Name of the hazard Impact on people Impact on the environment

What is Global Atmospheric Circulation? Where do you get high and low pressure?

What is Climate Change?

Natural causes of climate change

Solar variation

Volcanism

Surface impact

Milankovitch Axil tilt

Milankovitch Eccentricity

Milankovitch Precession

What do the UN predict about the future?

The greenhouse effect— A natural process which keeps the Earth warm. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere act as a blanket and trap solar radiation that is being radiated back out to spade from Earth. Without this the Earth would be much cooler. The enhanced greenhouse effect—Human activity has increased the amount of greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere. This means the Earth absorbs more solar radiation and as a result is becoming warmer. Human activities— Energy—The demand for energy is increasing as the population increases, standard of living improves, technology improves and people become more affluent. Industry—As people have more disposable income increases so does the demand for products from consumers leading to industrial growth. This leads to more fossil fuels being used. Transport—As cars are becoming more affordable more people are buying and using them. As well as this, flights are now cheaper so people fly more. All modes of transport rely on fossil fuels at present. Farming—As the population has grew the need for more food has increased leading to more intensive agricultural practices that require machinery.

Evidence of human induced climate change

What is the greenhouse effect?

What is the enhanced greenhouse effect?

Consequences of climate change

The Atmosphere operates as a global system which transfers heat around the Earth.

Solar Insolation and radiation –

CORIOLIS EFFECT JET STREAMS Surface Winds Ocean Currents

Evidence for natural climate change -

Ice Cores

Tree Rings

Historical sources

High Winds

Intense Rainfall

Storm surges

Coastal Flooding

Landslides

How are tropical storms formed?

Intensity of Tropical Cyclones Tropical cyclones need warm water to form, they also need the Coriolis effect for them to rotate hence they are not located at the Equator. As well as this they need—

High humidity– there must be a lot of moisture in the atmosphere.

Rapid cooling– rising air must condense quickly to form the rainbands

Low wind shear– if winds are blowing in different directions in the atmosphere a cyclone cannot form.

Pre-existing low pressure– for the air to rise and generate a storm.

Vulnerability to cyclones Coastal areas

Low lying land

Social Vulnerability

Social inequality (poverty)

Age

Economic Vulnerability

.

Where are they located?

What are the Hazards of Tropical Storms?

How do we measure cyclones?

The impacts of tropical cyclones are linked to a country’s ability to prepare and respond to them Preparing depends on accurate forecasting and effective communication to people at risk. Ways of preparing:

Atmospheric Pressure

Satellite tracking and radar.

Modelling

Communicating information

How can the responding to Tropical Cyclones prevent damage?

Response refers to how people deal

CASE STUDY—Hurricane Katrina, USA (Developed country), 2005 29/08/2005, Hurricane Katrina a category 3 hurricane, made landfall on the South coast of the USA. Preparing Response

CASE STUDY—Typhoon Haiyan, Philippines (Emerging country), 2013 2/11/2013— Typhoon Haiyan was the strongest tropical cyclones on record which was a category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale Preparation Response –.

What causes a storm to dissipate energy?

Type of plate boundary Description Features produced Example plates and countries.

Convergent (Oceanic and Continental crust)

Convergent (Continental vs Continental)

Divergent plate boundaries

Conservative plate boundary

Planning and Prediction Impacts

Short Term Response Long term responses / Reducing the impact

Impacts Short Term Responses

Long Term Responses Reducing the impact

Layers of the Earth

The Crust—.

The Mantle—

- The lithosphere—

The Asthenosphere—

The Outer Core

The Inner Core .

What are convection currents?

Types of volcanoes Shield

Composite

Hotspot

What are earthquakes and how are they measures?

What are tsunamis?

The amount of damage an earthquake creates depends on several factors:

How can you predict earthquakes and volcanoes?

Preparing for volcanoes and earthquakes Building Design

Education—

Emergency services—

Developed Country Case Study Developing Country Case Study

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KEY VOCABULARY

Development Demographic data Colonialism Top-down strategy

Economic Fertility rate Noe-colonialism Bottom-up strategy

Social Birth rate Climate TNC

Political Death rate Health Globalisation

GDP Life expectancy Education Income quintile

HDI Maternal mortality

rate

Topography Externalities

Political Corruption Infant mortality rate Systems of governance NGO

Inequality Population structure International relations Intermediate technology

Developing Country Population pyramid Rostow’s modernisation theory Inter-governmental organisation (IGO)

Developed Country Composite indices Frank’s dependency theory Infrastructure

Emerging Country investment

How do we define and measure development? (describe and explain the following)

GDP Life Expectancy

HDI Corruption Index

Adult Literacy Infant Mortality

How do development theories explain development? FRANK’s Dependency theory

Diagram

Explanation

Name: Development Dynamics 1: What is the scale of global inequality and how can it be reduced?

