Higher
Geography
Module
5.1 – Population Geography
Population changes and structures very spatially and over time. Reasons
for changes are complex and involve human and environmental factors.
Module
5.2 – Rural Geography
Three types of farming; shifting cultivation, extensive commercial
farming and intensive peasant farming.
Module
5.3 – Industrial Geography
Location factors; types of industry; old and new industrial landscapes;
growth, decline and re-growth of an industrial area in both UK and
Europe
Module
5.4 – Urban Geography
Site and situation; growth of settlements; functions of cities; urban
zones and changes to the city; green belt land
Module
5.5 – Management of Urban Change
Urbanisation in the developing world; push-pull factors in the growth
of cities; case studies – problems of growth
Module
5.6 – Developing Health
Differences between developing countries; the spread of disease; control
methods and effectiveness; case studies and primary health care
Module
5.7 – Atmosphere
Energy change in the earth’s atmosphere, variations; ocean and
atmosphere circulations. Greenhouse effects and problems of pollution
Module
5.8 – Hydrosphere
Hydrological cycle , hydrographs, river landscapes – river problems
and solutions
Module
5.9 – Lithoshere
Weathering and erosion; mass movement; glaciation; limestone;work
of the sea;farming and settlement the effects on.
Module
5.10– Rural Land Resource
Managing the countryside; National Parks – problems and solutions;
case studies of national parks.
Module
5.11– Biosphere
Soils, plant, succession, sand dune vegetation and the ecosystem
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