Holly Hall Academy – Geography Curriculum Document, September 2015 - 2016
Year
10
Theme 2 - Physical processes &
relationships between people
and environments
Key Unit Focuses:
1. Weather and climate.
2. Ecosystems.
3. The issue of desertification.
4. River processes and landforms.
5. Coastal processes and coastal
management.
Key Unit Concepts/Words:
altitude, latitude, European
climate, tropical climate, frontal
rainfall, relief rainfall, convectional
rainfall, pressure systems,
drought, tropical storms, climate
zones, biomes, ecosystems, living
(biotic), non-living (abiotic),
nutrient stores and flows, energy
flows, food webs, water cycle,
sustainable management,
desertification, evapotranspiration, drainage basin,
geology, vegetation, land use,
precipitation, hydrographs,
erosion (attrition, solution,
hydraulic action, corrasion),
deposition, transportation (bed
load, suspended load, solution),
saturation of soils, deforestation,
flood hazards, flood prevention
Theme 1 - Challenges of living in
a built environment
Controlled Assessment
Key Unit Focuses:
1. Variation in quality of life and
access to housing.
2. Access to services and changing
service provision.
3. Urbanisation.
4. Planning issues in built
environments.
5. Rural change and planning
issues.
Key Unit Concepts/Words:
tenure, formal and informal
housing, socio-economic group,
quality of life, standard of living,
distribution, retail services,
urbanisation, re-urbanisation,
gentrification, Push / pull factors
of migration, Social and economic
impacts, greenbelt, greenfield and
brownfield sites, stakeholders,
sustainable communities, counterurbanisation, accessibility.
Key Unit Focuses:
To introduce the hypothesis for the
controlled assessment.
To allow students planning and
research time prior to their field
trip.
To complete 1 day of fieldwork to
conduct primary research.
Key Unit Concepts/Words:
Geographic enquiry, primary and
secondary research, Introduction,
Methodology, Results, Conclusion,
Evaluation, hypothesis, Knowledge
& Understanding, Applications,
Skills, SPaG, Specialist terms,
recalls and selects, evidence,
geographical principles, typical or
atypical, geographical futures,
reference, process and present
statistical data, cartographic
information, questionnaire,
critically evaluate, annotate,
explain, describe trends, field
sketch, bi-polar survey,
environmental survey, transect,
flow counts, census, key questions.
Additional
Assessment
End of year
exam.
and protection, coastal erosion,
cliff recession, sediment transport
and deposition, cost benefit
analysis.
Key Assessments:
Practice exam question
Key Unit Homeworks:
1. Research Hurricane
Katrina.
2. Explain an example of
sustainability.
3. Describe where the Sahel
region is and the problems
its climate can cause to
people living there.
4. Learn Water topic key
terms for test.
5. Research a UK example of
how the coast is being
managed.
Key Assessments:
Practice exam question
Key Unit Homeworks:
1. Write an article on
conditions in a
Favela/Shanty Town.
2. Describe how you would
redevelop part of Dudley.
3. Research a National Park to
include location, what
facilities it has, types of
visitor.
4. Explain how you would
create a sustainable rural
community.
Creative Outcomes:
worth 25%
Key Unit Homeworks:
N/A during controlled assessment.
Useful Website:
Weather =
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/
topics/zmy9wmn
Ecosystems =
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/
topics/z638q6f
Rivers =
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/
topics/zncqxnb
Coasts =
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/
topics/zxvkjxs
Useful Website:
Urban =
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/
topics/z4mfb9q
Rural =
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/
topics/zgqpyrd
Economic change =
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/
topics/zk6vr82
Migration =
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/
topics/zbjhfg8
Useful Website:
http://www.wjec.co.uk/qualificati
ons/geography/geographygcse/geography-b-gcse.html
http://www.geography.learnonth
einternet.co.uk/gcse/coursework/
coursework.html