geography 2007 predictions.

maggie18x

Phsical:landforms...isotatic processes...sketch map of drainage
Regional:Economic Challenge.....development of one region...an economic activity

Has any one any predictions for culture and identity?????????
me thinks languge as a cultural indicator or a distinctive region based on identity.

Please Help Im Sooooooooo SCREWED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Corruptedmorals

Well, rock cycle...volcanoes maybe..rivers..some sort of tectonics...

Language is tipped for culture- woohoo! Easier than religion.

GretchenWieners

How do you answer sketchmap of drainage q? i'm slightly lost on what to put into the sketchmap.

maggie18x

GretchenWieners wrote:

How do you answer sketchmap of drainage q? i'm slightly lost on what to put into the sketchmap.

First draw a frame.then put in features.put a title on the map like OS CARLOW. then draw a key and your good to go.

regob

tell me if im stupid but for physical question im just learning rock cycle.

Limerick Dude

regob wrote:

tell me if im stupid but for physical question im just learning rock cycle.

you'd want to go over plate tectonics tbh

regob

i always thought that plate tectonics and the rock cycle would come up as two differnt questions. im going to learn plate tectonics anyways.

anybody regret doing this subject.

FunkZ

Boger!!!

I predict secondary activities of a European core region (not really I just wanted to type this out).

The Paris Basin

The Paris Basin is a European core region, and the city of Paris dominates French manufacturing. The Paris Basin is the most important manufacturing region in France and it employs 16% of the workforce. There are many growth industries such as chemicals and manufacturing. The region accounts for 27% of all French manufacturing, though part of the Paris Basin is regarded as a region of deindustrialistion as traditional manufacturing industries decline such as textiles, iron and steel.

-Energy is one of the major inputs in this region and nearly all energy has to be imported from outside the region. Oil is imported from Norway, the Middle East and North Africa. The oil for Paris is distributed from Le Harve through pipelines that flow through the city. Most of the electricity is from nuclear power stations such as the coast, Penly, and the south and East, Nogent, of Paris.
-Transport is another major input. Paris is the hub of the French motorway system and it is connected to all major French cities and to Belgium, Germany and Italy. Many flexible good are exported and imported by truck on the roads. Electric railways also connect Paris to European Countrys like Italy, Germany and even to England via the Channel Tunnel. This is extremely useful for transporting goods in and out of the country.

Paris has a long tradition of manufacturing and most of the region has adapted to the changes needed for modern manufacturing. There is a large work force for labour intensive industries. This includes foreign workers that come looking for jobs. A highly skilled labour force is needed for many electronic and engineering jobs and 36% of Frances 3rd level institutions are based in the Paris Basin.

Le Havre-Rouen area has had a great increase in oil refining, chemical and electrical good. The Orleans Tours region has had a great growth in high tech industries, and the Reim-Troyes area depends on traditional manufacturing industries such as textiles and food processing.

Man I didn't go to bed yet, I hate when I can't sleep...

magher

I studied South west America and can't find of any economic challenges?

maggie18x

magher wrote:

I studied South west America and can't find of any economic challenges?

an economic challenge is eg in the BMW an overdependance on agri...or maybe the **** services...basically anything that is a problem facing the econony.u need to pile all the info into an answer urself.it is defo gonna come up mark my words....

also do one for india which cud be an overdependance on agri also or a challenge cud be the rural to urban migration and use calcutta as a case study for the negative effects.
a challenge facing the mezz cud be having to modernaise agri...of elseattracting industry to the region.look up the sample answers on www.e-xamit.ie with ur exam papers.

ninebeanrows

All i say is Global Warming better come up for the option!!

blondie07

Hey just a quick question. we did geoecology and culture and identity. iv done characteristics of a biome and human interaction, but i was going to do language as a cultural indicator in culture and identity too just to be safe. would you lay out the answer 1) english 2) irish 3) welsh, we didnt spend very much time doing it. also, im doing the cool temperate biome and for the characteristics i have a paragraph on the forests and deforestation, is it ok to put it in there or do i have to stick with climate, flora, fauna etc.? thanks!

