geog HL

flag123

can i be assured that global warming or deforestfication or desertfication to come up?.looking through exam papers i noticed it comes up every year.

Sean_Ludawg

flag123 wrote: »

looking through exam papers i noticed it comes up every year.

That's why we cannot be sure.

I'm still learning it off anyway though.

smndly

If I study both biomes Questions will i be covered?

star-pants

One thing I learnt about geography LeavingCert is to have a brief knowledge of it all, yes you can predict some stuff, but you're better to cover your backside.

haloauto

smndly wrote: »

If I study both biomes Questions will i be covered?

Characteristics of a Biome and Human Interaction with a Biome? Yea, should be.

Even if you just learnt one question you could easily manipulate it anyway.
But study to understand, not study to memorise....

happydayz182

For geography am i taking a big risk or a calculated risk by only know the bmw for irish region and mezzo for european with South west usa?

RetroRainbow

Yeah, I'm going to look at Biomes, too!

haloauto

happydayz182 wrote: »

For geography am i taking a big risk or a calculated risk by only know the bmw for irish region and mezzo for european with South west usa?

I don't know how you couldn't be prepared for GDA too......primate city, core region, nodal point, people migrate from west, change in urban land use (docklands), Primary activites, secondary activities, tertiary activities blah blah.... it's not that hard to think up things about the GDA.
They could ask you to compare two regions in Ireland etc.
If they ask you about urban expansion etc. in a european non-Irish region, it'll be hard to do it on Mezzogiorno.

What I'll be able to write about:
BMW
GDA
Sambre Meuse (Belgium)
Mezzigiorno
Paris Basin
Brazil
India
Northern Ireland

Beau x1

I'm going for the deforestation/desertification combo. There's really no point in doing a half assed attempt at learning more than one option. DOUBLE OR NOTHING.

galway.gaa

will i be save leaving out the sambre meusse and cultural qs.
i dont have time to learn them now!!!!!

Dante

I'm learning the two human impact answers for biomes and soils and praying to allah for it to come up! I might glimpse over characteristics of a biome just incase.

haloauto

Mr.S wrote: »

GDA?

You're in it....:p
Greater Dublin Area.

Uaschamóg

if the question says to desribe an irish landform


can you write about a waterfall? or a v-glen? or does it have to be the burren?

haloauto

Uaschamóg wrote: »

if the question says to desribe an irish landform


can you write about a waterfall? or a v-glen? or does it have to be the burren?

If it doesn't specify the type e.g fluvial, coastal, volcanic, plutonic..... you can do anything.
Waterfalls, Sea stacks, Batholith, Ox-bow lake, cirques etc.

Beau x1

Lads. Does anyone have a clue what's coming up for the economic elective? MNC's, Colonialism..etc?

Cheers.

aisling.laura

Uaschamóg wrote: »

if the question says to desribe an irish landform


can you write about a waterfall? or a v-glen? or does it have to be the burren?

yup waterfall, ox-bow lake, etc.
just as long as you have an actual irish example of it.

awhir

any ideas for human elective ?

Gavin "shels"

flag123 wrote: »

can i be assured that global warming or deforestfication or desertfication to come up?.looking through exam papers i noticed it comes up every year.

Well it's come up every year since it got changed in 2006. I'd be 90% sure it would beup, otherwise I'm fecked.

Swizz

Beau x1 wrote: »

Lads. Does anyone have a clue what's coming up for the economic elective? MNC's, Colonialism..etc?

Cheers.

theyre the popular ones and Im hoping for em!

