Geography essays MEGATHREAD!!

guitarzero

If theres one thing I remember vividly all those years ago was, for geography, just keep writing, even if you dont have info, make **** up that they wont even bother checking, this is where I think I got a higher B from, just write write write.

Cruel Sun

guitarzero wrote: »

If theres one thing I remember vividly all those years ago was, for geography, just keep writing, even if you dont have info, make **** up that they wont even bother checking, this is where I think I got a higher B from, just write write write.

"The Mezzogiorno is a cannibalistic island off the west coast of Peru."

Examiner: Meh, sounds right, 1 SRP.

Fergus_

I think there will be a bit of focus on Sub-Continental regions as there wasn't really much last year, so it could be worth looking into those.

Mysteriouschic

I'm the least prepared for the human elective. We didn't cover it in class , luckily I did in my old school but I've just been focusing on sample answers I have . There's about 15 essays I need to learn off by Friday.

treely

I reckon I should be ok with these for geocology, what do you think?

Human influence on biome
Flora and fauna adaptations to climate in biome
Human activities on soils


Humans always seem to come up, and at least one biome always comes up. Hopefully that should do.

Wesc.

MartieG wrote: »

Hey,

Right, I'm panicking about Regional Geog...What the hell should I learn, I'm down to the bare minimum.

I think

Irish - Tertary activities
Eu/Regional - Primary
Sub - Secondary


What's you's all predict ?

I sent you a PM

treely

Wesc. wrote: »

I sent you a PM

Send me a pm?:)

Geo10

I hate the human questions in physical and geoecology! Ugh... why do humans have to exist??

Nitsuj

How much should I write for a biome question?

Heatproof

Guys what is the difference between "Describe how plant and animal life adapt to soil and climatic conditions in a biome which you have studied" and just the simple "characteristics of a biome". I've looked at the marking schemes and they are very identical. Could one get away with putting one in place of the other and just manipulate it ever so slightly ?

Sunny!!

is this the way the srp works?

Example
Plant Adaptations to climate

An adaptation is the way which an organism evolves overtime to develop certain features to be able to survive in there environment(1srp). Many animals in the tropical rainforest have developed camouflage for example, these adaptions are carried on genetically so the daughter can survive (1srp)
The climate of the rainforest is average 27c, the humidity is high (88%), and the average rainfall is 6600mm per year(1srp)

Is that the way it is marked??

any replies thanks in advance:)

Sunny!!

Heatproof wrote: »

Guys what is the difference between "Describe how plant and animal life adapt to soil and climatic conditions in a biome which you have studied" and just the simple "characteristics of a biome". I've looked at the marking schemes and they are very identical. Could one get away with putting one in place of the other and just manipulate it ever so slightly ?

my teacher just said there the exact same except you keep saying words like adapted and keep referring to the climate in the first question, but you just write everything you know for characteristics. You just adapt your knowledge to the question:)

Heatproof

Sunny!! wrote: »

my teacher just said there the exact same except you keep saying words like adapted and keep referring to the climate in the first question, but you just write everything you know for characteristics. You just adapt your knowledge to the question:)

Thanks

treely

About to get stuck into regional. Any point in learning off primary, secondary an tertiary for each of Dublin, West, Mezzo, Paris and India? Surely not? What did all you learn?

Sunny!!

treely wrote: »

About to get stuck into regional. Any point in learning off primary, secondary an tertiary for each of Dublin, West, Mezzo, Paris and India? Surely not? What did all you learn?

I left out the bmw and mezzo, because i dont think contrasting will come up the the 3 questions and if it does just waffle if you can

I've done
- gda pri
- gda ter
- paris pri,sec,ter
- india pri,sec,ter
- 3 cultural regions
- urban, mumbai and dublin

David1994

Sunny!! wrote: »

is this the way the srp works?