sternn

blondie07 wrote:

im doing the cool temperate biome and for the characteristics i have a paragraph on the forests and deforestation, is it ok to put it in there or do i have to stick with climate, flora, fauna etc.? thanks!

you can do it...according to my teacher. do you think it is ok to link in climate and location, and flora and fauna?
the characteristics of a biome im doing are:

1. Soils
2. Climate and location
3. Flora and fauna
4. Forest clearance and replacement

blondie07

sternn wrote:

you can do it...according to my teacher. do you think it is ok to link in climate and location, and flora and fauna?
the characteristics of a biome im doing are:

1. Soils
2. Climate and location
3. Flora and fauna
4. Forest clearance and replacement

Thats what im doing. think it'll be fine. and actually, i dont see why u couldnt put in forest clearance, i realise it is human interaction but it is still a characteristic and there's nothing to say u cant put it in.

estebancambias

Eh, charachteristics will not be coming up, like its 99 per cent certain.

cabla

sternn wrote:

you can do it...according to my teacher. do you think it is ok to link in climate and location, and flora and fauna?
the characteristics of a biome im doing are:

1. Soils
2. Climate and location
3. Flora and fauna
4. Forest clearance and replacement

Ehh whats this all about....what q that??

GretchenWieners

c'mon factors affecting soil characteristics for geoecology!!

Eddie Ere

estebancambias wrote:

Eh, charachteristics will not be coming up, like its 99 per cent certain.

99% certain? Please expand that.

estebancambias

Shocking for you isn't it? Yes I once had dreams of writing happily about fauna and vegetation etc. in the exam but then I unearthed something morbid(Used this in my essay) That question was up last year and is not widely expected, however if it was it would be a beutiful suprise.

Eddie Ere

estebancambias wrote:

Shocking for you isn't it? Yes I once had dreams of writing happily about fauna and vegetation etc. in the exam but then I unearthed something morbid(Used this in my essay) That question was up last year and is not widely expected, however if it was it would be a beutiful suprise.

Human activity was also up last year, its a toss up between them both for repitition this year surely?

estebancambias

You may be correct but I think that the question this year on biomes will be as follows

3. HOW do Humans impact on biomeS

cabla

What is biomes...can anyone tell me...and chapter please..never heard of it :S

Eddie Ere

cabla wrote:

What is biomes...can anyone tell me...and chapter please..never heard of it :S

In the Option section of the paper.

And if you haven't looked at by this stage I highly advise you not to make a start on it now...



And estebancambias, the Geography paper isn't predictable, it's only the second year of the new course, so guessing the type of question is virtually impossible as there is no pattern!

blondie07

Eddie Ere wrote:

Human activity was also up last year, its a toss up between them both for repitition this year surely?

exactly. the guy on 606 said that this year itd prob be 2 soil questions and one on biomes so its gonna be one of the two. and im not gonna throw away easy marks by not doing it!

totally confused. just checked the marking scheme for last year and it said that "maximum of 2 characteristics from within any one of climate/soil/fauna etc". what does that mean?! what other characteristic are you supposed to use?

cabla

Eddie Ere wrote:

In the Option section of the paper.

And if you haven't looked at by this stage I highly advise you not to make a start on it now...



And estebancambias, the Geography paper isn't predictable, it's only the second year of the new course, so guessing the type of question is virtually impossible as there is no pattern!

Ahh no wonder, i'm doing global Interdependence. Anyone any tips on that?

maggie18x

hey iv just bein goin through my exam papers there now and im wonderin how possible is it for them to change the format of the exam paper?im only studying river processes for physical geog but if they start mixing up the river,rock and tectonic im seriously focked.........i heard theres a new guy settting the exam paper this year so who knows we might get a land tomorrow afternoon.........:( :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

sternn

blondie07 wrote:

totally confused. just checked the marking scheme for last year and it said that "maximum of 2 characteristics from within any one of climate/soil/fauna etc". what does that mean?! what other characteristic are you supposed to use?