Beau x1

So if I know the CAP (example of EU policy), MNC's (Dell), Colonialism (Portugal + Brazil)...I should be ok?

aisling.laura

Beau x1 wrote: »

So if I know the CAP (example of EU policy), MNC's (Dell), Colonialism (Portugal + Brazil)...I should be ok?

well thats what i'm doing so i hope so!

though they can ask about two EU policies so maybe knowing the CFP wouldn't be of harm.

oh and sustainable development nearly always comes up too, you know, the conflict between exploiting natural resources and not harming the environment etc.
so the corrib gas line case study..

those three topics you've picked could come up, one in each question and then you'd be fcuked if you didn't know the other part so just be careful.

christina_x

ok because my teacher is a bum, im trying to cram an entire course that i havnt learned today for the exam tomorrow!

anyways, im workin on exam questions.
"referring to any one of the following, examine how humans interact with the rock cycle:
Mining
quarrying
oil/gas exploration
geothermal energy production"

so i was going to do gas but would i talk about gas in general (formation ect) or would i just talk completly about the corrib gas field and the problems and benefits of it ect?

imfreein09

wel im doin oil and gas exploriation in the north sea

Beau x1

Lads I'm so worried that deforestation/desertification won't come up. It's come up in the past 3 years.

halp

Gi joe!

awhir wrote: »

any ideas for human elective ?

I'm covering Overpop,
2 urban land use theories
Probs in developing cities well+developed briefly
Central Place theory
Settlement+Historical patterns
Could prob bull**** on population demographics(birth rates etc)

Overpop should hopefully come up since migration came up last yr and they seem interchangeble. CP theory hasnt come up since 06.

Any one doin the Culture nd identity option?
I have only religion as a source of conflict covered and have no idea wat else to cram for!:(

ImJohn

Anyone read the answer for characteristics for soil on the Irish times? I'm telling yeah that will come up, why would they put it on the front page and a perfect answer for it? And they did a sample for soil processes sooooo me thinks both of them are coming up and one biome question (prob impacts on a biome, well hopefully).

Jello

ImJohn wrote: »

Anyone read the answer for characteristics for soil on the Irish times? I'm telling yeah that will come up, why would they put it on the front page and a perfect answer for it? And they did a sample for soil processes sooooo me thinks both of them are coming up and one biome question (prob impacts on a biome, well hopefully).

This in today's paper?

ImJohn

Nope few weeks back.

zonEEE

ImJohn wrote: »

Nope few weeks back.

is it online?

smndly

happydayz182 wrote: »

For geography am i taking a big risk or a calculated risk by only know the bmw for irish region and mezzo for european with South west usa?

Im doing a similar thing. They've always asked a general Irish/Euro question so fingers crossed but im going to have a read over the others just in case... After all the paper is written by a different person this year so you never know!

ImJohn

strongr wrote: »

is it online?

I don't think so

If you want I can scan it on for ye..

piggies

why is everyone saying human impact on biomes is coming up this year when it was on last year??

sofa kingcool

What has everyone studied for geog? im quite worried about what will come up on the regional section..for the written part on physical ive learned :

-Limestone and limestone pavements
-Human interaction with rock cycle
-plate boundaries/techtonics
-earthquakes

gonna learn formation of a waterfall tonight!

then for the patterns and processes in the human environment:

-urban functions
-population/overpopulation
-migration

then for the option:

-biomes

ive learned some parts of the regional but im just worried the parts ive learned wont come up!

what have you all learned?

piggies

secondary and tertiary in sub continental region have never come up so i'd learn them.

and as for the biome there's due to be 2 soil q's and one biome q this year if it follows the pattern.....!

so much to learn so little time

ImJohn

Becuase 1 of the biomes have to come up..Last year it was 2 biomes 1 soil. This year it will be 2 soil and 1 biome. So it could be either characteristics of an biome or human impact on a biome.

piggies

or how plants and animals adapt to a biome...came up in 2007!

Claypigeon

I will be spending a half hour or so practicing sketching regions (Mezzogiorno, Belgium, BMW/GDA, Paris, Brazil), a few minutes to remind myself of a few waffley bits for historic settlement, definitely human interaction with the rock cycle (mining, in my case), revise problems that a city can face as it grows, diagrams that illustrate mass movement, plate tectonics and volcanicity are quite important, know my subcontinental regions and human impact on soil. Desertification and other bits and pieces I have saved here to read over on the PC are a must for me, too.

