Geography predictions

Victoria.

Anybody want to share predictions?

Victoria.

Physical:
Landform development
Formation of sedimentary and resulting landscape
Humans and natural processes
Humans interaction with rock cycle

Regional:
India primary and secondary
Dublin tertiary
Belgium cultural region

Geoecology:
Characteristics of a biome

Human Elective:
Migration
Overpopulation


What topics are you covering?

gonnaplayrugby

is characheristics of a biome likely to come up and if so how should you layout this answer?

physical
formation of waterfall
quarrying
global distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes(link to plate tectonics)
karst region-burren

region
primary-bmw
secondary-dublin
teriary-dublin

primary-paris
secondary-paris
teriarty-mezzogiorno

cultural-belgium

economic elective
globalisations and colononialisation
mncs
fossil fuels

Victoria.

Yep biome characteristics is the most likely biome question to appear because the human question was asked last year.

You are required to talk about 3/4 elements in your answer so you could divide it into soil climate animals and plants or just 3 of those but in more detail. I think doing 4 is easier though because you can write less on any one particular point that way!

unknown13

I don't really care for predictions about Geography because you have a nice choice of questions on that paper.

Limerickhurler

Victoria. wrote: »

Yep biome characteristics is the most likely biome question to appear because the human question was asked last year.

You are required to talk about 3/4 elements in your answer so you could divide it into soil climate animals and plants or just 3 of those but in more detail. I think doing 4 is easier though because you can write less on any one particular point that way!

I have an essay about the development of a biome which covers plants, climate and animals, would that be the same thing? The word development is just confusing me.

Ruski

It's basically the same paper every year. Once you can answer questions on one year, you can answer them all.

Victoria.

Limerickhurler wrote: »

I have an essay about the development of a biome which covers plants, climate and animals, would that be the same thing? The word development is just confusing me.

Yeh it would be. It's the way that plants and animals have adapted to the conditions in their environment. You would do the same about climate and soil and outline those. Then you would do your other two paragraphs about plants and animals just stating 'these unique examples of plants and animals have adapted in this region as a result of these soil and climate characteristics'.

Just give a few examples like nocturnal animals who avoid the hot temperatures of the day and predators. Animals that use camouflage to conceal themselves or others that use it to sneak up on their prey. Plants that have waterproof cuticles that minimise water loss in a desert. Insect pollinated plants that are brightly coloured and smell sweet to attract insects. etc.

Megsy

So do people think Migration, out-migration, overpopulation etc. is very likely to come up this year? Because I am finding Geography seriously overwhelming at this stage and that is pretty much the majority of what I know for the human elective.

Victoria.

Megsy wrote: »

So do people think Migration, out-migration, overpopulation etc. is very likely to come up this year? Because I am finding Geography seriously overwhelming at this stage and that is pretty much the majority of what I know for the human elective.

Yeh those things come up every year. You should be fine
My weakest area in geog is definitely the human elective don't know why I think its because I crammed it before the mocks and it was never given as much time as regional or physical.

I'm doing

• migration
• overpopulation
• donor effects migration
• receiver effects migration
• urban problems
• urban sprawl
• density and distribution contributing factors

Megsy

Victoria. wrote: »

Yeh those things come up every year. You should be fine
My weakest area in geog is definitely the human elective don't know why I think its because I crammed it before the mocks and it was never given as much time as regional or physical.

I'm doing

• migration
• overpopulation
• donor effects migration
• receiver effects migration
• urban problems
• urban sprawl
• density and distribution contributing factors

Yeah I'm the same! It's relatively straight-forward but it still just goes over my head haha.

Your list sounds good, I know most of them too so I'm feeling a bit better about it now!

Victoria.

Megsy wrote: »

Yeah I'm the same! It's relatively straight-forward but it still just goes over my head haha.

Your list sounds good, I know most of them too so I'm feeling a bit better about it now!

Yep seems pretty basic
Just the last thing I study all the time!
Strange, only part of geog I'm really worried about!

Victoria.

