Geography Predictions 2012

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Cause I just to make and procrastinate, what do you think will be on the Geography paper this year- i'm only going to do physical/regional as the other sections depend on what section you're doing personally and I don't know the other option/elective questions:

And also if you want to leave your predictions for the Elective/Option Question, post them here but make sure you label which one you're discussing so we don't get all confusedballs! Thanks

David1994

I have a feeling that "Formation of a rock type and how it produces a landform"
will pop up :P It came up in 2008 and I think it is due up!
Also sedimentary rocks hopefully will appear.Havent a clue what will appear on Regional as there is so much...

Scarlett Scout

David1994 wrote: »

I have a feeling that "Formation of a rock type and how it produces a landform"
will pop up :P It came up in 2008 and I think it is due up!
Also sedimentary rocks hopefully will appear.Havent a clue what will appear on Regional as there is so much...

Sedimentary and formation of a landform there will hardly be both on:pac:

Mysteriouschic

I think historic settlements and overpopulation usually comes up most years.
I've seen the historic settlements in nearly all papers. In the human elective .
I'm not sure if isostatic processes will come up they rarely do until last year it showed up on my paper. I really don't think it'll come up again
Landforms, human interaction with rocks, rock type , human impact on marine/fluvial/glacial (I think thats the question) , earthquake question a B/C part.

Canard

Is it often that they dont ask human interaction with coastal processes in that marine/mass movement q? I find it much handier but one year they didnt allow for it, and my teacher insists on doing dams instead of the Rhine river...so yeah, dont like the idea of having to write about those

Mysteriouschic

Patchy~ wrote: »

Is it often that they dont ask human interaction with coastal processes in that marine/mass movement q? I find it much handier but one year they didnt allow for it, and my teacher insists on doing dams instead of the Rhine river...so yeah, dont like the idea of having to write about those

I'm doing the river Rhine myself. Last year thats what my teacher did. I don't think my teacher went through the river rhine this year or what he did.
I think it's fine to write about the river Rhine thats what my last teacher last year did with us. Everyone will be doing a different answer so there will be people doing the river Rhine and others doing the coastal or the other one.

Canard

Yeah but my teacher's really weird and obsessed with headings, he gave me 6/30 in my mock for trying to do the Rhine even though it deserved more so I'm too afraid to chance it But the thing is one year they didnt give coastal processes as an option I guess I'll learn both a bit and see how it goes

Mysteriouschic

Patchy~ wrote: »

Yeah but my teacher's really weird and obsessed with headings, he gave me 6/30 in my mock for trying to do the Rhine even though it deserved more so I'm too afraid to chance it But the thing is one year they didnt give coastal processes as an option I guess I'll learn both a bit and see how it goes

I think there's a dam sample answer in the Sue Honan book. or there's a sample answer on e-xamit. http://www.e-xamit.ie/tutorial.php?id=16294&prep=16291&soln=16294&tip=16297&port=16404

You could learn one of them off if you didn't want to take the risk.

Spattersonox

my predictions for physical:
human interference with fluvial etc
human interference with rocks
irish landscape feature
karst/sedimentary (sed is due up)
earthquakes
then maybe folding and faulting?

regional:
culture
secondary activities sub continental
urban growth sub continental
tertiary ireland
contrasting between a specific activity in europe?

all complete guess work based on what hasn't come up recently and what likes to come up!

Canard

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

I think there's a dam sample answer in the Sue Honan book. or there's a sample answer on e-xamit. http://www.e-xamit.ie/tutorial.php?id=16294&prep=16291&soln=16294&tip=16297&port=16404

You could learn one of them off if you didn't want to take the risk.

Haha I dont trust examit at all, they're soooooooo bad, look at the option questions for example - not a single one is done remotely right :eek:

But I'll look in the sue honan book, i forgot all about that, thank you!

skanger

For earthquakes do they ask for specifics? like a case study or is it just a tectonic question?

Spattersonox

skanger wrote: »

For earthquakes do they ask for specifics? like a case study or is it just a tectonic question?

they could ask how to predict and record.. with reference to examples.
So no matter what - KNOW A CASE STUDY

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skanger wrote: »

For earthquakes do they ask for specifics? like a case study or is it just a tectonic question?

They could. I've learnt stuff about the Pakistan Earthquake in 2005 (8 October to be exact) and the Mexico City Earthquake on the 15 September 1985! Measuring 7.6 and 8.1 on the Richter scale respectively! :P

Mysteriouschic

Patchy~ wrote: »

Haha I dont trust examit at all, they're soooooooo bad, look at the option questions for example - not a single one is done remotely right :eek:

But I'll look in the sue honan book, i forgot all about that, thank you!

I haven't looked at them . I just googled one of them now the answers for them seem quite short. I'm pretty sure Egypt is in that exam skills book about the River Nile .

Astrozombies

regional geography is so long I just know it's going to catch me out! I'm terrible with the BMW and GDA, and I dont even wanna think EU enlargements on ireland
But yeah sedimentary's defo due up, mass movement, and I'd say they're gonna throw in contrasting the mezzogiorno and PB

AnnaKin

Used to think Regional was easy, but after studying aa lot of the course yesterday I think its where I'll fall down

but still, In the Geoecology section A biome Q or a Brown Soils Q better come up! Otherwise I'm royally screwed!

Scarlett Scout

For geoecology would this be enough?
Biome 4 characteristics
climate impact on the biome

Soils factors
characteristics
Brown Earths (with a little on latozols)