This blog is to support Year 11 students at St Ivo School currently preparing for the OCR A Geography GCSE.
To access summary notes and revision resources for each unit of the GCSE course, please follow the links below.
Unit 1 - People and the Physical World
Unit 2 - People and the Human World
Unit 3 - People and their Needs
Unit 4 - People and their Environment
UNIT 1 - PEOPLE AND THE PHYSICAL WORLD
Topic 1 - Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics - An Introduction
Plates and Convection Currents
Plate Boundaries
Volcanoes
Volcano Case Study - Mount St Helens - 1980
Living with Volcanoes
Volcanoes - Prediction Technology and Satellite imagery
Earthquakes
Earthquake Case Study - 1989 San Francisco Earthquake
Preparing for Earthquakes
Case Study of an Earthquake - LEDC - Bam 2003
Comparing Earthquakes
Plate Tectonics Revision
Topic 2 - Rivers and Flooding
The Hydrological Cycle
The Drainage Basin
Rivers - Source to Mouth
River Processes
Upper Course of the River Valley - V shaped valleys
Upper Course of the River - Waterfalls
Middle Course of the River - Meanders and Ox-bow lakes
Lower Course of the River - Floodplains and Levees
Hydrographs and River Discharge
Flooding in an MEDC - The Lynmouth Flood OR The Boscastle Flood
Flooding in an LEDC - Bangladesh
Comparing Flooding in an MEDC and LEDC
Rivers Revision
Topic 3 - Coasts
Coasts - Energy at the Coast
Coastal Processes - Erosion, Transport and Deposition
Coastal Erosion Landforms - Features and Formation
Coastal Deposition Landforms - Features and Formation
Case Study of Coastal Erosion - Dunwich (Suffolk)
Coastal Defence
Coasts Revision
INTERACTIVE REVISION RESOURCES
Practice Paper - Unit 1 People and the Physical World
UNIT 2 - PEOPLE AND PLACES TO LIVE
Topic 1 - Population
Entries for Population to be added as soon as possible
Topic 2 - Settlement
People and Places to Live - Settlement
Settlement - Site and Situation
Urban land-use models
Urban land-use zones 1 - The CBD
Urban land-use zones - Managing problems in and around the CBD
Urban land-use zones 2 - The inner city
Inner Cities - Solving the Problems: Urban Renewal
Inner Cities - Case Study - Regeneration of the London Docklands
Urban land-use zones 3 - Suburbs - the growth and characteristics of
Urban land-use zones 4 - The Rural Urban Fringe (land-use conflicts)
Out of Town Shopping Centres
Green Belts - controlling urban sprawl
Counterurbanisation - Causes and Consequences
Second Homes - Social and Economic Impacts
Settlement Hierarchies
The Interdependence of Settlements - Case Study - St Ives and Surroundings
INTERACTIVE REVISION RESOURCES:
Settlement Revision
Practice Paper - Unit 2 - People and Places to Live
Unit 3 - PEOPLE AND THEIR NEEDS
TOPIC 1 - Quality of Life
Case Study of Rapid Economic Growth - South Korea
(More notes to come soon)
TOPIC 2 - Economic Activities
Farming - An introduction to Farming - The Farming System
Case Study of Commerical Farming in the UK - Cereal Farming in East Anglia
Changes in Farming in the UK
Case Study of Subsistence Farming - Rice Farming in India
Changes in Farming in India - The Green Revolution
Case Study - Manufacturing Industry - The Whitbread Brewery
Case Study - Distribution Industry - The Argos Distribution Industry
A Case Study of tourism in an LEDC - Kenya
A Case Study of tourism in an MEDC - Menora
TOPIC 3 - Energy
Non-Renewable Energy Sources (Coming soon)
Renewable Energy Sources (Coming soon)
Changing Energy Use in the UK (Coming soon)
The Nuclear Debate
Case Study of a nuclear disaster - Chernobyl (Coming soon)
The Impact of Changing Energy Sources on a Local community
Practice Paper - Unit 3 - People and their Needs
UNIT 4 - PEOPLE AND THEIR NEEDS
Topic 1: Resource Development and the Local Environment
Limestone Quarrying in the Peak District National Park
Tropical Rainforests (Coming soon)
Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest (Coming soon)
Consequences of Deforestation (Coming soon)
Sustainable use of Rainforests (Coming soon)
National Parks in the UK - the Peak District National Park (Coming soon)
Conflicts of Land-use in the Peak District National Park (Coming soon)
A Case Study of Water Pollution - The Sea Empress Disaster (Coming soon)
Topic 2: The Global Environment
Global Warming - Causes of (Coming soon)
Global Warming - Consequences of (Local and Global) (Coming soon)
Global Warming - Tackling the Issue (Coming soon)
Acid Rain - Causes and Consequences of (Coming soon)
Acid Rain - Tackling the Issue (Coming soon)
