Geography essays MEGATHREAD!!

Astrozombies

treely wrote: »

Is everyone just learning all of the primary, secondary and tertiary essays for each of Dublin, West, Paris, Mezzogiorno and India/USA, or are you cutting off a few? I dont know which ones to do, or whether to just learn them all. I know that contrast of Mezzogiorno and Paris may come up, but what else are 'must-knows'?

I learned off all the essays on paris/mezzogiorno off by heart coupla weeks ago, still have to do brazil and irish regions tho
I wont have enough time to learn each essay up so I'm only doing tertiary activities in Irish regions, it's bound it come up, hasn't been up since 08 and primary and secondary Irish regions came up last year!
As for brazil(india in your case) secondary activities in has never come up for it since the course has been changed, so study that, and it'd be good to know the others
developent of dublin/sao paulo(or whatever you did for india/usa) is good to know too, but not paris it came up last year!

PictureFrame

siobhan93 wrote: »

Really not good at taking evidence from the map and writing about it but i know i'll have to know this for historic/ types of settlement etc.
Anyways, i was just doing historic settlement and dont have a clue what im supposed to learn?
Ive learned the year and what type of settlers they were but how are you guys learning the 3 srps of discussion? Are you learning them off or are you just gonna make them up on the day?

I always say the dates that they could've settled there if that makes sense?

Like Early Christian Settlement- 400-1500 AD
Stone Age-4000 BC
Iron Age- 600 BC

I think they count as SRP's, not sure though!

David1994

PictureFrame wrote: »

I always say the dates that they could've settled there if that makes sense?

Like Early Christian Settlement- 400-1500 AD
Stone Age-4000 BC
Iron Age- 600 BC

I think they count as SRP's, not sure though!

I am almost positive they count as SRPS. I cannot see why they wouldn't as it is a statistic.

fizzyorange

treely wrote: »

Is everyone just learning all of the primary, secondary and tertiary essays for each of Dublin, West, Paris, Mezzogiorno and India/USA, or are you cutting off a few? I dont know which ones to do, or whether to just learn them all. I know that contrast of Mezzogiorno and Paris may come up, but what else are 'must-knows'?

I'm only doing:

-Tertiary in Ireland
-Primary and Secondary in Paris
-Primary and Secondary in Mezz
-Tertiary in India
-Culture in India
-Growth of an urban centre in India
-Two implications of EU expansion


And hoping for the best. :P

Mysteriouschic

On regional if it asks for economic development of a regional isit asking for the secondary activities?

Incompetent

Any way to check short answers when they're not on e-xamit?

I don't want to have to trawl through the book that many times

David1994

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

On regional if it asks for economic development of a regional isit asking for the secondary activities?

Yeah normally manufacturing and stuff is economic so I would discuss secondary activities.

Geo10

Omg at the people writing 2/3 pages for 30 markers and still having time left! I must be the slowest writer ever. I can only do a page and a quarter in 15 minutes. I got caught for time in Xmas and mock. I'm so worried about time! I write as fast as I can but it happens to me in every exam !:(
In my mock for 1 30 marker I only wrote 3/4 page and I got full marks (our teacher personally knows the examiner and she's an experienced corrector so it's not wrongly marked). So maybe I should stick to writing that much and I won't get stuck for time??

bobjimmy

Geo10 wrote: »

Omg at the people writing 2/3 pages for 30 markers and still having time left! I must be the slowest writer ever. I can only do a page and a quarter in 15 minutes. I got caught for time in Xmas and mock. I'm so worried about time! I write as fast as I can but it happens to me in every exam !:(
In my mock for 1 30 marker I only wrote 3/4 page and I got full marks (our teacher personally knows the examiner and she's an experienced corrector so it's not wrongly marked). So maybe I should stick to writing that much and I won't get stuck for time??

Definitely stay with that. Most of my answers range between 3/4 of a page to 1 and 1/4 pages and i rarely get below 26 in my essays.

Also say if im writing an answer on human interaction on a soil can one of my headings be soil conservation.

siobhan93

Patchy~ wrote: »

Yesssss it so has to! Depressions came up in 06,08,10 and deserts in 07,09,11, it HAS to I'll actually be devastated if it doesnt...and anticyclones came up in 08 and not 06 or 10 so it'd make sense this year but I prepared an answer without them just in case :P

Eeeeeeemmmmmm I did ages ago, I started one like, but never finished it so I cant learn it haha. Its just regional though, literally the headings are agriculture, tourism andddd I think desertification comes in somewhere :L

Oops just read that there!! Sorry i phrased that wrong ment to ask have you done any essays on climate change or global warming for that section??

Ughh im praying for mid-latitude depressions now!!

siobhan93

Also, is anyone able to explain the central place theory simply?

