GCSE Revision

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GCSE Revision

• Case Studies in Paper 1
• Physical Geography

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Paper 1

• Ice and rivers
• Weather, climate and tourism
• Towards sustainable development of the
  environment.

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Ice Rivers

• Glacial Features - Snowdonia
• Causes of Floods - Boscastle Floods
• Causes of Floods - 1995 European Floods
• Managing Floods - Mississippi Floods

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Towards Sustainable Development of the Environment

• Wind Farms West Wales or Scarweather Sands
• Iron Ore Mining Carajas
• Desertification Sahel
• Global Warming British Isles

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Weather, Climate and Tourism

• Air Masses British Isles
• Factors affecting climate British Isles
• Mediterranean Tourism Costa Del Sol
• UK Tourism Lake District

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Case Studies

• You should be able to demonstrate the following
  for each case study
• Sketch map or annotated diagram
• Cause or problem of the issue/process
• Effect of the issue/process
• Consequence or solution of the issue/process

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Case Studies

• Causes, effects, consequences and solutions can
  all be categorised using the following factors
• Economic
• Trade, money, wealth
• Environmental
• Natural surroundings
• Demographic
• Population structure
• Political
• Governmental impact
• Physical
• Landscape
• Social
• Cultural, way of life

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Case Study 1 Snowdonia glacial features

• Features in a glacial landscape corries, aretes,
  pyramidal peaks, hanging valleys, glacial
  troughs, moraines, truncated spurs.
• Identifying how these features are formed by
  processes of erosion, weathering, transportation
  and deposition.
• Identifying these features on an OS map.

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Case Study 2 Causes of Floods - Boscastle Floods

• What were the physical causes of floods?
• What were the human causes of floods?
• In what ways are there both Short term and long
  term effects of the floods?

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Case Study 3 Causes of Floods - 1995 European
Floods

• What are the sequence of events that lead to the
  floods in 1995?
• How did the effects of the floods differ in the
  different countries?

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Case Study 4 Managing Floods - Mississippi Floods

• What were the causes of the floods?
• How did the management of the river by Levees
  worsen the effects of floods?
• How can the river be managed in the future to
  prevent floods?

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Case Study 5 Wind Farms West Wales or
Scarweather Sands

• What factors influence the choice of location for
  a wind farm?
• What arguments are there for wind farms?
• What arguments are there against wind farms?

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Case Study 6 Iron Ore Mining Carajas

• What environmental impact does iron ore mining
  have?
• How can the environmental impact be sustainably
  managed?

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Case Study 7 Desertification Sahel

• What is desertification?
• What are the causes and consequences of
  desertification?
• How effective have the strategies been to deal
  with the problem of desertification?

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Case Study 8 - Global Warming British Isles

• What are the possible positive and negative
  effects of global warming on the UK?

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Case Study 9 - Air Masses British Isles

• What are air masses?
• What is are the different characteristics of air
  masses?
• How do they affect the weather in the British
  Isles?

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Case Study 10 - Factors affecting climate
British Isles

• What are the different climates of the British
  Isles?
• What factors give these areas their unique
  climates? E.g. latitude, continentality,
  prevailing wind, relief, oceanic currents

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Case Study 11 - Mediterranean Tourism Costa Del
Sol

• Where is the Costa Del Sol?
• What is the nature of tourism in the Costa Del
  Sol?
• What are the physical and human attractions of
  tourism?
• How has the nature of tourism changed? And what
  is the effect of this on the environment?
• How are the authorities trying to manage this
  change?

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Case Study 12 The Lake District

• Where is the Lake District?
• What is the nature of tourism in the Lake
  District?
• What are the physical and human attractions of
  tourism?
• How has the nature of tourism changed? And what
  is the effect of this on the environment?
• How are the authorities trying to manage this
  change?