Year 8
Geography
Places, processes and people
Changing Landscapes
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The live room uses only rivers, coasts, ice, map and fieldwork questions. The assessment saves marked answers and parent progress.
Unit 1
Biomes and climate
Global patterns of climate, vegetation and life.
0 of 5 done
What this unit covers
- Locate major biomes and describe their climate
- Explain how climate shapes vegetation
- Describe human impacts on a biome
- 1Why biomes sit where they do20 min · ★ · 3 quick checksStart →
- 2Why climate decides vegetation25 min · ★★ · 3 quick checksStart →
- 3Human impacts on a biome30 min · ★★★ · 3 quick checksStart →
- 4Tropical rainforests: layers, cycles and adaptation30 min · ★★ · 3 quick checksStart →
- 5Managing rainforest change in the Amazon32 min · ★★★ · 3 quick checksStart →
Unit 2
Migration, settlement and trade
Why people move and how places connect.
0 of 5 done
What this unit covers
- Explain push and pull factors for migration
- Describe how settlements grow and change
- Interpret trade and movement on maps
- 1Why people and animals move20 min · ★★ · 3 quick checksStart →
- 2Push, pull and the journey between25 min · ★★ · 3 quick checksStart →
- 3How settlements grow and change25 min · ★★ · 3 quick checksStart →
- 4Development, inequality and population movement30 min · ★★★ · 3 quick checksStart →
- 5Global trade: from raw material to consumer32 min · ★★★ · 3 quick checksStart →
Unit 3
Changing landscapes: rivers, coasts and ice
How water and ice shape land, how geographers investigate change, and how people respond.
0 of 7 done
What this unit covers
- Explain erosion, transport and deposition
- Describe landforms of rivers and coasts
- Evaluate flood and coastal management
- 1Erosion, transport and deposition25 min · ★★ · 3 quick checksStart →
- 2Flooding and how we manage it30 min · ★★★ · 3 quick checksStart →
- 3Glaciation and the landscapes it left28 min · ★★★ · 3 quick checksStart →
- 4Reading an Ordnance Survey map25 min · ★★ · 3 quick checksStart →
- 5A river's journey from source to sea30 min · ★★ · 3 quick checksStart →
- 6How waves shape a coastline30 min · ★★★ · 3 quick checksStart →
- 7River fieldwork: test a geographical idea32 min · ★★★ · 3 quick checksStart →
Unit 4
The world map
Locating and understanding the continents, countries and regions of the world.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Extend locational knowledge and deepen spatial awareness of the world's countries, focusing on Africa, Russia, Asia and the Middle East
- Extend locational knowledge and deepen spatial awareness of the world's countries, focusing on Europe and North and South America
Unit 5
The United Kingdom
The regions, counties and cities of the UK, and how they compare with a place beyond Europe.
0 of 4 done
What this unit covers
- Understand the geographical regions of the UK and their defining physical and human characteristics
- Understand the wider context of the UK, including the physical and human geography of its counties and regions, and its major cities
- Understand geographical similarities, differences and links between places through the study of the human and physical geography of a region within the UK
- Understand the physical and human characteristics of an area of the UK and a wider region of the world beyond Europe
Unit 6
The changing human world
Cities, hazards, economies and climate change as the human and physical worlds interact.
0 of 4 done
What this unit covers
- Understand urbanisation, including the causes and geographical effects, at country and city scale, of urbanisation and megacities
- Understand tectonic processes and hazards, including earthquakes and volcanic activity
- Understand economic activity in the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary sectors, and the change in their inter-relationships in different economic settings
- Understand how human and physical processes interact to influence, and be influenced by, climate change
Unit 7
Maps, GIS and data skills
Practical geographical skills: maps, GIS technology and interpreting data.
0 of 3 done
What this unit covers
- Build on knowledge of globes, maps and atlases and apply and develop this knowledge routinely in the classroom and in the field
- Use geographical information systems (GIS) to view, analyse and interpret places and data
- Interpret and analyse a range of quantitative and qualitative data, including statistical data on trends and relationships between geographical phenomena
Unit 8
Restless Earth: plates, earthquakes and volcanoes
Why the ground moves, what happens at each plate margin, and why the same size earthquake kills very different numbers of people.