Example
Plant Adaptations to climate

An adaptation is the way which an organism evolves overtime to develop certain features to be able to survive in there environment(1srp). Many animals in the tropical rainforest have developed camouflage for example, these adaptions are carried on genetically so the daughter can survive (1srp)
The climate of the rainforest is average 27c, the humidity is high (88%), and the average rainfall is 6600mm per year(1srp)

Is that the way it is marked??

any replies thanks in advance:)

Yep thats how SRPs work.If you state something try and explain why this happens or and effect of it for an SRP

siobhan93

Ugh just realised i havent looked at the short Q's in ages and i know they're easy but sometimes they can be really hard.. just wondering whats the main things to revise for them??

Annnnnnd whats the chance of underground features coming up for karst landscape? I literally can't remember the answer and ive gone over it so many times!!

Sunny!!

siobhan93 wrote: »

Ugh just realised i havent looked at the short Q's in ages and i know they're easy but sometimes they can be really hard.. just wondering whats the main things to revise for them??

Annnnnnd whats the chance of underground features coming up for karst landscape? I literally can't remember the answer and ive gone over it so many times!!

ive left it out can only remember the diagram for it, but theres loads of choice on the paper you should be ok:)

aoife93

Im having trouble with the biome qs... how do you tie in the "influence of climate" on animals in the tropical rainforest biome?? Also what are the 3/4 aspects for the adaptions of plants and animals in the TR biome??

Geographyhater

If all ive learnt for biome is characteristics i can use this for how climate has effected a biome?

Cruel Sun

Geographyhater wrote: »

If all ive learnt for biome is characteristics i can use this for how climate has effected a biome?

I still laugh every time I see that name, and your posts are always about geography.

fizzyorange

Lads, I just wrote out the last geography essay I need. Now all I have to do is read over my notes in the days before the exam and that is all I'm doing.

I'm so happy it's unreal.

Geographyhater

Martin_94 wrote: »

Geographyhater wrote: »

If all ive learnt for biome is characteristics i can use this for how climate has effected a biome?

I still laugh every time I see that name, and your posts are always about geography.

Its the only subject i hate so boring!! Oh and ordinary irish terrible subjects lol

Astrozombies

What geo-ecology essays are people doing?
For me, think Ill learn of animal+plant adaptions to a biome, human activities with soils, and the processes that form brown earth soils.
anything else recommended?

CiaranK

Astrozombies wrote: »

What geo-ecology essays are people doing?
For me, think Ill learn of animal+plant adaptions to a biome, human activities with soils, and the processes that form brown earth soils.
anything else recommended?

I'm doing:

Plants/Animals adapt to Soil/Climate of a Biome
Human Interaction with Biomes
Human Interaction with Soil
Composition of Soil

Might do a Characteristics of soil to so I'll be 100% covered

CiaranK

How did you folks learn the essays. Just by reading them?

Personally I wrote them out in SRP bullet point form/Key words form taking it from the essay
Wrote it out again looking at the SRPs
Wrote it again half looking at it
Wrote it out a 4th time from memory and then it's in my head and learned.
Then later on in the day or before I do anything else the next day try write it out again. nearly every time I'll have it down by then.

Astrozombies

CiaranK wrote: »

How did you folks learn the essays. Just by reading them?

Personally I wrote them out in SRP bullet point form/Key words form taking it from the essay
Wrote it out again looking at the SRPs
Wrote it again half looking at it
Wrote it out a 4th time from memory and then it's in my head and learned.
Then later on in the day or before I do anything else the next day try write it out again. nearly every time I'll have it down by then.

sounds monotouous! o: I just write out the SRP's in bullet points, and spend 30-40 minutes learning the essay off, point by point. Then I take a break, come back and test myself by writing out the easy in full and see if i can get it done in the time allocated. Then I finally make a short flashcard of the SRP's

Mysteriouschic

CiaranK wrote: »

How did you folks learn the essays. Just by reading them?

Personally I wrote them out in SRP bullet point form/Key words form taking it from the essay
Wrote it out again looking at the SRPs
Wrote it again half looking at it
Wrote it out a 4th time from memory and then it's in my head and learned.
Then later on in the day or before I do anything else the next day try write it out again. nearly every time I'll have it down by then.

I read it then after read each line and try and remember it and recite the whole thing in my head until I get it right and then just read over it.

