www.mhsgeog.co.ukwww.mhsgeog.co.uk| YEAR 10: TOPICS STUDIED |
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| Population Geography |
| Urban Geography |
| Coursework: The Functions of Marple |
| Physical Geography |
| Click here to view Year 11 topics |
Population.com has population data on over 200 countries - including detailed population pyramids (e.g. compare the United Kingdom with Sierra Leone).
This is a good starting point for details of World Population growth - including a case study on China's population growth and fertlity rate.
This site helps explain the Demographic Transition Model, with a case study on India. Click here for more specific information on life expectancy (facts, figures, maps, etc.) and here for an introduction to migration (try here for an interactive online multiple choice quiz on migration).
This population site tells you, amongst other things, how the world's population is changing - by the SECOND. The official U.K. Census site is another good source of population information.
Click on this link for an excellent world population density map. Then try here for a more interactive look at world population density and distribution - by clicking on different areas on the map you can see more detailed maps for each region (e.g. Europe).
Finally, visit here for online revision (from the BBC's Bitesize Geography site) on Population or Migration. There is also an 'exam skills' guide to Density shading maps and distributions.
Year 10: Population Geography
Follow these links for information on: Urbanisation and counter-urbanisation. We also study urban regeneration and urban renewal - e.g. Salford Quays.
These sites give information on the 'urban hierarchy' (Hamlet - Village - Town - City - Conurbation - Primate City - Megalopolis) and Millionaire cities (eg Tokyo, Mexico City, New York and Bombay).
Look here for details and examples of problems in urban areas (both MEDCs and LEDCs) - e.g. favelas.
This site provides an introduction to land use, including definitions of urban zones. Try here for details of the Sector & Concentric Circle urban models and then have a go at the Bitesize revision test question!
Click here for an interactive online multiple choice quiz on 'urban environments', visit here for online revision (from the BBC's Bitesize Geography site) on Urban Geography (including cities in MEDCs and LEDCs, urbanisation, urban renewal and urban structure). Alternatively, try here for the Schoolsnet revision sections for urban growth and urban change.
Year 10: Urban Geography
Data is collected to help prove students' chosen hypotheses by undertaking shopper questionnaires, pedestrian and traffic counts, land use surveys, and so on.
Results are presented using appropriate maps (e.g. choropleth and desire lines) and graphical techniques (e.g. bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, scatter graphs, etc.).
Marple has its own website here - including an excellent land use map of Market Street. Click here for a 1:25000 map or a 1:50000 map of Marple, or an aerial photograph of the Town Centre. This 1:2000000 map shows Marple's situation in the North West of England.
Visit upmystreet.com to find information about various economic and social statistics for the area (unemployment, house prices, etc.). Finally, examine 2001 National Census statistics for North and South Marple.
GCSE Coursework: The Functions of Marple
Students attempt to find out about the functions of Marple by testing a number of hypotheses (e.g. 'Marple offers mainly low order goods and services', 'Marple caters for Marple's residents' or 'Marple is a Dormitory Town').
We study 3 different areas of Physical Geography:
1. Rivers - including processes (erosion, transportation and deposition), features and a field trip to the Upper Etherow (click here for information or pictures). Try these sites for further information (definitions and photographs or diagrams) on river features and processes.
2. Coasts - studying processes and features (both erosional and depositional).
3. Glaciation - with special reference to The Lake District and Snowdonia National Parks.
Within our sudies of Physical Geography, we also look at the distribution and physical attractions of National Parks in England and Wales. Try this link for a general resource page to Britain's National Parks, or here for a good overall introduction - both include various links to the 11 National Parks in England and Wales...
Click here for a map of the above National Parks, and here for information on 'Honeypots' and their associated problems - e.g. Castleton (click here for a more detailed guide to Castleton).
Year 10: Physical Geography
We also look at floods, hydrographs and flood management (see information and links for all aspects of floods in the Natural Hazards topic, Year 11).
Click here for an interactive online multiple choice quiz on
Rivers.
Finally, visit here for online revision (from the BBC's Bitesize Geography site) on rivers, or here for the Schoolsnet revision section for rivers and flooding.
This is probably the best overall site for coastal environments: it includes information and diagrams on erosion and depostional processes (e.g. longshore drift) and features (e.g. beaches and spits). There is also a case study of the Holderness Coast - including Flamborough, Hornsea, Mappleton and, of course, Spurn Head. Another good site about the Spurn Head Spit can be found here.
As far as erosional coastal features are concerned (caves, arches, stacks, etc.), this site is a very detailed guide to the features around Swanage and along the Dorset coast. There is a similar guide to Lulworth Cove specifically. Also in Dorest, you can find the famous 'Old Harry' group of stacks.
A shareware programme covering aspects of coastal processes is available from www.softseek.com (along with several other downloadable geography games & quizes).
Finally, visit here for online revision (from the BBC's Bitesize Geography site) on Coasts
First stop should be this excellent introductory site to Glaciation and glacial features which also includes acase study of Helvellyn in the Lake District. Then there is an interactive guide to glacial features (Pyramidal Peak (or Horn), Col, Arete, Corrie (or Cirque), Glacial Trough, Hanging Valley, etc.) - just click on the labels for more information and photographs. Finally, for those who don't know their medial moraine from their terminal moraine, try this glaciation glossary.
Click here for an interactive online multiple choice quiz on
Glaciation, or here for the Schoolsnet revision section for glaciation and limestone.
Some other links to try: the official Lake District information site,
Lakesnet (another good tourist site for the Lake District) and the official Snowdonia information site.
The Peak District.
The Lake District
Snowdonia
Dartmoor
Exmoor
Northumberland
Yorkshire Dales
North York Moors
Brecon Beacons
Pembrokeshire Coast
The Norfolk Broads
and, in all but name, The New Forest