Has anybody studied a climate region?
Was wondering if it came up which as far as I know it never has could I just wing it and use stuff that I know for a biome question?

brian1991

I've only revised overpopulation, with about fifteen facts.
I'm not sure about migration as it appeared the past two years, but I guess there only about six main sections in Patterns & Processes in the Human Environment.

Megsy

Does anybody have any more predictions about what might come up in regional?

**Timbuk2**

It's likely that the plate tectonics question could be 'What is the evidence for plate tectonics?' or something along those lines.

Victoria.

Megsy wrote: »

Does anybody have any more predictions about what might come up in regional?

Sub-continent:

• Primary
• Secondary
• Culture is very likely

Irish:

• Teriary
• Secondary

Paris Basin

• Tertiary probably tourism
• Primary activities

Mezz:

• Tourism
• Just a general answer on population distribution and contributing factors

Belgium:

• Culture

EU and Ireland

That's what I'm doing hope helps!

Megsy

Victoria. wrote: »

Sub-continent:

• Primary
• Secondary
• Culture is very likely

Irish:

• Teriary
• Secondary

Paris Basin

• Tertiary probably tourism
• Primary activities

Mezz:

• Tourism
• Just a general answer on population distribution and contributing factors

Belgium:

• Culture

EU and Ireland

That's what I'm doing hope helps!

Yes it really does thank you!

AK.

if characteristics of a biome dont come up i think ill just sit and cry for the hole exam.. iv spent 16 hours over the last 2days doing geography and im still screwed

Victoria. wrote: »

Physical:
Landform development
Formation of sedimentary and resulting landscape
Humans and natural processes
Humans interaction with rock cycle

Regional:
India primary and secondary
Dublin tertiary
Belgium cultural region

Geoecology:
Characteristics of a biome

Human Elective:
Migration
Overpopulation


What topics are you covering?

AK.

is culture of belgium definitly going to come up. i cant find anything in my book. anyone no wer i could find a good essay to learn?

Victoria.

AK. wrote: »

is culture of belgium definitly going to come up. i cant find anything in my book. anyone no wer i could find a good essay to learn?

Yep very good chance!
Do sub cont culture as well like India.

xxmeabhxx

My teacher reckons the formation of igneous rocks will come up because sedimentary rocks has come up a few times all ready, every year human interaction with either the rock cycle or mass movement comes up, the rock cycle one is more common, I think there was only one year when it didn't come up and sometimes both come up, also secondary activities in a sub-continental region has never come up so that's probably worth looking at.

BarbiePink

AK. wrote: »

is culture of belgium definitly going to come up. i cant find anything in my book. anyone no wer i could find a good essay to learn?

Use the edco papers and find out where questions to do with culture came up and use the www.e-xamit.ie code and print out an answer! Its all about the Flemish and Flanders etc. Maybe google it ?

aoife365

In geoecology what can you say about brown soils i have checked my books but there is just a little bit on it how can you write 2-3 pageson it

dambarude

Did you try wikipedia? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_earth)

Make sure you have it divided into 3 or 4 main points/paragraphs.

DancingQueen:)

aoife365 wrote: »

In geoecology what can you say about brown soils i have checked my books but there is just a little bit on it how can you write 2-3 pageson it

I'd write paragraphs on:

• What soil I have chosen, what it contains etc.
• Mineral matter
• Organic matter and Humus
• Air and Water
• Soil pH
• Soil Colour
• Structure
• Texture
• Types of soils in Ireland

I hope Characteristics of a biome come up instead though because I can't for the life of me remember this, no matter how many times I study it! Hope this helps.

**Timbuk2**

My class are doing the Tropical Rainforest biome but I think it's easier to answer on the desert biome (e.g. southwest USA). Is this ok to do? Do many people do this biome, for the characteristics?

I am only learning off four answers for Geoecology - I hope I'm ok with my choices

• Characteristics of a biome - Desert Biome

• Plant/animal adaptations to a biome - Tropical Rainforest (it isn't that easy to answer this using the desert biome)

• Composition + Characteristics of a soil - Brown Earth Soil

• How humans accelerate soil erosion - desertification in the Sahel

Hopefully I'll be ok with this. I've checked back through all the years and I would have been able to answer at least one of the questions with one of these answers

DancingQueen:)

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

My class are doing the Tropical Rainforest biome but I think it's easier to answer on the desert biome (e.g. southwest USA). Is this ok to do? Do many people do this biome, for the characteristics?