I find it to be a complete load of jibberish :L But i think it will definitely come up this year!

Canard

siobhan93 wrote: »

Oops just read that there!! Sorry i phrased that wrong ment to ask have you done any essays on climate change or global warming for that section??

Ughh im praying for mid-latitude depressions now!!

Oh yeah kind of, we did "characteristics of climate change over time - discuss" and its all like the milankovich theories but I'm not learning it Global warming might come up and it also comes up in global interdependence! Its just like causes, consequences, solutions

Lol same you dont even understand how badly I need it, I'll get 30/80 at best if it doesnt come up :S

Wesc.

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So yeah if I were ye I'd definitely try it out, it really helps

PictureFrame

siobhan93 wrote: »

Also, is anyone able to explain the central place theory simply?

I find it to be a complete load of jibberish :L But i think it will definitely come up this year!

Yeah I agree, it hasn't been asked since 2008 (as in explain the theory) so here's a crash course on Central place!

Well a Central Place is an area that provides goods and services for its surrounding area (its hinterland) *so basically it's a town or commercial area

Walter Christaller devised this theory to try and explain why there are few towns and why they're spread apart from eachother.

1. Threshold Population

So basically the first thing you talk about is threshold population, that's a fancy way to say:

'the number of people required to purchase a good or use a service for the shop or whatever to stay in business'

Services like Hospitals have a large threshold population as they require a lot of people to use their service for it to be economically viable for them to remain open. Places like small village shop only require a small threshold population to remain open as they only need a small amount of customers to demand their goods for to be financially viable for them to remain open.

Range
This is simply the distance people are willing to travel to purchase a good or use a service. For example, Croke Park has a large range as people from all over the country travel to use its service (watch sport). Whilst a Local DVD Shop has a small range as only local people would travel to use its services.

Rank Order
This is basically what type of good is it that is being demanded. If the good is bought often, it has a low rank order as it is probably cheap and not difficult to purchase (like a newspaper) whereas something like a car is a high order good as it is expensive to purchase and not purchased often

Frequency of Demand

• Low order goods (ones bought often) e.g. newspapers have a HIGH frequency of Demand as they are highly/oftenly demanded.
• High order goods (bought sparingly) like cars have a LOW frequency of demand as they are not bought often

That's basically all you have to discuss with regards Central Place theory! You can stick in Criticisms of the theory if you want. They include:

• Christaller simplifies the land into a region that is FLAT and FEATURELESS. Which is more often than not the case. Many areas are divided by relief features such as mountains or rivers etc.
• Central place will occur if 'there is an equal distribution of people in a flat and featureless landscape with equal wealth and access to transport services'. This is also unrealistic as places have varying population densities because of climate/relief (think the Himalayas)
• And finally, Christaller does not take into account that some shoppers have preference where shops are concerned and do not care about the distance they have to travel to purchase the good or use the service

There you go, hope it helps! Was good revision for me too (thought i'd forgotten it!)

Hayezer

Wesc. wrote: »

Guys, if ye want to write faster, I would strongly suggest using the papermate comfortmate pen. It's unbelievable! Not only does it make my writing about 10% faster, but an awful lot neater too! My hand doesn't seem to get too sore either. I'm after writing my 3 page option in 19-20 minutes like :P
So yeah if I were ye I'd definitely try it out, it really helps

http://papermate.com/Pages/products.aspx WHICH ONE!!

Sunny!!

Wesc. wrote: »

Guys, if ye want to write faster, I would strongly suggest using the papermate comfortmate pen. It's unbelievable! Not only does it make my writing about 10% faster, but an awful lot neater too! My hand doesn't seem to get too sore either. I'm after writing my 3 page option in 19-20 minutes like :P
So yeah if I were ye I'd definitely try it out, it really helps

where you buy them? Anything to make me faster in geog the timings not great!

Wesc.

Hayezer wrote: »

http://papermate.com/Pages/products.aspx WHICH ONE!!

Papermate comfortmate ultra That said I'd say all those pens are pretty good :P

Sunny!! wrote: »

where you buy them? Anything to make me faster in geog the timings not great!

I got mine in Easons in Galway.. they have a huge stack of pens so I was bound to find them there :P But if you look at the link above you'd be able to find them there!

Sunny!!

Wesc. wrote: »

Papermate comfortmate ultra That said I'd say all those pens are pretty good :P



I got mine in Easons in Galway.. they have a huge stack of pens so I was bound to find them there :P But if you look at the link above you'd be able to find them there!

thank you! Might be good for english because i have the worst handwriting in the world:P

PictureFrame

Wesc. wrote: »

Papermate comfortmate ultra That said I'd say all those pens are pretty good :P



I got mine in Easons in Galway.. they have a huge stack of pens so I was bound to find them there :P But if you look at the link above you'd be able to find them there!

