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Bits of geography information you remember from primary scho

  • 25-01-2015 9:02pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭


    The Barrow, the Nore, and the Suir


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    Don't follow the geography teacher into the storage room alone....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Bandon
    Lee
    Blackwater


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    In my day we were taught that the highest mountain in Europe was Mont Blanc. Not anymore apparently.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,118 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    I can draw the life cycle of the ox bow lake perfectly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Ox-bow lakes FTW.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    The Barrow, the Nore and the Suir.

    Mountain ranges, I believe.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,795 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    The CCCP is the world's largest country.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    Every single county in Ireland. I find it baffling now when anyone else can't name all 32 within a few minutes. We just learned them off and I always assumed everyone else did too. Amazing the amount of people who get to about 25 and struggle after that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 187 ✭✭coolabula


    All the counties of Ireland, can still sing them in the order we learned them


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 187 ✭✭coolabula


    Duplicate


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    America and the UK are far away from each other.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    Ox-bow lakes, interlocking spurs and glaciers. I could draw those badboys likes a pro.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭conorh91


    The McGillycuddy reeks cause heavy local precipitation in an area of land called its "rain shadow". Basically, incoming clouds from south-westerly winds precipitate in the 'shadow' of the mountain range, whilst the dry air advances across Munster

    On associated McGillycuddy Reeks news, there is a man called "The McGillycuddy of the Reeks". He is an Irish chieftan, or 'Tanasite', who can trace his ancestry directly back to the Celtic Kings of Munster during the time of Our Lord.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Global warming is a load of cock.

    Fifth year Hons Geography.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Manach wrote: »
    The CCCP is the world's largest country.


    Bastards broke up


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭Redhenrun


    Ireland is like a saucer-flat in the centre and mountains around the coast.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Arsemageddon


    The sum of the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the square of the other two sides.....



    ........I used to do my maths homework in geography.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,513 ✭✭✭✭Lucyfur


    Stalactite hangs down.

    Stalagmite grows up.

    And sedimentary rocks. I don't remember anything about them. Just the name.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,385 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Back when I was in primary school acid rain was all the rage.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Geography was easy until the Soviet Union broke up.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,385 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Lucyfur wrote: »

    And sedimentary rocks. I don't remember anything about them. Just the name.

    The name says it all!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Asarlai


    Thurles is a marketing town, as is Cashel and the smaller town of Roscrea.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ennis Kilrush Kilaloe Kilkee.


    Aeolian Geomorphology.

    Lateral Moraine.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭The Peanut


    Laois. Only county in Ireland that borders counties that don't touch the sea.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    I still say Bombay, Burma, Taiwan and I ain't changing :cool:

    I've adapted to Beijing but that was Peking when I was a young 'un. You don't order Beijing duck, do you, do you??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    Corrie lakes. Birthplaces of glaciers. Still marvel at them when hill walking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Sil-leagan and Creimeadh na hAbhann.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Asarlai


    Ennis Kilrush Kilaloe Kilkee.

    Good one. Remember that. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    The physical features of Ireland resemble a castle ie mountain ranges near the coast surrounding a flat central plain.
    A few days after learning this the teacher asked me what did Ireland resemble.
    I answered him with my own opinion whenever I see Ireland on a map-
    A Teddy Bear!
    The class was in stitches.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Whatever happened the ozone layer anyway? Is it solved? :confused:

    We were told fridges and spray cans like deodorant causing it huge harm and we all had to get CFC-free


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭allthedoyles


    We used to follow the Irish Ships around the world .

    Irish Shipping was a Irish-government owned shipping company and they had about 20 deep-sea ships , all named after trees :

    Irish Cedar
    Irish Larch
    Irish Spruce
    Irish Elm etc

    that was in 5th / 6th class


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Asarlai


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Whatever happened the ozone layer anyway? Is it solved? :confused:

    Overheard on Killiney beach during a sunnier-than-normal summer sometime in the 1990's

    "Sure, they should have poked that hole in the ozone layer years ago."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 532 ✭✭✭Arbitrary


    Don't follow the geography teacher's advice to sit ordinary level

    In my case. Though I can understand why he recommended it, I'm pretty sure I still hold the record for the most days missed in a year in the history of the school. Poll a' Phúca you!