I am only learning off four answers for Geoecology - I hope I'm ok with my choices

• Characteristics of a biome - Desert Biome

• Plant/animal adaptations to a biome - Tropical Rainforest (it isn't that easy to answer this using the desert biome)

• Composition + Characteristics of a soil - Brown Earth Soil

• How humans accelerate soil erosion - desertification in the Sahel

Hopefully I'll be ok with this. I've checked back through all the years and I would have been able to answer at least one of the questions with one of these answers

Yeah you should be fine, my teacher only told us we needed to know two, i'm learning three to be safe though; Characteristics of a biome, a question on soils and a question on human activity in biomes. I know deforestation for the economic section but don't think i'd be able to do an answer worth 80marks on it.

As for biomes, I like the rainforest one and know it off by heart so i'd be delighted if it came up but if you have enough on the desert there's no reason why you couldn't do it.

yesno1234

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

My class are doing the Tropical Rainforest biome but I think it's easier to answer on the desert biome (e.g. southwest USA). Is this ok to do? Do many people do this biome, for the characteristics?

I am only learning off four answers for Geoecology - I hope I'm ok with my choices

• Characteristics of a biome - Desert Biome

• Plant/animal adaptations to a biome - Tropical Rainforest (it isn't that easy to answer this using the desert biome)

• Composition + Characteristics of a soil - Brown Earth Soil

• How humans accelerate soil erosion - desertification in the Sahel

Hopefully I'll be ok with this. I've checked back through all the years and I would have been able to answer at least one of the questions with one of these answers

Hopefully? You should be 100% covered with these four learnt off. I only really know the characteristics of the desert biome but this practically covers me for how plant, animal has adapted.

Secondary India looks almost a definite to come up.

The patterns and processes in human environment is definately the most difficult section on the paper.

**Timbuk2**

Thanks for the replies

Does anybody have any tips for learning off the Regional Section? I have left my study a bit too late, and I am finding the Regional Section very large and overwhelming.

I mean there is the GDA, BMW, Paris Basin, Mezzogiorno and Subcontinental Regions, and each of those have Primary, Economic and Tertiary. That's 15 answers already. Add in the development of an urban region for GDA, Paris Basin and Subcontinental, that's 18. Then there is cultural differences in a subcontinental region, and also importance of culture in defining a region. That's 20 now!

Then there are regions of culture (Belgium, Gaeltacht, Islam World). That's 23 so far!
Then there is the whole EU expansion case study! (it's very difficult to learn).

*Head explodes at the thought of learning 24 answers*

Does anybody have any tips for the learning Regional Section? I find it by far the most difficult section to study for, as there is simply so much.

This time next week Geography will be finished with!

DancingQueen:)

I've had different teachers for Geography and never really understood it but I went up to my teacher last week and told her and she explained it really well. Break it up into sections.

Primary: Talk about farming, fishing and/or forestry (depends on the place). If you talk abot farming focus on relief, soils, climate and drainage. You can make a whole question on farming but i'd usually talk about the others briefly aswel.

Secondary: I'd focus on manufacturing and MNC's locating in an area (already know it from economic) I'd write about markets,free trade, labour, communications, transport, government influence etc.

Tertiary: I'd focus on Tourism (accessibility, amenities and attractions) and sometimes if I didn't have enough I'd write about transport aswel.

I wouldn't learn about each activity for each region though.
I know 3 for each, one in Europe, one in Ireland and then the Sub continent.

When I go into the exam i'll write what I did just there and then be able to match it to whatever question I get. Then I'd also earn off culture for the Sub Continent (my teacher thinks it's going to come up) and urban growth for Dublin and Paris.

Alice10

We have done 2 non Irish european regions but is there any need to do two? would one be enough?

DancingQueen:)

Alice10 wrote: »

We have done 2 non Irish european regions but is there any need to do two? would one be enough?