Wes- are they inky pens? I'm a lefty and any inky pens makes me drag the ink all over the page and on my hand- not good! I'd say i'd get them in Easons in Longford! 'HON LONGFORD..

Wesc.

PictureFrame wrote: »

Wes- are they inky pens? I'm a lefty and any inky pens makes me drag the ink all over the page and on my hand- not good! I'd say i'd get them in Easons in Longford! 'HON LONGFORD..

No they're not inky at all:)

fizzyorange

Oh god guys, I'm panicking.

There is no chance any one has notes already typed up on the following topics?

-East of Ireland, tertiary activities
-Paris Basin, primary and secondary activities
-Mezzogiorno, primary and secondary activities

I just can't find my notes on them anywhere and that's like five out of the twelve essays I'm studying for the exam.

Edit: I meant there for the regional part of the exam. If I was only learning 12 essays I'd have a lot more to worry about. :rolleyes:

Sunny!!

what do people think of this for physical?
- igneous
- metamorphic
- sedimentary
- dams
- quarrying
- ox-bow lake
- v-shaped valley
- measurements and effects of earthquakes
- Karst landscape
- isostatic change

bobjimmy

fizzyorange wrote: »

Oh god guys, I'm panicking.

There is no chance any one has notes already typed up on the following topics?

-East of Ireland, tertiary activities
-Paris Basin, primary and secondary activities
-Mezzogiorno, primary and secondary activities

I just can't find my notes on them anywhere and that's like five out of the twelve essays I'm studying for the exam.

Edit: I meant there for the regional part of the exam. If I was only learning 12 essays I'd have a lot more to worry about. :rolleyes:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056138128

Wesc.

Sunny!! wrote: »

what do people think of this for physical?
- igneous
- metamorphic
- sedimentary
- dams
- quarrying
- ox-bow lake
- v-shaped valley
- measurements and effects of earthquakes
- Karst landscape
- isostatic change
-How plate tectonics help us understand the global distrinution of earthquakes

Igneous came up last year.

Why is V-Shaped valley even on that list? Afaik you only need to know one landform.

Sunny!!

Wesc. wrote: »

Igneous came up last year.

Why is V-Shaped valley even on that list? Afaik you only need to know one landform.

I seen in a sample paper somewhere they could ask for two landforms?

Could they not just put up igneous again?

Dont like plate tectonics tbh:)

Canard

If they asked for 2 landforms couldnt you split your ox-bow lake up? :P

Earthquakes are quite topical atm and havent been up in a while, it'd be a good idea to learn them. Its unlikely they'll re-ask igneous too.

fizzyorange

bobjimmy wrote: »

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rkeano5

PictureFrame wrote: »

Wes- are they inky pens? I'm a lefty and any inky pens makes me drag the ink all over the page and on my hand- not good! I'd say i'd get them in Easons in Longford! 'HON LONGFORD..

I feel your pain. Smudging ink has been the bane of many an exam for me, one of the few downsides of being sinister....

Sunny!!

Patchy~ wrote: »

If they asked for 2 landforms couldnt you split your ox-bow lake up? :P

Earthquakes are quite topical atm and havent been up in a while, it'd be a good idea to learn them. Its unlikely they'll re-ask igneous too.

do they not ever throw in tricks in geography? or can you just rely on predictions?

Canard

Well of course they do - I actually misread the exam papers and I've learned igneous, but I hadnt planned to. You can always avoid a trick, and they havent done it in the past rrreeeeally. You can never rely on predictions but geography is pretty easy to predict :L

Sunny!!

Patchy~ wrote: »

Well of course they do - I actually misread the exam papers and I've learned igneous, but I hadnt planned to. You can always avoid a trick, and they havent done it in the past rrreeeeally. You can never rely on predictions but geography is pretty easy to predict :L

See question 1 is a write off because of plate tectonics so its 2/3 so ive to cover most things.

Canard

Well technically tectonics could come up in all 3, on their own, with volcanoes, with EQs or with fold mountains. It'd be a good idea to learn them tbh, they're useful and its JC stuff really.

Sunny!!

Patchy~ wrote: »

Well technically tectonics could come up in all 3, on their own, with volcanoes, with EQs or with fold mountains. It'd be a good idea to learn them tbh, they're useful and its JC stuff really.

never happened before would want to be very unlucky :L but i would be able to write a couple of srps if they came up so it wouldnt be disastrous

Mysteriouschic

I keep forgetting to study isostatic change but it came up last year so maybe it won't come up again.
I have rocks, rivers , earthquakes , plate tectonics , volcanoes sections done just going over them then need to go over the karst.

