition,
  solution
• Transportation saltation, traction,
• Deposition
• Landforms
• Interlocking spurs, waterfalls, meanders,
  floodplains, levees, deltas

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Physical World - Case Studies - Coasts

• Processes
• Erosion hydraulic action, abrasion, attrition,
  solution
• Mass movement
• Transportation longshore drift
• Deposition
• Landforms
• Wave cut platform, headland, bay,
  cave/arch/stack/stump, beach, spit, bar

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Physical World - Case Studies - Glaciers

• Processes
• Erosion plucking, abrasion
• Transportation
• Deposition - moraine
• Landforms
• U-shaped valley, truncated spur, hanging valley,
  ribbon lake, pyramidal peak, arête

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Managing Tourism - Option Unit Case Studies

• MEDC coastal Ayia Napa, Cyprus
• LEDC coastal Maldives, Indian Ocean
• MEDC mountainous - Yosemite National Park,
  California
• LEDC mountainous Nepal, Himalayas
• Sustainable tourism any of the above case
  studies have elements of sustainability
  Maldives, Yosemite and Nepal are the best

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Managing Hazards - Option Unit Case Studies

• MEDC tropical storm Hurricane Floyd, USA
• LEDC tropical storm Cyclone One Bravo,
  Bangladesh
• MEDC Earthquake Kobe, Japan
• LEDC earthquake Izmit, Turkey
• LEDC volcano Merapi, Indonesia
• You only have to know two of the above three.
  You need to know one earthquake and one volcano
  and one has to be from an LEDC and one from an
  MEDC

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Click on the topic to see the syllabus content

• Managing Hazards
• Managing Tourism
• Human World
• Economic World
• Natural World
• Physical World

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• In the shared folders there are specimen papers
  and mark schemes.
• 1F Foundation Core Units
• 2F Foundation Option Units (Hazards and
  Tourism)
• 3H Higher - Core Units
• 4H Higher - Option Units (Hazards and Tourism)