PS7 Geography Revision for Summative Assessment in November 2017

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1 PS7 Geography Revision for Summative Assessment in November 2017 Your first summative assessment in Geography will take place in week 11 of the Autumn Term As part of your preparation, I have issued you with a pack of sample questions (given to you on Friday 20th October 2017) which are similar to the ones that you will encounter in the assessment. You can achieve a possible 10% in this assessment which will go towards your Holmwood House Certificate. The assessment will also provide invaluable practice for your scholarship examination in geography in Year 8. This assessment will last 1 hour The assessment will cover knowledge, understanding and skills covered in Year 6 and the beginning of Year 7. You will be expected to respond to a number of written questions covering the following areas of study:- Global Location OS Map Skills Plate Tectonics Coastal features and processes Some questions will require factual recall and some will involve responding to data (this can take the form of a graph/s, table/s, picture/s, map/s and/or a video clip).

2 This will be the format of the assessment:- Section A asks questions about Global Location. Section B tests your map skills and is based on an OS map extract. Section C covers two main topics that you have studied - Plate Tectonics to include work done on volcanoes and Coastal Features and Processes. Knowledge of case studies is required for Section C. You are required to answer all the questions on the paper within one hour. To start with you need to know where to find information on the topics we have studied. Below is a list of sources for revision:- Years 6 and Year 7 exercise books these contain class and prep work on our two main units of study so far Plate Tectonics and Coastal features and processes. CGP KS3 Geography Revision Guide. You have recently been issued with this. It contains chapters on the topics we have studied. Practice questions - these were given to you in the lesson on Thursday 19th October Learning Log this contains extra information sheets and your assessment for the end of Year 6 (worth having another look at again). School website - here you will find exercises on Global Location and OS Map Skills. Essentials sheets also on the web site. You have copies in your Learning Log. For this summative assessment. refer to the following essentials sheets only:- Map Skills Earthquakes and Volcanoes Coasts Here is a breakdown of each section of the paper ( RG = Revision Guide) :-

3 Section A of the paper You have 10 minutes to complete Section A of the paper. You have to revise the names and locations of continents, oceans, countries, cities, rivers, mountain ranges and deserts. This section can be based on either a map of the British Isles, a map of Europe, a map of Asia, a map of Africa, a map of North America, a map of South America or a map of the World. You have revision activities on Global Location on the web site. Below is a list of the Global places and features that you may be asked about. You will not be asked to locate anywhere that is not on this list! Major global physical features Continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North and South America. Mountain ranges: Alps, Andes, Himalayas, Pyrenees and Rockies. Desert: Sahara Oceans: Arctic, Indian, Atlantic and Pacific. Rivers: Amazon, Mississippi, Nile, Rhine and Yangtze. Other global features Arctic Circle, Antarctic Circle, Equator, International Dateline, North Pole, Prime Meridian, South Pole, Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn British Isles Countries: The countries of the UK and the Republic of Ireland Sea areas: English Channel, Irish Sea and North Sea. Rivers: Severn, Thames, Trent, Clyde and Shannon. Hills: Grampians, Lake District, Pennines and Snowdonia. Major cities: Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Manchester and Newcastle. Countries Europe: France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine. Africa: Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. Americas: Brazil, Canada, Mexico and USA. Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Pakistan, Russia and Saudí Arabia. Oceania: Australia and New Zealand

4 Major cities and city states: Beijing, Berlin, Cairo, Delhi, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mexico City, Moscow, New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Sydney, Tokyo, Warsaw and Washington DC. Section B of the paper You have 10 minutes to complete Section B of the paper. In this section you are required to study an OS Map extract. Make sure you know your four and six figure grid references, directions (N, S, E and W), distances and scale as well as contour lines. If you are unsure about any of these check out the map reading section in your Revision Guide (RG pages ). Also, look at the information below:- You will have to know the following:- 4 and 6 figure grid references (RG page 147). Map Symbols these come with the map! (the key) but it would be useful to know major symbols to speed up answers in the examination. Identify compass directions - 8 point (RG page 146):- Identify simple relief features on a map e.g. a slope, a hill, a valley, a river etc (RG page 148). Work out the straight line distance between two points as well as being able to measure the distance along a winding road, river, railway etc. (use

