GCSE Geography
Revision Checklist
Unit 1
Theme A: The Dynamic Landscape
The Drainage Basin: a component of the water cycle (booklet 1)
What is a drainage basin?
Features of a drainage basin (diagram and definitions)
Drainage Basin as a system (inputs, processes/transfers, stores and outputs)
How different factors affect the drainage basin
River Processes and Features (booklets 2a and 2b)
The river profile (2a)
How to measure the characteristics of a river (2a)
How the characteristics of a river change downstream (2a)
Processes of river erosion (2a)
Processes of river transportation (2a)
River deposition (2a)
The connections between river processes (2a)
Formation of Waterfalls (2b)
Features of Meanders (2b)
Formation of Ox Bow Lakes (2b)
Features of a Floodplain (2b)
Land use near rivers (2b)
Coastal Processes and Features (booklets 3a and 3b)
Waves – features of destructive and constructive waves (3a)
Processes of Coastal Erosion (CASH) (3a)
Coastal transportation (3a)
Coastal deposition (3a)
Cliffs (3b)
Wave cut notches and platforms (3b)
Caves, arches and stacks (3b)
Beaches (3b)
Longshore Drift (3b)
Spits (3b)
Land Use at the Coast (3b)
Sustainable Management of Rivers (booklet 4)
Use of rivers
What is flooding?
Physical causes of flooding
Human causes of flooding
Impacts of flooding on people
Impacts of flooding on the environment
River management – soft engineering strategies
River management – hard engineering strategies
Sustainable Management of Coasts (booklet 5)
Residential use of coasts
Tourism use of coasts
Transport use of coasts
Industrial use of coasts
The need for coastal defences
Sea walls
Gabions
Groynes
Beach nourishment
CASE STUDIES
The Causes of Flood in the British Isles – The River Derwent (1999) (4)
River Management Scheme outside the British Isles – Mississippi River, USA (4)
Coastal Management in the British Isles – Newcastle, Co. Down (5)
Theme B: Our Changing Weather and Climate
Measuring the Elements of Weather (booklet 1)
Difference between weather and climate
Elements, instruments and units of measurement
Correct usage and positioning of weather instruments
Clouds
Weather forecasting – sources of data
Weather Systems affecting the British Isles (booklet 2a and 2b)
Air masses (2a)
Air masses affecting the British Isles (2a)
Synoptic charts – reading weather system symbols (2a)
Fronts (2b)
Depressions (2b)
Sequence of weather in a depression (2b)
Anticyclones (2b)
Weather associated with winter and summer anticyclones (2b)
The Causes and Consequences of Climate Change (booklet 3a and 3b)
Global warming and the greenhouse effect (3a)
Natural causes of climate change (3a)
Human causes of climate change (3a)
Consequences of climate change (3a)
Dealing with climate change – The Kyoto Treaty (3b)
Alternative sources of energy (3b)
Renewable energy sources – how do they work? (3b)
Advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy (3b)
Additional solutions (3b)
CASE STUDIES
Effects of Climate Change on an MEDC – The UK (3a)
Theme C: The Restless Earth
Basic Rock Types (booklet 1)
Igneous rocks
Sedimentary rocks
Metamorphic rocks
The rock cycle
Plate Tectonics Theory (booklet 2)
Structure of the Earth
Tectonic plates
Different types of plate margin
Tectonic Activity in the British Isles (booklet 3)
Tectonic features of Northern Ireland
Lava plateaus
Basalt columns
Volcanic plugs
Earthquakes: Can They Be Managed (booklet 4)
Seismographs and the Richter scale
Features of an earthquake
Global distribution of earthquakes
CASE STUDIES
Earthquake in the British Isles – Market Rasen, Lincolnshire (3)
Earthquake in an MEDC – Kobe, Japan (4)
Earthquake in an LEDC – Indian Ocean earthquake, 2004 (4)