How does demographic data vary at different levels of development? Describe and explain the differences in the three pyramids

What are the causes and consequences of global inequalities?

SOCIAL HISTORICAL ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMIC POLITICAL

What are the advantages and disadvantages of

different approaches of development?

Organisation Advantages Disadvs

NGO

TNC

IGO

What are the different approaches to development? Top Down Development

Characteristics:

Key players:

Case study:

How do development theories explain development? ROSTOW’S Modernisation Theory

Diagram

Explanation

What are the different approaches to development? Bottom-Up Development

Characteristics:

Key players:

Case study

Details:

Developed—e.g. London and Paris

Emerging—e.g. Mexico City and Mumbai

Developing e.g. Lagos

. . .

Features Formal Employment (E.g. Industry—car manufacturer)

Informal Employment (E.g. street seller)

Scale of activity

Large scale—Usually in a factory Small scale– maybe on a street corner

Level of skill

High level skilled work Low level skills

Ease of entry

Needs a lot of funding and equipment to get started.

Needs little funding or equipment to start

Need of capital

Needs a lot of capital to get started and is often funded by governments

Needs little capital to start

Number of workers

Often more than 100 workers Usually a few workers who are generally unemployed

Working conditions

Workers have protection to ensure the environment is safe e.g. accident prevention policies. Usually there are set working hours and some have trade unions to ensure good working conditions.

No protection for workers. No set working hours, may have to pay protection to gangs. There are no trade unions to support workers.

Location Factories Home or on the street

Taxes Pay tax to the government Pay no taxes

Formal and Informal economy

The impact of migration on urbanisation— National migration International migration

Impact of economic change on urbanisation Growth of cities— Decline of Cities

Differences in Urban Economies The developed, emerging and developing countries are at different stages of economic development, which is reflected in their urban economies. The Clark-Fisher model of changing employment helps us determine the stage of economic development of a country. These stages are:

Pre –industrial

Industrial

Post-industrial

Later stage

Cities change overtime and this is reflected in changing land use (How population, distribution changes overtime, characteristics of urban areas)

The number of people living in a city, where they live within the city and how the city shapes itself all change over time. A city may go through each of the following stages:

Urbanisation— .

Suburbanisation

De-industrialisation

Counter-urbanisation

Regeneration

Reurbanisation.

Factors influencing land use:

Accessibility.

Availability

Cost

Planning Regulation

Similarities and differences between developed, developing and emerging countries:

Similarities:

Differences:

Urbanisation is a result of socio-economic processes and change. (migration, national, international, urban economies, type of employment)

Urbanisation is the process by which an increasing percentage of people live in towns and cities. It is mainly caused due to migration from rural areas. Urbanisation is more prominent in emerging and developing countries. By contrast the urban population in developed countries will grow less. Demographers make projections of what they think will happen in the future. Most agree that urban areas will increase and rural areas will decrease. Urbanisation in developed countries—The growth of urban areas in developed countries was a result of the industrial and agricultural revolutions in the 18th and 19th centuries. At this time people moved from rural areas to the urban areas to gain work in factories. Urbanisation has been slow and over a long period of time. It has remained steady in developed countries since the 1980s.

Why functional zones form in cities? Land use zones

Push Factors Pull factors

CASE STUDY—The location and context of Mumbai Megacity –influences, structure, growth & function

(Site, situation, connectivity, structure, functions)

How has Mumbai’s structure developed? 1. Urban-rural fringe

2. Outer suburbs

3. City-Centre

4. Inner suburbs

CASE STUDY—Mumbai is rapidly growing (Reasons for population growth and how it has affected the pattern of spatial growth and changing urban functions and land use)

Quality of life (QOL)

QOL in Mumbai

Difference in QOL

Reason for differences

Political and economic challenges of manging Mumbai

Opportunities The rise of the service sector

Dharavi industries

Infrastructure benefits.

Challenges Rapid expansion

Traffic congestion.

Housing.