Aomame

I'm worrying now, our teacher didn't do soils with us! Only essays I can do are human interation with biome and plant/animal adaptations to biome. I looked through the past few years and I would have been able to answer at least one per year is this enough? Also, I don't have the time to write out all my essays again! Just been reading them.... Ever time I come on here I freak myself out.

Geo10

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

I read it then after read each line and try and remember it and recite the whole thing in my head until I get it right and then just read over it.

Same! How do people have time to write them all out? I learn it line by line too, constantly reciting what I've learned off so far in my head.. mentally testing myself!
Personally I never understood why people write out notes in any subject. I guess some people actually learn by writing out... that would be handy but time consuming!

On to another topic... Does anyone else have a feeling something along the lines of "how one urban theoretical model developed and expanded on another" will come up in human geog? (i.e. Sector model developed the concentric zone model to take into account transport routes...)

I hope human geog Qs are very theoretical e.g. Urban theories, Christaller, effects of overpopulation, migration... and not very OS MAP/ PHOTO orientated! Last years paper focused so much on OS map so hopefully this year it'll be mostly theoretical (though I don't mind historical settlement)

Mysteriouschic

Geo10 wrote: »

Same! How do people have time to write them all out? I learn it line by line too, constantly reciting what I've learned off so far in my head.. mentally testing myself!
Personally I never understood why people write out notes in any subject. I guess some people actually learn by writing out... that would be handy but time consuming!

On to another topic... Does anyone else have a feeling something along the lines of "how one urban theoretical model developed and expanded on another" will come up in human geog? (i.e. Sector model developed the concentric zone model to take into account transport routes...)

I hope human geog Qs are very theoretical e.g. Urban theories, Christaller, effects of overpopulation, migration... and not very OS MAP/ PHOTO orientated! Last years paper focused so much on OS map so hopefully this year it'll be mostly theoretical (though I don't mind historical settlement)

I don't mind human to much. I've all the answers from the srp book I did a revision course for a week and that guy was teaching there so I have the notes for that section. The answers are very long. I have them all written into shorter notes.
I really hope a historical settlement or settlements comes up. I need to look over historical on my last years notes or book though. Hopefully a good question is after it. Yeah that question about a specific model it just said one in any city on last years leaving.

I used to write them up in notes and keep writing them over again but it was getting far too time consuming. I remember last year I was just writing and I didn't remember much. Then I remember after this year before I've gone into exams I've quickly looked over something to memorise and then I usually remember it.

PictureFrame

Right. I don't know a lot of Geography, not enough for an A1 anyway which I need. I think i'll just take the Physical/Human and 2 Option essays today and make sure I know them. If I **** up the Regional, there's nothing I can do. I have to prioritise. I still have to revise 5 poets, 8 Hamlet Essays, 2 Comparative Modes, and Paper I for English. Still haven't gotten a chance to look at Maths either.. I'm actually ****ed..

David1994

PictureFrame wrote: »

Right. I don't know a lot of Geography, not enough for an A1 anyway which I need. I think i'll just take the Physical/Human and 2 Option essays today and make sure I know them. If I **** up the Regional, there's nothing I can do. I have to prioritise. I still have to revise 5 poets, 8 Hamlet Essays, 2 Comparative Modes, and Paper I for English. Still haven't gotten a chance to look at Maths either.. I'm actually ****ed..

Yeah I am going to spend 4 hours doing Geography today and an hour of Maths..Some Paper 2 and look over my essays

Mysteriouschic

Didn't the human biome and the human(economic) soils come up last year? isit safe to avoid those or possibly they'll reword the biome calling it the economic biome. The only biome which didn't come up was the plant and animals adaption to biomes. I still need to learn the human biome. I'll learn it just incase it shows up again.

Mysteriouschic

Just looking through thr sample papers. Isit just me or do the questions seem harder?

deathbythelc

In 2007 Human Interaction came up like this:

Discuss how one of the following could impact on the landscape:

• Deforestation
• Coastal management
• Flood control

If this did come up again could you talk about Biomes? As in how deforestation affects the biomes we've studied for Geoecology?

aoife..x

i think that i am only going to study the biome and leave out soils...or is that a bit too risky!! i have a feeling human interaction with the biome will be up this year?

