1. THE ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHY TEACHERS OF IRELAND 38 TH AGTI ANNUAL CONFERENCE SATURDAY 13 TH OCTOBER 2012 ENDA WHELTON THE ELECTIVES AN SRP ANALYSIS

2. WHAT IS AN SRP AN S.R.P. (SIGNIFICANT RELEVANT POINT): THIS IS A DETAILED SENTENCE WITH FACTUAL INFORMATION OR TWO SHORTER SENTANCES WITH FACTUAL INFORMATION RELEVENT TO THE QUESTIION AN S.R.P. IS WORTH 2 MARKS I.E. YOU WILL NEED 15 S.R.P.’S APPROX FOR A 30 MARK QUESTION.

3. EXAMPLES FROM A QUESTION ON POPULATION DENSITY THE CHINESE ONE CHILD FAMILY POLICY: The policy consists of a set of regulations governing the approved size of Chinese families. These regulations included restrictions in family size, late marriage and childbearing and birth spacing. (1 SRP = 2m) The general rule is that one child is allowed per coupled inhabiting an urban area and two are allowed per couple in a rural area if the first is a girl but there are many exemptions to this rule including ethnic minorities and parents without any siblings themselves. (1 SRP = 2m)

4. 4.1 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Q2 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX

5. 4.2 COUNTRIES CHANGE OVER TIME Q5 CASE STUDY OF A DEVELOPING COUNTRY – BRAZIL

6. 4.3 THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Q7 CAUSES OF GLOBALISATION

7. 4.4 IRELAND AND THE E.U. Q12 THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY

8. 4.5 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT Q19 CONFLICT BETWEEN LOCAL & GLOBAL INTERESTS

9. 5.1 POPULATION CHANGE OVER TIME Q6 POPULATON STRUCTURE, FERTILITY RAYES & MORTALITY RATES

10. 5.2 OVERPOPULATION Q9 SOCIETY, CULTURE & INCOME LEVELS LEADING TO OVERPOPULATION

11. 5.3 MIGRATION Q13 THE RACIAL, ETHNIC & RELIGIOUS ISSUES ARISING FROM MIGRATION

12. 5.4 SETTLEMENT Q16 PLANNING STRATEGIES IN RURAL AREAS

13. 5.5 URBAN SETTLEMENT Q20 SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN CITIES

14. 5.6 PROBLEMS WITH URBANISATION Q22 URBAN TRAFFIC PROBLEMS

15. endawhelton@eircom.net www.edco.ie/geographysrps Code for answers: tghldw

16. GEOGRAPHY SRPS BOOK WHAT IS IT? A WORKBOOK AND AN ONLINE SAMPLE ANSWER BOOK COVERING THE PHYSICAL, REGIONAL AND ELECTIVE SECTIONS. DESIGNED TO BE USED BY TEACHERS AS A REVISION AID FOR STUDENTS. IT FOLLOWS THE SYLLABUS IN A LINEAR FORMAT COVERING ALL KEY AREAS AS OUTLINED BY THE SYLLABUS. THERE ARE 2 TYPES OF ANSWERS: 1. FILL IN THE BLANKS IN YOUR WORKBOOK. 2. READ THE ANSWER ONLINE AND FILL THE KEY POINTS TO EACH SRP INTO YOUR WORKBOOK.