Year 9 Geography Assessment Guidance PDF

YEAR 9 GEOGRAPHY ASSESSMENT GUIDANCE Your assessment will focus on content from the Asia unit you have studied this half-term. Your assessment will also contain a variety of geographical skills you have learnt and practiced since year 7. Top Tip 1: RAG your learning. Look through the revision...

YEAR 9 GEOGRAPHY ASSESSMENT GUIDANCE Your assessment will focus on content from the Asia unit you have studied this half-term. Your assessment will also contain a variety of geographical skills you have learnt and practiced since year 7. Top Tip 1: RAG your learning. Look through the revision Top Tip 2: Space out your checklist below and tick how confident you are with each revision. Short bursts of revision topic. (20 minutes) over many days is Asia Content better than 3 hours of revision the night before. I know what the term globalisation means. I can describe the distribution of sweatshops. Top Tip 3: Use the flashcards you I can explain the advantages and disadvantages of monsoons. have created in class to test yourself each day. Answer the I can explain the positive and negative impacts of shopping. question and them flip them over I can explain why plant adaptations are needed in Alpine to reveal the answer. biomes. I know what sweatshops are and can explain how they can be improved. Top Tip 4: Create mind maps I understand that improving sweatshops may have both from memory to recall what you positive and negative impacts for MNC’s such as Primark. can remember. Then use the I know what the term Fair Trade means. knowledge organiser to fill in the gaps in another colour. Repeat Geography Skills this. I can use an 8-point compass to locate places on a map. Completing graphs using data. Top Tip 5: Listen to the podcast. Interpreting and describing graphs. Take a break from reading, plug Interpreting and explaining figures such as graphs and your headphones in and listen to images. the podcast that has been created exploring Asia.  Alpine Biome and Adaptations Positives and Negatives of Monsoons ASIA KNOWLEDGE DUMP: Write down everything you can What are the impacts of consumerism remember about your Asia unit without looking at your notes. Once you have finished, look at the knowledge organiser and in another Ho you colour add any information re missed. w a ca e re n sw wh d ea n ts p s a d? ho ps o e t sh cat be e a lo im s w he y pr re t ov t a ed ha ? W  ASIA KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER Key words: Where is Asia? Human Geography Physical Geography Human Geography: how people live (e.g. Asia is made up of 48 Asia is the largest continent population/ countries covering 44.6 million km² cities/cultures/trade) More than half of all people Asia has many biomes on earth live in Asia (4.8 including mountains Physical Geography: the Billion) (Himalayas), Deserts natural features of our (Taklamakan) and planet (e.g. The largest in the world, Rainforests (Indonesia) oceans/rivers/forests) Chongqing, is in China with a population of 32 million Mount Everest is the Monsoons: a seasonal highest point on earth reversal in wind direction The life expectancy across 8849m Asia is 74.37 years Asia is tectonically active, Precipitation: anything with 590,000 quakes per that falls from the atmosphere as water (e.g. What are Monsoons? How are flora adapted yearto alpine biomes? Monsoons are a seasonal reverse in wind Alpine Biomes are mountainous regions with the following rain, hail, snow) direction over the Indian Ocean which bring characteristics... large volumes of precipitation to Asia. Crop yields: how much Monsoons have both advantages and Very cold and dry (less that 250mm of precipitation) food farmers can grow disadvantages including... Poor quality soil which can be frozen Very wind due to high altitudes Flooding: when water Advantages collects on the surface of Water for farmland which increases crop Flora (plants), such as the Primula have many adaptations to land and cannot be drained yields survive in such a harsh environment including... Freshwater added to rivers replenishes Dark coloured Long, deep Ecosystems: something water supplies in dry areas Water supplies help ecosystems such as Low to the leaves to absorb tap-roots that that is made up of living ground to heat. can collect forests as plants grow creating homes for (animals and plants) and protect it from water from deep animals non-living (soil) things such strong winds. underground. as a forest Disadvantages Bright coloured Waxy leaves trap Monsoons can create flooding which flowers attracts what little Biome: a large-scale cause deaths and damage to property pollinators which rainwater there is ecosystem such as a Monsoons can trigger landslides in help growth. to help plant tropical rainforest mountainous regions which block roads growth. Flooding in cities can bring sewage and Adaptations: features contaminated water to the surface which  ASIA KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER Key words: What are sweatshops and where are they located? Sweatshops: factories Sweatshops are factories where workers earn very low where workers earn low wages (less than $3 a day), work long hours and work in poor conditions. The map below shows were Primark manufacture wages, work long hours in their jeans (in NEE’s) and sell their jeans (in HIC’s). poor conditions Multinational companies such as Primark may use NEE’s (Newley Emerging Economies) such as India and Multination companies: Bangladesh to make their products. This is because... companies that operate in Wages in NEE’s are lower and so companies can many countries across the make more profit world (e.g. Primark, Apple, Working hours are longer and so more products can Nike) be made by workers Globalisation has meant that products can be Globalisation: advances exported to countries across the world in a shorter in technology mean we can time transport goods and information more quickly Companies like Primark sell their products in HIC’s (High Income Countries) such as the UK and the USA because people How have can higher wages andbe sweatshops canimproved? afford to buy these NEE (Newley Emerging products Are shopping patterns changing? Economy): countries that are rapidly developing Employ people over the age of 18: this would The UK is a High-Income Country, and high wages have led (improving) stop child labour and allow children to go to school to an increase in spending on luxury goods such as brand so they can get better qualifications and access clothes and smartphones. We buy more because... high paying jobs HIC (High-income Cheap products can be bought online and imported from Country): countries that Limit the working day to 12 hours: this would NEE’s have high levels of allow workers to be well rested and work more The internet has meant that you no longer need to shop development and efficiently as they would have more energy in shops standards of living Advertising has increased, especially online Offer free transport to and from work: works Holidays such as Christmas encourage spending on gifts Luxury goods: high can spend their wages on more important things quality products often sold such as better-quality food or healthcare There are many positive and negative impacts of in HIC’s such as phones, consumerism... computers and designer Purchase up to date health and safety Exchanging gifts can Pressure to have the equipment: this reduce risk of injury and workers Positives Negatives clothes bring people together latest then being forced to take time of work Jobs are created in clothes/technology Consumerism: buying retail and advertising Waste is generated Offer cheap childcare: workers would not need in the UK products from packaging and to take time off to look after children wrapping gifts