CiaranK

deathbythelc wrote: »

In 2007 Human Interaction came up like this:

Discuss how one of the following could impact on the landscape:

• Deforestation
• Coastal management
• Flood control

If this did come up again could you talk about Biomes? As in how deforestation affects the biomes we've studied for Geoecology?

Was this in physical?

It would be hard to get a 30 marker out of just deforestation. If it was not specified as just Deforestation or just one activity. You could do Mass Movement: Overgrazing, overcropping and Deforestation in the Sahel. That would be 5srps on each.

For just the one you could do flood control and talk about the Rhine or the Mississippi River

deathbythelc

CiaranK wrote: »

Was this in physical?

It would be hard to get a 30 marker out of just deforestation. If it was not specified as just Deforestation or just one activity. You could do Mass Movement: Overgrazing, overcropping and Deforestation in the Sahel. That would be 5srps on each.

For just the one you could do flood control and talk about the Rhine or the Mississippi River

Ah, I see. Yeah, that sounds right! Thanks!

Hayezer

Would people think the animal and plant adaptations answer in Sue Honans book is full marks? In plant adaptatons to soil she seems to sorta repeat herself in the last paragraph

treely

Dont doubt Sue. She is the reason anyone gets an A1.

deathbythelc

Hayezer wrote: »

Would people think the animal and plant adaptations answer in Sue Honans book is full marks? In plant adaptatons to soil she seems to sorta repeat herself in the last paragraph

If you're worried then stick in a few SRPs from your own Geog book or something? Just in case. :P

Hayezer

Literally I'd say about 90% of the country use the book :L If I ever had to recheck Geography I'd be like "ITS FULL MARKS IN SUES BOOK, YOUR WRONG"

Mysteriouschic

Hayezer wrote: »

Would people think the animal and plant adaptations answer in Sue Honans book is full marks? In plant adaptatons to soil she seems to sorta repeat herself in the last paragraph

Thats the essay I've learnt off so hopefully it's fine. If it's in the book I assume thats the full marks.

Geo10

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

Just looking through thr sample papers. Isit just me or do the questions seem harder?

They are because they were put together by Edco before any official exam papers came out so they had not much info on the style/ type of questions going to be asked! For example "Examine the effect of the interaction of economic, political and cultural activities in Ireland" would never come up in the real thing! Nor would "examine 2 ways in which Ireland's NDP tries to achieve a sustainable type of development" or "critically examine Ireland's immigration policy"... at least I hope not!!! :eek:

Mysteriouschic

Geo10 wrote: »

They are because they were put together by Edco before any official exam papers came out so they had not much info on the style/ type of questions going to be asked! For example "Examine the effect of the interaction of economic, political and cultural activities in Ireland" would never come up in the real thing! Nor would "examine 2 ways in which Ireland's NDP tries to achieve a sustainable type of development" or "critically examine Ireland's immigration policy"... at least I hope not!!! :eek:

They also had examine two landforms for a 30 mark question . I'd have thought it'd be too long to write about the two. The regional samples were terrible. I started to think earlier maybe they're questions which are set to appear in the future. I remember last years was kind of similar to the sample with the isostatic processes question.

siobhan93

What question could they ask on mutiple nuclei theory? Its the only one out the theories that ive done!!

bobjimmy

siobhan93 wrote: »

What question could they ask on mutiple nuclei theory? Its the only one out the theories that ive done!!

Its the only one ive donne aswell.
They wont ask for a specific theory unless its the Central place theroy.
They just ask you on a settlement theory that you have studied and to relate it to an urban area you have studied.

David1994

Anyone know if they are strict on you having correct statistics? I know I will forgot some for certain answers so might try and make them up if I can

Scarlett Scout

Would these be enough for geo-ecology?

• Characteristics of a Biome
• Adaptions to Soil/Climate-Biome
• Human-Soil
• Brown Earth Soil(contrast with Latozols):D