S7 Geography Revision for Summative Assessment in February 2017

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1 S7 Geography Revision for Summative Assessment in February 2017 Your second summative assessment in Geography will take place in week 6 of the Spring Term 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 geography scholarship examination in Year 8. This assessment will last 1 hour The assessment will cover knowledge, understanding and skills covered in Year 6 and 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 Earthquakes and Volcanoes Microclimate E YOU COMPLETE THE PRACTICE QUESTIONS!!!! - to you in lesson on Thursday 9th February. 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). 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.

2 Section C covers the main topics of Earthquakes and Volcanoes and Weather and Climate (in particular, Microclimate). Knowledge of case studies is required for Section C. You are required to answer all the questions on the paper within one hour. Part of the paper will involve responding to data - this may take the form of a graph/s, table/s, picture/s, map/s and/or a video clip. 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 main units of study so far Volcanoes and Earthquakes and Weather and Climate. CGP KS3 Geography Revision Guide (RG). Most of these are in L4 - please collect your copy before we break up for Half-Term. The RG contains chapters on Earthquakes and Volcanoes, Weather and Climate and OS map skills. Practice questions - these were given to you in the lesson on Thursday 9th February 2017!!!!!!!!! Case Studies - hard copies in class folder; electronic copies are on the web site. You can break down the information on these further by writing key points onto cards. You have a sheet How to create a Revision Card in your Learning Log. Learning Log this contains extra information sheets and your assessment for the end of Year 6 and your first summative assessment in November 2016 (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 website. You have copies in your Learning Log. For this summative assessment. refer to the following essentials sheets only:- Map Skills Earthquakes and Volcanoes the essentials! Weather and Climate of the British Isles - the essentials!

3 Here is a breakdown of each section of the paper ( RG = Revision Guide) :- 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. 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.

4 Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Pakistan, Russia and Saudí Arabia. Oceania: Australia and New Zealand 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 - Ordnance Survey Map work 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):-

5 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 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.).

6 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 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).

7 Earthquakes and Volcanoes 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). 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). Earthquakes Why are earthquakes so destructive? Why are MEDCs better prepared than LEDCs (Exercise book and RG pages 20-23). How do people and governments respond to the threat and impacts of earthquakes and volcanic eruption? The three P s - Predict, Protect and Prepare (Exercise book). Examples of both earthquake events and volcanic eruptions to show the nature, causes, environmental and human effects and human responses. Your case studies are Mount St Helens in the USA an example of a volcanic eruption in an MEDC (More Economically Developed Country), The Japanese Tsunami of 2011 yes the Tsunami was caused by an earthquake and is an example of an earthquake event in an LEDC (Lower Economically Developed Country) and The Nepal Earthquake of 2015 which is another example of an earthquake event in an LEDC (Information on all these can be found in your exercise books and Learning Log). You need to be able to compare the impacts and responses between these examples.

8 Weather and Climate (emphasis on Microclimate) The difference between weather and climate (Exercise book). How does the weather affect people s livelihoods? (jobs - see table in exercise book). What are the elements of the weather? (see spidergram in exercise book). Microclimates (RG page 40). Factors affecting microclimate in the school grounds (RG page 40 plus see work done so far on the Microclimate of Holmwood House).