I have most of regional to learn and practice drawing the maps . Then learn most of the human. I have quite a lot of geography to do. I have 2 geoecology essays done.

I think I can get it all done I do know most of it already it's just remembering it in greater detail.

deathbythelc

I haaaaaaaaaaate Isostatic Processes. Hate it. Hate.

Mysteriouschic

My teacher last year skipped isostatic processes and said it won't come up and it came up :rolleyes: . I think I have a sample answer on it going to learn it tomorrow.

Geo10

What I think us likely in physical:
•The Standard ones (landform, human interaction with rock cycle & surface processes)... Although they're trying to reduce predictability and they always ask these so they might not put them on this year!!
• 2 VOLCANIC LANDFORMS
• LANDFORMS OF FOLDING & FAULTING
• ROCK TYPE & DISTINCTIVE LANDSCAPE or FORMATION OF SEDIMENTARY
• HOW PLATE TECTONICS HELPS US UNDERSTAND OCCURENCE OF EARTHQUAKES

deathbythelc

Geo10 wrote: »

What I think us likely in physical:
•The Standard ones (landform, human interaction with rock cycle & surface processes)... Although they're trying to reduce predictability and they always ask these so they might not put them on this year!!
• 2 VOLCANIC LANDFORMS
• LANDFORMS OF FOLDING & FAULTING
• ROCK TYPE & DISTINCTIVE LANDSCAPE or FORMATION OF SEDIMENTARY
• HOW PLATE TECTONICS HELPS US UNDERSTAND OCCURENCE OF EARTHQUAKES

I feel like you're shouting Geography at me.

Munster07

We've had a pretty pathetic geography teacher! Our notes are all over the place etc..anybody have any tips for learning the whole geography course in less than a week? ..and please don't say "Getting off boards would be a start! :P "

AnnaKin

Geo10 wrote: »

What I think us likely in physical:
•The Standard ones (landform, human interaction with rock cycle & surface processes)... Although they're trying to reduce predictability and they always ask these so they might not put them on this year!!

Please dont say that. I'm DEPENDING ON THEM!!!:eek:

Incompetent

Geo10 wrote: »

What I think us likely in physical:
•The Standard ones (landform, human interaction with rock cycle & surface processes)

Landform is a waterfall yeah?

David1994

Incompetent wrote: »

Landform is a waterfall yeah?

Yes.

SuchGold

I'm not really sure what answer to give for this question:
2010 biome question:
Examine the influence of climate on the characteristics of one biome that you that have
studied.

Do you talk about how the flora and fauna adapt to the climate by changing their behaviour, bodily functions etc??

David1994

SuchGold wrote: »

I'm not really sure what answer to give for this question:
2010 biome question:
Examine the influence of climate on the characteristics of one biome that you that have
studied.

Do you talk about how the flora and fauna adapt to the climate by changing their behaviour, bodily functions etc??

Yes but also discuss how soil adapts to the climate aswell.That way you have more to talk about. Also make sure you stick to the influence climate has and don't just talk about the characteristics of a biome

Mysteriouschic

Anyone else just learning the essays for geoecology thats in the Exam Skills?
I've learnt two so far . I do occasionally change the wording of some lines in it. I didn't write one myself as I had no teacher to correct it and he hadn't even started that section yet .

Hayezer

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

Anyone else just learning the essays for geoecology thats in the Exam Skills?
I've learnt two so far . I do occasionally change the wording of some lines in it. I didn't write one myself as I had no teacher to correct it and he hadn't even started that section yet .

I'm using Exam Skills but I haven't learned 1 word for word, I take bullet points of the main points on flash cards and I'm hoping the bits in between come to me on the day

clairey__Ox

Hey guys, so for geoecology I'm basically relying on the Exam Skills book (blame an awful teacher and my naivety) and I'm doing a desert region. Seeing as human/economic interaction came up last year will I be okay skipping it for the biome? As the sample answer is on Rainforests and I'll probably end up getting confused
I've covered the rests of soil & biome pretty well, but am I mad to leave it out?

Darren.993

Just wondering, how would you identity a waterfall on an OS Map? I know a lot of the time they ask the landform development question with the OS Map, and our teacher said you could argue that a waterfall is on there, even if it isn't.

CiaranK

Darren.993 wrote: »

Just wondering, how would you identity a waterfall on an OS Map? I know a lot of the time they ask the landform development question with the OS Map, and our teacher said you could argue that a waterfall is on there, even if it isn't.

It will actually have waterfall written in if there is one there.

Andy-Pandy

Darren.993 wrote: »

Just wondering, how would you identity a waterfall on an OS Map? I know a lot of the time they ask the landform development question with the OS Map, and our teacher said you could argue that a waterfall is on there, even if it isn't.

You would also notice the contour lines bunched up together with a river flowing down the middle