Sworn Junior College
GEOGRAPHY
2nd A/ B
Teachers:
Lorraine Gultris
Liliana Buratto
2015
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Concept map
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Goals
The syllabus aims are to encourage students to develop:
Knowledge:
Students should be able to:
 Give definitions and explanations of relevant geographical terms and concepts
 Show working knowledge of relevant principles, theories and models
 Recall accurately the location and character of chosen places and environments
 Show knowledge of the physical and human processes at work
Understanding and application
Students should be able to:
 Understand the complex and interactive nature of physical and human environments
 Understand how processes bring changes in systems, distributions and environments
 Recognize the distinctiveness and the generality of places and environments
 Recognize the significance of spatial scale and of time scale
 Apply this geographical understanding to new contexts
Skills and enquiry
Students should be able to:
 Collect, record and interpret a variety of information from primary (fieldwork) sources and
secondary sources (e.g. statistical data)
 Interpret a range of map and diagram techniques displaying geographical information
 Demonstrate skills of analysis and synthesis
 Use geographical understanding to develop their own explanations and hypotheses
Evaluation and decision-making
Students should be able to:
 Assess the effects of geographical processes and change on physical and human
environments
 Consider the relative success or failure of initiatives and demonstrate a sense of judgment
 Analyze the viewpoints of different groups of people and identify conflicts of interest
 Assess the decision-making process in physical and human contexts
 Recognize a number of possible outcomes from a given situation.
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Contents:
Unit1: Economic Activities.
 Classification of economic activities: Primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary activities.
Energy resources: Definition of resources. Types of resources: natural, human, renewable,
non-renewable. Non-renewable: oil, natural gas, nuclear, fuelwood. Renewable: wind,
solar energy, waves. Case study: Oil in Alaska.
 Farming: Farming system. Types of farming and its classification. Factors affecting farming.
Farming in MEDCs and LEDCs Farming and the environment..
 Industry as a system. Location of industries: industrial location factors. Growth and
changing. location: high-tech industries, business and science parks. The Pacific Rim.
Transnational corporations. Industry in less economically develop countries. Case study:
industries in a developed city and industries in a developing city.
 Tourism: Recent trends and changing patterns. National Parks. Coastal and mountain
resorts. Tourism in developing countries. Tourism and the environment.
 World development: Classification of industries. Employment structures. Differences in
world development: economic wealth and social factors. Trade and interdependence. Aid.
Case study: Japan – Kenya.
Unit2: Weather and Climate.
 The atmosphere. Weather and climate. The weather elements. Their relationship. The
atmospheric circulation and world climates: equatorial and tropical continental climates;
the monsoon, Mediterranean and cold climates.
 Tropical cyclones.
 Global warming. Effects of global warming.
 Acid rain
Unit 3: Land and water based hazards.
 Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The Earth: Internal structure. Special study of the
mantle Plate tectonics. Types of plate movement. Tectonic hazards: Causes and effects of
volcanic eruption in MEDCs and LEDCs. Causes and effects of earthquakes in MEDCs and
LEDCs.
 Flooding. Drainage basins. River discharge and flood hydrographs. River processes. River
landforms. Flooding. . Drainage basins management
 Soil erosion. Desertification
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