Living with slums

Working conditions

CASE STUDY—Quality of life can be improved through different strategies (Bottom-up, Top-down)

What are top down strategies to improve quality of life What are bottom up strategies?

SPARC and community toilet blocks - What was it? Was it successful?

Hamara foundation - What was it? Was it successful?

Agora Microfinance India - What was it? Was it successful?

Vision Mumbai – What was it? Was it successful?

What are sustainable cities?

Have the schemes improves Dharavi’s QOL

Depositional landforms:

How is a spit formed?

What landforms and features are found on the Holderness

Coast

Flamborough Head

Mappleton

Spurn Point

How have humans used this stretch of coastline (think about

settlements, which industries? Where?

Mappleton-

Withernsea-

Easington-

Spurn Point-

including management, works in combination with

geomorphic processes to impact the landscape.

Can you define the following key terms?

Hard Engineering:

Soft Engineering:

Discuss some of the different types of coastal management. Make sure to consider the advantages and disadvantages.

Case Study

Holderness Coast

The geomorphic processes operating at different scales and

how they are influenced by geology and climate

How human activity, including management, works in

combination with geomorphic processes to impact the

landscape.

What are the two types of weathering that affect coasts?

What are the four types of coastal erosion?

Can you explain how material is transported along the coast?

Longshore Drift

Coastal landform formed by erosion:

Can you draw a diagram (make sure to annotate) to show the formation of caves, arches, stacks and stumps? Coastal Landforms from Erosion:

Can you draw a diagram to show cliff retreat?

Coastal landform formed by erosion:

Can you explain how headlands and bays are formed?

Unit 2: UK’s evolving Landscape- Geology

Course Gradient Valley and channel

shape

Cross

Profile

Upper

Middle

Lower

What are the different types of weathering and mass movement, which

occur in drainage basins?

Mechanical/ Physical weathering

Chemical weathering

Biological Weathering

Soil Creep

Landslide

River Processes

What are the four processes of

erosion?

What are the four processes of

transportation?

Why do rivers deposit

material?

Erosional Landforms:

Explain the formation of a waterfall

Erosional Landforms:

Explain the formation of either a meander and ox-bow lake

Erosional Landforms:

Explain the formation of a v-shaped valley

What are the geomorphic processes operating at different

scales and how they are influenced by geology and climate

How human activity, including management, works in combination with geomorphic processes to impact the landscape.

How has the river been altered by humans? (consider changes to the river, its course, and the river side)

How have they reduced the risk of flooding or its effects?

Ext: Evaluate the different types of river management – What is the most sustainable?

What are the geomorphic processes

operating at different scales and

how they are influenced by geology

and climate

What and where are the main

landforms and features along the

River Tees case study-

Upper course

Mid course

Lower course

How has London’s populations changed in recent

years?

What is meant by skilled workers?

What is meant by unskilled workers?

What four countries make up the UK? Name each

one and their urban core regions;

1

2.

3.

4.

Describe the population density for each of these

countries:

1.

2.

3.

4

The UK’s Evolving

Human Landscape

How is deprivation measured?

What does IMD stand for?

How do we know that Newham is more deprived

than Richmond?

Draw a diagram showing the cycle of urban

growth and decline. Annotate where and when

these occurred in London

What is meant by de-industrialisation?

When did deindustrialisation happen in London?

Which areas were most affected by

deindustrialisation?

The UK’s Evolving Human

Landscape

How is deprivation measured?

What does IMD stand for?

How do we know that Newham is more deprived

than Richmond?

Unit 3: People and the biosphere

Key Terms:

Biome

Ecosystem

Food Chain

Latitude

Altitude

Atmospheric circulation

Biodiversity

Indigenous

Keystone species

Abiotic

Malthus

Boserup

Positive checks

Innovation

Exploitation of global biomes:

Cause /

threat

Cause Consequence

Cattle

ranching

Dam Building

Palm oil

plantation

Mining

Burning fossil

Controls of the biomes / factors affecting location of biomes

Global:

Latitude

Air pressure (weather/ precipitation)

Continentality

Local:

Geology / soil type

Altitude

Human influence

Compare the Climates of both biomes

What are the layers of

the rainforest? What

would you find in each

layer?

Unit 3: Consuming energy resources

How oil reserves and production are unevenly distributed?

How access to energy resources is affected by access to technology and physical

resources>

What is the future of the UK’s Energy?