GCSE Revision Lessons - Everyone Welcome!

Every Wednesday members of staff from the Geography Department will be holding revision lessons after school. These will take place in the Humanities mobiles in Bankfield.

Year 12 Gemorphological variations in a drainage basin

Here are the slides from todays lesson.

As Dynamics Of Change - Physical Section (Paper 1)

Here is what the specification states you should know:

(Physical Geography: selected physical processes, their interactions
and outcomes over space and time.)
All sections of 10.1 should be studied in relation to drainage basins in
the British Isles.

Weather changes associated with the passage of a depression.

Anticyclonic weather conditions in winter and summer.

Features of a drainage basin system:
• base flow;
• interception;
• infiltration;
• throughflow;
• run-off.

The storm hydrograph.

The effects of human activity on the storm hydrograph.

Geomorphological variations within drainage basins:
• erosion, transport, and deposition;
• how these are related to changes in discharge;
• channel morphology;
• variations in valley long profile: graded profile knick points,
waterfalls;
• downstream variations in valley cross profile;
• landforms associated with erosion and deposition.

Here is the link to notes relating to the a drainage basin. REMEMBER though, you need to supplement these notes with your own reading.

http://www.box.net/shared/jzpmdx72px

The Changing Location of Manufacturing Industry

Here is what you should know:

Manufacturing industry as a system. Question will be limited to:
− inputs, processes and outputs;
− the influence of site, raw materials, fuel supplies, labour supply, transport, markets and government policy on industrial location.

A case study of a chemical industry on a river estuary to illustrate
the nature and location of a heavy industry.
• Modern, footloose industry (information and communication
technology (ICT) and micro-electronics) along the M4 corridor to
illustrate the influence of transport, skilled labour, research centres
and greenfield sites on location.

Please see attached if you have any notes missing.
http://www.box.net/shared/hpomm54d1v

Year 9 Italy Presentation

Please use this presentation and also the work sheet you have been given. You should know what region your group has been given and what topic you need to research and prepare.

Exam Dates A Level

AS Level

Geography Unit 1,2& 3: 25th May 2007 (Afternoon)

A2

Geography Unit 4 & 5: 12th June 2007 (Afternoon)
Geography Unit 6: 15th June 2007 (Morning)

Exam Dates - Year 11 GCSE

Paper 1 4th June 2007 Morning
Paper 2 11th June 2007 Afternoon