What they mean by this is that you can mix a maximum of 2 characteristics in each heading.
E.G. Instead of dealing with flora and fauna as 2 separate characterists in your answer, you can deal with flora and fauna as one characteristic. This the same for climate and location etc....because it can be hard to get the required amount of SRP's from one single characteristic such as flora.

maggie18x wrote:

hey iv just bein goin through my exam papers there now and im wonderin how possible is it for them to change the format of the exam paper?im only studying river processes for physical geog but if they start mixing up the river,rock and tectonic im seriously focked.........i heard theres a new guy settting the exam paper this year so who knows we might get a land tomorrow afternoon...

I seriously doubt that the examiner would make any drastic changes to the exam paper. As it is in its second year, he would probably would not want to make it any harder, as it is already tough enough to learn the course...never mind being able to write everything down in time. I doubt they would mix up different sections of Core 1 (rivers/rocks/tectonic), and if they did, it probably wouldn't be from all three sections.. (i hope!!!!!) :eek:

sternn

Can someone please tell me all their characteristics for biomes???

I have just worked out (from the syllabus, a dictionary and the internet) that deforestation is not a characteristic of a biome....im almost certain. It says on the syllabus that "These biomes are world regions characterised by groups of plants and animals adapted to specific conditions of climate, soils and biotic inter-relationship"

Biotic inter-relationship

All of the natural living organisms in a planning area and their life processes. A resource classification category which subdivides the natural resources and properties into either the biotic or the abiotic (nonliving) entities and characteristics. Human activities are not usually grouped with either of these categories because they are not considered to be a part of a planning area's natural entities or characteristics. Nevertheless, native cultures have been actively influencing the course of biotic activity in some areas for centuries.

Do you think that these "native cultures" can be considered the people who fell trees? AAAAAHHHHHHH :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

maggie18x

hey stern what are u banking on to come up?

ninebeanrows

maggie18x wrote:

hey stern what are u banking on to come up?

There will be lots of choice, i really wouldn't worry, with Geography your always going to be able to write something for the elective and regional questions from your general knowledge, and section 1 will get you 60+ marks.

sternn

Basically, im doing:

Q. 1,2,3 : River processes and landforms, how humans affect a process, and gona look over tectonics

Q. 4,5,6 : This is what i'm completely lost for. I know Dublin/BMW very well and can kind of bull**** through it. Maybe primary and tertiary activities in european region and india. Also, EU expansion to the irish economy

Q. 7,8,9 : learning MNC, EU policies, energy, and globalisation/colonialism and hopefully I will be covered for 1 question

Q. 16,17,18 : Hope to god characteristics of biome or human interference with a biome come up. (i think they are the only 2 questions they can ask on biomes) if otherwise, please tell me!!!

sternn

Weathercheck wrote:

There will be lots of choice, i really wouldn't worry, with Geography your always going to be able to write something for the elective and regional questions from your general knowledge, and section 1 will get you 60+ marks.

I just realised yesterday that if you get full marks in the report, in the short questions, and in all 3 A parts...that is 48% without having touched the essay questions. So that is a big plus for all you guys out there on that end of the scale.
If you are looking for your A, well you cant afford to miss out on too many SRP's, as if you miss out on 1, it costs you 4 marks, as OC goes down aswell. There is so much choice, so I really do not see myself getting below a B.

Limerick Dude

My text book is eco and im pretty sure it has nothing on eu expansion on irish econony.

I do economics so i could answer that question but i wouldnt be sure if its the same points needed.....

sternn

Limerick Dude wrote:

My text book is eco and im pretty sure it has nothing on eu expansion on irish econony.

I do economics so i could answer that question but i wouldnt be sure if its the same points needed.....