I've done two aswel, the Mezzigiorno and the Paris Basin. I'm going to talk about both. The Mezzigorno for Primary and Secondary activities and the Paris Basin for tertiary activities and Urban Growth. As far as I know they havn't specified asking us to answer about activities in a core or Periphary (thats probably spelled wrong) region but I guess there's nothing stopping them.

Alice10

Would anyone have a sample essay on the characteristics of a Biome?

gonnaplayrugby

ye desert biome pref...wud be swellll

Victoria.

They have good sample answers in revise wise if any of you have that!
I'm doing the rainforest though so sorry don't know anything about desert biome.

**Timbuk2**

That's for that post about regions DancingQueen - it was extremely helpful!

Alice10

Im doing cool temperate deciduous forest biome and we never did an essay on the characteristics

Victoria.

Alice10 wrote: »

Im doing cool temperate deciduous forest biome and we never did an essay on the characteristics

You sure about that? It's usually the first thing you do!
Basically you just split it into four parts:

• Soil
• Climate
• Animals
• Plants

And you write as much as you can in the time limit. It says to so the question addressing 3/4 elements so actually you can leave one of those out if you want but I find it easier to do all four and write less on each! Hope that helps, maybe you just did each bit in class but didn't write it into essay form! Should be couple of pages.

Good one this year actually to study, human interaction came up last year!
Luck to ya with the study.
Hope that helps a bit

fufureida

Does anyone know if studying Egypt is ok as a subcontinental I have great answers for it I got off a leaving very website...

erica!

fufureida wrote: »

Does anyone know if studying Egypt is ok as a subcontinental I have great answers for it I got off a leaving very website...

Hey am i went onto the geography syllabus there (www.education.ie)- Geography revised syllabus... Pg 14 it just says a NON eu region... it doesnt actually specify (as far as i can see) but i think you should ask a teacher iv never heard of anyone doing egypt as a subcontinental...

erica!

and does anyone know if its actually compulsory to devide the long essay up into 3/4 sections?

Victoria.

erica! wrote: »

and does anyone know if its actually compulsory to devide the long essay up into 3/4 sections?

Yes it definitely is. It says you must address the question in 3/4 separate parts it actually says this on the papers.

GVNDNN

What exactly do you write about for Belgium and culture...
Could you take the Gaeltacht instead?

Ps...
Any predictions on Culture and Identity or Human Elective?

Victoria.

GVNDNN wrote: »

What exactly do you write about for Belgium and culture...
Could you take the Gaeltacht instead?

Ps...
Any predictions on Culture and Identity or Human Elective?

Belgium:
I usually write about the differences in culture of Flanders and Wallonia, this answer would focus on language. You should study it, very likely to come up or maybe culture in your subcontinent region like India.

I don't do that option on Culture and Identity so can't help you there sorry.

Human Elective:

1. Migration
2. Overpopulation
3. Problems in cities
4. 2 land use models - probably concentric zone and multiple nuclei
5. Urban growth
6. Historic settlement

pbowenroe

xxmeabhxx wrote: »

My teacher reckons the formation of igneous rocks will come up because sedimentary rocks has come up a few times all ready, every year human interaction with either the rock cycle or mass movement comes up, the rock cycle one is more common, I think there was only one year when it didn't come up and sometimes both come up, also secondary activities in a sub-continental region has never come up so that's probably worth looking at.

If human interaction with the rock cycle comes up could they ask for a specific way humans interact withe the rock cycle eg. geothermal energy, or will they give you a choice?

pbowenroe

Also, does anyone think that the characteristics of a biome is a likely question? And the characteristics of a soil type?
Thanks peeps.

Victoria.

pbowenroe wrote: »

If human interaction with the rock cycle comes up could they ask for a specific way humans interact withe the rock cycle eg. geothermal energy, or will they give you a choice?

There will always be a choice because as far as I know you only have to study one.

Victoria.

pbowenroe wrote: »

Also, does anyone think that the characteristics of a biome is a likely question? And the characteristics of a soil type?
Thanks peeps.

Characteristics of a biome definitely

pbowenroe

Thanks Victoria.

3fullback

Advice?

I'm looking to study secondary sector of a Continetal/Sub-Continetal region

Anyone have anybody prepared.