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Welcome Year 10 of 2012/2013
[|Coastal landforms task -]

Task - due Thursday 13th Dec. CLICK HERE FOR FINISHED POSTERS

 * Produce a revision style resource detailing the formation of one of the following landforms:

Cliffs | Wave Cut Platforms | Sea Caves | Arches | Stacks | Bays | Headlands | Beaches | Spits and Bars | Salt Marshes ||

Your resource should include the following: Your target audience are fellow IGCSE students.
 * How erosion and/or deposition processes produce the landform.
 * Maps and diagrams of the process of formation.
 * Examples of the landform(s) with at least two images/maps.
 * Links to the sources of information, images and maps.

[|link to glogster]

Year 10 Assessment Test 2 Topics: > /processing industry.
 * Recognise the causes and effects of shortages of food and describe possible solutions to this problem.
 * You should consider the effects of food shortages in encouraging food aid and measures, such as those of the 'Green Revolution' to produce more food.
 * Classify industries into primary, secondary and tertiary.
 * Describe and explain how the proportions employed in each sector changes with respect to the level of development, including Newly Industrialised Countries (NICs).
 * Describe and identify the influence of inputs on the processes and outputs of industrial systems.
 * Describe and explain the factors influencing the distribution and location of high technology and one other manufacturing
 * Case studies: Bangalore and your own chosen factory.

1. Task 5 on the handout I gave you on Thursday. It should be at least 1 page, typed.
 * Homework: due Thursday 29th Nov.**

1. Paula, Denise, Harun and Gulce - [|here] is the link to the website for the articles you are presenting next week. 2. Complete the table given to you using [|this] page.
 * Homework: due Tuesday 14th Nov.**

1. Complete the 'Green Revolution' worksheet on [|this] page. Use the resources given, and the respective pages in your textbook (see index). 2. Email to jennifer.currie@cjd-bs.de
 * Homework: due 6th Nov.**

Note: Hi Year 10, I noticed many of you have not yet answered my [|student questionnaire] for last year. If you haven't done so, I would really appreciate the feedback! Thanks.

- Describe the different types of clouds - //Case Study: Hurricane Katrina// - Biomes: describe their main characteristics and the distribution of tropical rainforests and deserts. - Ecosystems: explain the relationship in each ecosystem between natural vegetation, wildlife and climate - Factors affecting climate - be able to explain each, use your knowledge to justify why areas have the climate they do - Tropical rainforests: describe the main characteristics (in each level); location; how plants adapt to their environment - //Mini Case Study: Amazon Rainforest// - Deforestation: definition, causes and consequences - Tropical deserts: describe the main characteristics; location; how plants and animals adapt to their environment - Desertification: causes and consequences - //Case Study: Drought in East Africa// - Agricultural systems - key definitions
 * Topics for Assessment Test 1**

A few online games to help you revise:

[|World climates quiz] [|Climate graphs quiz] [|Weather and climate - beat the examiner]

and for later...

[|Complete (I)GCSE revision bingo game]

Homework: for Thursday 27th Sept 1. Read over your notes on the case study of the ongoing drought in East Africa that started in July 2011. Click [|here] for extra information on this drought. 2. On Thursday's lesson you will be writing a 7-mark question on this case study - so look over your notes!

Homework (due Tuesday 25th September) 1. Draw a picture of the perfect desert animal and desert plant. Label the physical and behavioural features of each.

Homework (due Thursday 13th September) 1. Go to [|this link] and complete the worksheet called 'Global Biomes and Climates Worksheet' using the links on the page. 2. Please PRINT IT OUT and bring it with you next lesson.


 * Lesson - Thursday Oct 4th - Subsistence Farming**

1. Watch the following short 'silent' documentary. As you are watching think of 3 adjectives to describe this type of farming.

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2. Share your adjectives with the class. What are the inputs, processes and outputs you have seen?

(GET LAPTOPS NOW - ONE EACH WOULD BE BEST!)

3. Case Study: [|Barangay Busay Farm], Philippines. Go to the link and read through the information on this subsistence farm. a) Describe the location of the farm. b) Draw up a table like the ones you had for the commercial farms (inputs, processes, outputs) and complete it.

4. [|'Thrid World Farmer']game (wait for 11 seconds for the advertisement to disappear). - Play the game with the aim of making as much profit as possible, an keeping your family as healthy as possible for as long as possible. - Make sure you CAREFULLY READ the events and situations that take place throughout the game that affect your family and farm. - Write down your 'top six tips' for succeeding as a subsistence farmer - explain each one in detail.

__Class of 2011/2012__
[|Complete IGCSE revision bingo game]

Click to[| STOP DEFORESTATION OF THE AMAZON!!]

Homework: due Friday 27th April
1. Complete your 8-question chatterbox 2. Strongly Recommended: Go through the case studies marked ** below and add them to your notes.

Homework due Monday 16th April
1. Complete description of relief and drainage on the map provided in class on Friday. 2. If you have not submitted the practice paper below, you must do that tomorrow. 3. Here are some online activities to help you practice your mapping skills: [|6-figure references]

Homework (for Easter holidays)
1. Complete questions on topographic map handed out in class. 2. Complete this practice paper 4 - 3. Revise / learn your case studies (see below for list and links to more).

List of Case Studies (we've done together)
__Population/Settlment:__

One Child Policy, China (see below for links) Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (see below for links) Internal Migration [|'China's Floating Population']and [|this video] (from rural areas to urban areas)
 * Ageing Populations, [|Germany] and in [|Europe] as a whole**
 * Wolfsburg - growth and change of a city**
 * [|**International Migration, Mexicans to U.S.A] and [|this video]**

__Natural Environments:__

Deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest (video [|link]) Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, USA (see links below) Drought in Afghanistan LEDC Floods (your own case study) Great Barrier Reef, Australia [|2005 Earthquake in Kashmir - for a CS on an earthquake] [|2002 Nyragongo Volcanic eruption, Democratic Republic of Congo - for a CS on a volcanic eruption] [|2006 Landslide, Southern Leyte, Philippines - for a CS on a landslide]

__Economic Development:__

Tea Plantation, Morray Estate, Sri Lanka Subsistence farm, Barangay Bursay, Philippines Bangalore High-Technology Park, India BMA Industries, Braunschwweig Scarborough, U.K Machu Picchu, Peru Compagnie des Alpes, Alps in Switzerland/France [|**Water pollution in the Philippines] [|Renewable Energy, Germany - for a CS on renewable energy] Heathrow Airport Expansion (see bottom of this page for videos and links) - (for a CS on air pollution) [|Impacts of Tourism in Cancun, Mexico]

Case Studies - more information
[|24 thousand abducted women rescued] [|China must end brutal one child policy]
 * One Child Policy - China**

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 * Squatter Settlements - Rio de Janeiro**

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 * Tectonic Activity - Iceland**

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 * Hurricane Katrina - U.S.A**

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 * Expansion of Heathrow Airport - U.K. (Pollution - air & noise etc.)**

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Child Soldiers of Congo (for questions on about displacement etc.)
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Thanks to Kaan for finding this video!