0 of 4 done
What this unit covers
- Explain tectonic processes at plate margins and the hazards they create.
- Compare the effects of and responses to tectonic hazards in contrasting places.
- 1Inside the Earth and the theory of plate tectonics25 min · ★★★ · 4 quick checksStart →
- 2Plate margins: destructive, constructive, conservative and collision25 min · ★★★ · 4 quick checksStart →
- 3Earthquakes: primary and secondary effects25 min · ★★★ · 4 quick checksStart →
- 4Living with tectonic hazards: prediction, protection and planning25 min · ★★★ · 4 quick checksStart →
Unit 9
Weather, climate and a warming world
Global circulation, UK weather, extreme events, and the evidence, causes and management of climate change.
0 of 4 done
What this unit covers
- Explain how global atmospheric circulation shapes climate and UK weather.
- Evaluate evidence for climate change and compare mitigation with adaptation.
- 1Global atmospheric circulation and why deserts sit where they do25 min · ★★★ · 4 quick checksStart →
- 2Extreme weather: tropical storms and UK flooding25 min · ★★★ · 4 quick checksStart →
- 3Climate change: the evidence and the causes25 min · ★★★ · 4 quick checksStart →
- 4Managing climate change: mitigation and adaptation25 min · ★★★ · 4 quick checksStart →
Unit 10
The urban and economic world
Urbanisation and megacities, life in a fast-growing city, change in a UK city, and how development is measured.
0 of 4 done
What this unit covers
- Explain the causes and effects of urbanisation at country and city scale.
- Compare development and economic change between contrasting places.
- 1Urbanisation and the rise of megacities25 min · ★★★ · 4 quick checksStart →
- 2Life in a fast-growing city: opportunities and challenges25 min · ★★★ · 4 quick checksStart →
- 3A changing UK city: decline, regeneration and sustainability25 min · ★★★ · 4 quick checksStart →
- 4Measuring development and the changing economic world25 min · ★★★ · 4 quick checksStart →
Unit 11
Geographical skills and fieldwork enquiry
Ordnance Survey maps, GIS and data presentation, and running a real enquiry from question to conclusion.
0 of 3 done
What this unit covers
- Use OS maps, GIS and graphical techniques to describe and analyse places.
- Plan, carry out and evaluate a geographical enquiry using primary data.
Unit 12
GCSE natural hazards
Tectonic and weather hazards, risk, and why the same magnitude event has different effects in different places.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Explain tectonic and weather hazards, their effects and the management of risk in contrasting places.
Unit 13
GCSE the living world
Ecosystems, tropical rainforests and hot deserts, with deforestation, desertification and sustainable management.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Describe ecosystems, tropical rainforests and hot deserts or cold environments, including sustainable management.
Unit 14
GCSE UK river landscapes
Fluvial processes, landforms down the long profile, flood hydrographs and hard and soft management.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Explain fluvial processes, landforms along the long profile, flood risk and management strategies.
Unit 15
GCSE UK coastal landscapes
Waves, erosional and depositional landforms, mass movement, and the cost of defending a coast.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Explain coastal processes, erosional and depositional landforms and hard and soft engineering.
Unit 16
GCSE urban issues and challenges
Global urbanisation, a major city in a lower-income country, a UK city, and what sustainable urban living means.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Explain global urbanisation, opportunities and challenges in a major city, and sustainable urban living.
Unit 17
GCSE the changing economic world
Measuring development, the demographic transition, closing the development gap, and economic change in the UK.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Explain development gaps, strategies to reduce them and economic change in the UK.
Unit 18
GCSE resource management
Food, water and energy: rising demand, unequal supply and the strategies used to close the gap.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Explain the demand for food, water and energy and evaluate strategies to increase supply sustainably.
Unit 19
GCSE fieldwork, skills and Paper 3
Two fieldwork enquiries, cartographic and statistical skills, and the pre-release issue evaluation.
0 of 3 done
What this unit covers
- Plan enquiries, select sampling and presentation methods, analyse data and evaluate conclusions.