5 the straight edge of a piece of paper for the latter as we have practiced on several occasions). Work out the range of height between two points on the map using contour lines or spot heights (RG page 148). Describe the land use of a part of the map can be a whole host of things including coniferous/non-coniferous woods, ind est indicating industrial estate, housing, roads/railways, quarry, hotel, caravan and camping etc. Identify reasons for the location of settlements along a flat part of a valley, near a river for water, near woods for fuel (early settlement factors), near roads/railway lines/ports (settlement growth!), nodal points (particularly for Market Towns), away from flooding from a large river (see your latest exercise book for information on settlement). Identify reasons for the location of land use such as industrial estates, airports, seaports, retail parks, business parks etc. flat land for space and expansion, near urban area for source of labour, not too near an urban area as to cause too much disruption, near transport routes for bringing supplies/raw materials in and transporting finished products to other towns/cities, away from potential flooding of large rivers etc. Identify different types of economic activity on a map e.g. Primary (farm, Quarry, Coal Mine, fishing port), Secondary (Industrial Estate, works, mill, etc.) and Tertiary (Hotels, Supermarkets/Retail Parks, Tourist facilities such as camping etc.). Describe the course of a river on a map from the source (where land is higher indicated by tighter contour lines), through the middle stage (where land becomes gentler indicated by wider contour lines) to the final mature stage (where the land is virtually flat indicated by very wide spacing in

6 contour lines on a map). Please note that you may be asked to describe the changing shape of the channel as well as the changing shape of the valley. Identify which way a river is flowing on a map look at spot heights/contour heights along the course of the river; the river will always flow from the higher points towards the lower points. The river always gets wider as it flows downstream. Be able to work out the area of a place/land use such as woods using the scale at the bottom of the OS map extract usually each square on a 1:50,000 map = 1 square Km (1c.m. on the map = 0.5 km on the ground, so 2cm = 1 km on the ground). Section C of the paper This is the Thematic Studies section of the paper. You have 40 minutes to complete this section; you are required to complete activities on your main topics of Plate Tectonics and Coastal features and processes. Below is a list of topics to revise for the assessment. I have provided page numbers from your new revision guide to help structure your revision but you will also need to refer to your exercise books and your Learning Log. RG = Revision Guide Plate Tectonics The global distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes. Make sure you know where the Pacific Ring of Fire and Mid-Atlantic Ridge are located! (RG page 17 your Year 6 exercise book is better for this). How to annotate a diagram of a destructive plate boundary, where oceanic and continental plates meet this is very important! (RG page 16 - Also, look at the diagram in your Year 6 exercise book). Volcanoes what happens when volcanoes erupt? (RG page 19).

7 Different types of volcanoes a Shield volcano and a Composite volcano (RG page 19). The internal structure of a volcano layers of ash and lava, main cone, secondary cone, main vent, secondary vent, magma chamber (RG page 19 and exercise book). Earthquakes Focus, Epicentre, seismic waves (RG page 18). Example of a major volcanic eruption to show the nature, causes, environmental and human effects and human responses. Your case study is Mount St Helens in the USA an example of a volcanic eruption in an MEDC (More Economically Developed Country). Coastal features and processes The four main erosional processes operating along the coastal zone: Abrasion, Hydraulic Action, Attrition and Solution (RG page 59). The two different wave types - Constructive and Destructive and the types of beaches these create (RG page 59). The formation of Caves, Arches and Stacks. You need to understand the different roles played by erosion, weathering and gravity (RG page 60). The formation of a Spit, Bar (Barrier Beach) and Tombolo. The role of Longshore Drift is a must know here! (RG page 61). GOOD LUCK!