You may want to take a gander at last year's paper:

Examine the impact of EU expansion on Ireland's economy and/or culture.

maggie18x

im listening to the geog podcast at the mo but he said that biomes might not come up so be carefull!!!
for regional defo do an economic challenge facing each of the regions,an economic activity in each and about the eu coz its so topical

listen to it its really good: http://pc.rte.ie/2007/pc/pod-v-010607-12m58s-606-geography.mp3

sternn

Oh and by the way, I have the same book and find it awful. My teacher has given us out huge amounts of photocopies from other books and notes aswell to suppliment the book.

maggie18x

no one seems to be doing culture and identity???i cant understand why we did cause deres 12different topics they could ask whereas with geocology deres only 4.......ah well:(

sternn

It seems to be an odd choice, most people seem to be doing geoecology. But im sure it is quite managable itself.
Ahh, got so much work to do in the next 10 hours, honours maths and geography....:eek:

maggie18x

thats it i have to get off this d=site its soooo physctracking its unbelievable.
GET OFF THIS SITE AND STUDY!!!!!!

Limerick Dude

I will kill someone if there is no biome question!

nedward

My headings for a biome:
Climate
Temperature
Precipitation levels

Soil
Aridisol
Processes involved in forming an aridisol
Calcification/Salinisation

Vegetation
Adaptations required to survive, i.e. waxy outer layers, short life cycles, taproots, radial roots, storing water in pulp
Irrigation leading to improved natural environment

Fauna
Adaptations of animals, e.g nocturnal, produce uric acid rather than urine, long ears, methods of saving energy

nedward

maggie18x wrote:

i about the eu coz its so topical

Don't do the EU for regional. You might think it's all general knowledge, but they screwed me last year when I answered that question. You have to have all these different impacts on Ireland, and it's really hard to get full marks as it takes so long to get it all down.

blondie07

Limerick Dude wrote:

I will kill someone if there is no biome question!

Me too! i dont really see it happening, the biome is a pretty important part of the option. my teacher's corrected papers for 12 years and we skimmed over soil cuz she said we'd def have a biome question. if there's no biome question, perhaps il kill her!

maggie18x

nedward wrote:

Don't do the EU for regional. You might think it's all general knowledge, but they screwed me last year when I answered that question. You have to have all these different impacts on Ireland, and it's really hard to get full marks as it takes so long to get it all down.

i think theres a good chance of sovernity coming up..thats how they might vary the question.

its official i am addicted to boards.how will i cope after this leaving is finished in three days.........happy days:cool:

melsman

Limerick Dude wrote:

I will kill someone if there is no biome question!

i'll go with you!

mang87

Who is fretting about geography? Even at higher level its next to impossible to fail. I did no study for it last year, at all, and came out with a c2 (higher).

Although I am interested in geography, so I probably just picked up the stuff as the year went along and remembered it. That and how easy it is to bull**** an answer in it.

ninebeanrows

It's 7pm and i still have half the geog course to flick through. I also have lots of maths studying and proof learning to do.

Oh foooooooooook :rolleyes:

Limerick Dude

Weathercheck wrote:

It's 7pm and i still have half the geog course to flick through. I also have lots of maths studying and proof learning to do.

Oh foooooooooook :rolleyes:

Same here man, i have to write out a human interference essay

and study maths and do the rest of the geog course hsdvnsdjfvnsdjnhosdvnsdjfhjkasdhfuisrftsejhfjsdusdghfuioshdih


AAAARRRRGHHH

maggie18x

has anyone any advice or tips for the culture and identity option????

yeah me too i have so much geog its not even funny....

is averyone here banking on rivers for question one and if they are what do they think is gonna come up.its seriously gonna be an all nighter tonight for me...:(
my eyes in the morning....:eek:

sully88

Aone got tips for the economic elective? I would say there will be something on MNC's, the environmental impact of econimic activites(global warming).
Is language pretty much a guarantee for culture/identity option as was not asked last year nad the other 3 were?

maggie18x

yeah its hotly tipped anyways im prayin that it will come up.ill have a fit if it doesnt.but they could be put on religion as a cultural indicator just to screw us all..
ive also done an essay on the balkans if they ask about a distincive region.
if you have the edco book look in the very front of your book and see the syllabus outline.dat is only what they can ask u on.but if they ask anything to do with racial conflict or ethnicity i am screwed or anything to do with the culural groups without nationality or conflict between cultural groups and political boundaries.
im leavin out migration and colonialism defo...

Language all the way!!!!!!!!!!!!

by the way how long does your essays be.mines 2 and a half to 3.is that too short or too long?