1. YEAR 10 GEOGRAPHY CHECKLIST:
Revision Checklist for your End-Of-Year Exam
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Ways to revise
Create flashcards and use them to test yourself / others
Create mind-maps and stick them all over your room (then test yourself by seeing what you can remember off by heart and then filling in the gaps in a different colour!)
Writing model answers for exam questions#
Remember, your structure is just as important to revise as your content – write your notes in Point/Explain structure!

2. CHANGING LANDSCAPES OF THE UK:
The main rock types, their characteristics, locations, and formation
How has geology (rock type) shaped the UK landscape?
How has tectonic activity shaped UK landscape?
What are upland and lowland areas? Give examples
What physical processes have shaped the UK's landscapes?
What impact has human activity has on the South Downs? (good/bad? Evaluate)
COASTS:
What is a coast and why is it dynamic?
What physical processes that change coastal landscapes? (explain each process!)
Concordant/discordant coasts and how they create bays and headlands
Characteristics of constructive and destructive waves
Impact of waves and geological structure on erosion
Erosional landforms: wave-cut platforms, bays and headlands, headland erosion
What is deposition?
What is long-shore drift? How does it work?
Depositional landforms: beaches, bars and spits
The impacts of cliff recession and flooding? (with named examples)
Coastal management methods (Hard engineering and soft engineering methods and their advantages and disadvantages)
Where is the Dawlish Warren located?
What human and physical factors are changing the spit?
What impact is the Dawlish Warren management scheme having on the spit?
RIVERS:
The key words around rivers (watershed, tributary, confluence, source, mouth, drainage basin)
What are the main physical process (erosion, weathering, mass movement)
River characteristics in different courses and reasons for these
The UKs increased risk of flooding (including how to read a hydrograph)
Upper course landforms: waterfalls, interlocking spurs, v shaped valleys
Middle course landforms: meanders, ox bow lakes
Lower course landforms: levees and floodplains
What human activities affect rivers and how? (agriculture, industry and urbanisation)
What are the causes and effects of river flooding? (human and physical)
What are the methods of managing river flooding?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the different methods?
Where is the River Dee located?
What are the human and physical factors changing the River Dee?
Which change is having the biggest impact on the natural course of the river

3. CHANGING CITIES:
Trends urbanisation over the last 50 years (developed, emerging/developing countries)
How and why urbanisation has occurred at different times at different places and the effects of this
Distribution of urban population in the UK and the location of its major cities
Factors affecting urbanisation in the UK (political, historical, economic and physical)
Factors which have lead to these variations (physical, historic, and economic)
BIRMINGHAM
The site, situation and connectivity of Birmingham (local, national, international)
Structure of Birmingham (CBD, inner city, suburbs, urban rural fringe), building age and functions
The sequence of urbanisation, suburbanisation, counter-urbanisation and re-urbanisation in Birmingham
Causes of national and international migration and the impact on Birmingham's age structure, ethnicity, housing and services
Key population characteristics (Census Data) compared to rest of the country
Reasons for population growth and decline in Birmingham
Causes of deindustrialisation (globalisation, de-centralisation, technological advances and developments in transport) and impacts on Birmingham.
How economic change has increased inequality in Birmingham in the city and differences in quality of life.
Recent changes in retailing and their impact on the chosen UK city: decline in the central business district (CBD), growth of edge- and out-of-town shopping and increasing popularity of internet shopping).
The range of possible strategies aimed at making urban living more sustainable and improving quality of life (recycling, employment, education, health, transport, affordable and energy-efficient housing) for Birmingham.
MEXICO CITY
Site, situation and connectivity of Mexico City in a national (cultural and environmental), regional and global context.
Its structure (Central Business District (CBD), inner city, suburbs, urban-rural fringe) in terms of its functions and building age.
Reasons for past and present trends in population growth (rates of natural increase, national and international migration, economic investment and growth).
Causes of national and international migration and the impact on different parts of the chosen city (age structure, ethnicity, housing, services).
How the growth of the chosen city is accompanied by increasing inequality (areas of extreme wealth versus poverty) and reasons for differences in quality of life.
Effects resulting from the chosen city’s rapid urbanisation: housing shortages, squatter settlements, under-employment employment, pollution and inadequate services.
Advantages and disadvantages of both bottom-up and top-down approaches to solving the chosen city’s problems and improving the quality of life or its people.
The role of government policies in improving the quality of life (social, economic and environmental) within the chosen city.