^That's probably a bit of a mess to read but it's what I'm looking out for to get high marks in, I have a good general knowledge imo so I can do at least "ok" in the rest and really nail certain things that can come up if they do.

I wouldn't stress at all to be quite honest with you - think of it logically and calm yourself down. The project is a big chunk - you only need a third to a half of the written for a good grade (at least from my PoV - I'm just wanting to get into my course, I don't know what you're after).

Be calm, learn it in chunks and make sure you understand what you're reading rather than going "Ok this this this" and learning off exact sentences. Know the ideas behind your SRPs - you won't have any trouble putting words on them when you know the odd statistic and a useful heap of facts.

ImJohn

You don't have much time but what I would do would be: primary/tertiary west of ireland, secondary dublin. Primary india and cultural. Messogiorno - primary, paris basin - secondary and maybe tertiary. do the problems all all 4 and hope for the best

sofa kingcool

please god let it be characteristics of a biome!!!!!

Claypigeon

sofa kingcool wrote: »

please god let it be characteristics of a biome!!!!!

There's a lot of choice, just revise another one at least to have an idea of it. Maybe one soil, one biome? They can overlap within those two sections quite frequently.

galway.gaa

ImJohn wrote: »

Becuase 1 of the biomes have to come up..Last year it was 2 biomes 1 soil. This year it will be 2 soil and 1 biome. So it could be either characteristics of an biome or human impact on a biome.

does it have to be this way? can they leave out the biome????????:o

Claypigeon

galway.gaa wrote: »

does it have to be this way? can they leave out the biome????????:o

There's always one of each methinks. Don't fret so much.

ThatWouldBeNice

Better to be safe - it's actually very quick to learn the basic soil characteristics and make-up, and you'll save yourself a bit of worry.

Personally I'm hoping for characteristics of a biome, too, but it came up last year - I don't think they'll put up such a vague, easy biome question again this year

Claypigeon

ThatWouldBeNice wrote: »

Better to be safe - it's actually very quick to learn the basic soil characteristics and make-up, and you'll save yourself a bit of worry.

Personally I'm hoping for characteristics of a biome, too, but it came up last year - I don't think they'll put up such a vague, easy biome question again this year

Quoted for truth, the soil stuff is very logical once you know the terminology involved.

sofa kingcool

ThatWouldBeNice wrote: »

Better to be safe - it's actually very quick to learn the basic soil characteristics and make-up, and you'll save yourself a bit of worry.

Personally I'm hoping for characteristics of a biome, too, but it came up last year - I don't think they'll put up such a vague, easy biome question again this year

:(:(

oh no!

manutd4life

for the regional i know dublin,mezzogiorno and south west usa.i'm studying global warming,deforestation.desertification but as back up i'm going over the aid debate

ThatWouldBeNice

oh no!

No, I didn't mean to scare you! Biome questions do seem to be repeated a lot, and they are always quite open. You'll be fine. (Just learn some soil to be safe!)

likely_lass

in the med biome if you said
average maximum temperatures are 28deg C (august) and average minimum temps are 12deg C(January). The Range of temperatures is 16deg C.

is that 1 SRP or 2 or 3

so confusing

sofa kingcool

ThatWouldBeNice wrote: »

No, I didn't mean to scare you! Biome questions do seem to be repeated a lot, and they are always quite open. You'll be fine. (Just learn some soil to be safe!)

right il try to cram a soil in tonight with the rest of the regional!

it will work...i think
:pac:

phase-3

If i cover: characteristics of a biome, proccesses that affect soil characteristics and how soil characteristics can be influenced by human interference will I be safe??

oh and is anyone studying the development of an Irish soil?

ThatWouldBeNice

I'm vaguely studying Brown Soils, Phase-3.

I think you should be fine with those choices, you can maybe fit them into another essay indirectly if you have to - an SRP is an SRP, at the end of the day.