    Erosion is killer, the perpetual war of attrition between earth, rock, sea and wind still rages on today.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Glaciation.....

    U-shaped and hanging valleys
    Truncated spurs
    Eskers
    Moraines
    Paternoster lakes
    cooms
    Boulder clay
    Glacial polish

    ........and fvckin' Drumlins - because they're bast@rds to cycle up!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    Vertical erosion


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Asarlai


    Antrim
    Armagh
    Derry
    Down
    Tyrone

    Why do I remember these five, but I can't figure out where Fermanagh fits into this?

    Or does it.....?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Lucyfur wrote: »
    Stalactite hangs down.

    Stalagmite grows up.

    And sedimentary rocks. I don't remember anything about them. Just the name.

    There was a saying to remember which was which, can't remember it now, something about stalagmites might touch etc etc

    We learned the county registration plates when the new system came in, the was probably geography class


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,027 ✭✭✭Dr Turk Turkelton


    Lucyfur wrote: »
    Stalactite hangs down.

    Stalagmite grows up.

    And sedimentary rocks. I don't remember anything about them. Just the name.

    Tights always come down...(stalactites)
    Taught by a priest!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    I think a lot of people here are recalling what they learned in secondary school geography and not primary school.

    Although funnily enough, there is little cross-over between the two which I think is a shame. There is nowhere near enough locational geography in secondary school. Students leave with A1s in Geography but haven't a clue where many countries even are. Way too much emphasis on physical geography (plate tectonics, weather systems etc).

    I much prefer cultural and economic geography and the sociology that surrounds them. And I think that information is far more useful in life than how a glacier erodes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭The Peanut


    All the counties off by heart. The major towns in each county. All the rivers. All the mountains. All the lakes. Used to know the 32 counties off by heart from biggest to smallest. Still amazed when people can't name counties or, worse still, recognise them on a map.

    It was drilled into us.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 665 ✭✭✭Aubrey loves Joe


    Double d is not only a cup size. It also stands for drowned drumlins


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    Asarlai wrote: »
    Antrim
    Armagh
    Derry
    Down
    Tyrone

    Why do I remember these five, but I can't figure out where Fermanagh fits into this?

    Or does it.....?

    Yeah it does. "FAT DAD" is what people use to remember the 6 counties not in the Republic.

    Fermanagh Armagh Tyrone Derry Antrim Down


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    Senna wrote: »
    There was a saying to remember which was which, can't remember it now, something about stalagmites might touch etc etc
    Tights always come down...(stalactites)
    Taught by a priest!

    Stalagmites came up from the ground
    Stalactites came down from the ceiling


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Asarlai wrote: »
    The Barrow, the Nore, and the Suir

    Pffft

    They don't compare to the Suck, the Inney and the Brosna


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Asarlai


    The river Shannon starts in Cavan and flows into the sea at Limerick.

    Except the word 'start' wasn't the word used


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,764 ✭✭✭cml387


    Thurles,Mallow,Tuam and Carlow have what in common?

    I also noticed an odd feature of geography teaching in school from years ago.
    Many scholars could identify the capitals of remote South American countries and name those countries export and know their climate. But wouldn't have a clue where Coventry, Leicester or Nothampton were


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    Asarlai wrote: »
    The river Shannon starts in Cavan and flows into the sea at Limerick.

    Except the word 'start' wasn't the word used

    It rises in Cavan.


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    Lucyfur wrote: »
    Stalactite hangs down.

    Stalagmite grows up.

    And sedimentary rocks. I don't remember anything about them. Just the name.

    Our geography teacher gave us the following memory aid as 12/13 year olds:

    "When the mites go up, the tites come down."

    He meant 'mites' as in hands, and 'tites' as in pantyhose.

    It was a useful memory aid, but cemented his reputation in my book as a creepy bastard.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    cml387 wrote: »
    Thurles,Mallow,Tuam and Carlow have what in common?

    Sugar Beet!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    cml387 wrote: »
    Thurles,Mallow,Tuam and Carlow have what in common?

    *raises hand*

    Sugar beet factories

    Gone now though :(

    beaten to it, damn you baggy trousers!!


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