Year 9 Autumn Assessment Revision Guidance 2024 PDF

Year 9 Autumn Assessment – Revision Guidance Your Autumn assessment will ask you questions about the topics and places you have learned about in Year 9 Unit 1 and Unit 2 lessons 1 – 4. You will complete: o 30 multiple choice questions. o A short-written test including short skills...

Year 9 Autumn Assessment – Revision Guidance Your Autumn assessment will ask you questions about the topics and places you have learned about in Year 9 Unit 1 and Unit 2 lessons 1 – 4. You will complete: o 30 multiple choice questions. o A short-written test including short skills questions totalling 6 marks and a 9-mark longer written question about Unit 1 Lesson 8 (see box 3 below). It is not possible to properly revise every single lesson that you have learned in Units 1 and 2. Instead, focus on revising the ideas and skills in the three boxes below. 1. Key terms to revise 2. Bigger ideas and skills to revise carbon sink What is the subject of Geography? constructive / destructive margins Earth’s layers, continents, and oceans coral reef ocean layer characteristics earthquake marine ecosystem island arcs – formation and example mangrove mid-ocean ridges – formation and example ocean current How is the ocean a carbon sink? phytoplankton surface layer / thermocline / deep ocean reading world maps – oceans and continents tectonic plates identifying plate margins and margin types on tsunami maps (e.g., destructive and constructive) 3. Key lesson to revise – Unit 1 Lesson 8 (Explain how the ocean stores carbon.) Ideas to revise: Tip: Using Mastery booklet p.37-39, revise the four processes in Figure 2 on page 38. The four ways in which oceans store € carbon? CO2 dissolves into seawater. Key terms CO2 absorbed during photosynthesis algae, carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon and transferred through the food web. storage, coral polyps, dissolves, marine plants, photosynthesis, carbonate Carbon to create carbonate shells and protective shells, organisms, phytoplankton, the limestone exoskeletons of coral sediments, trapped, zooplankton polyps. Carbon in dead organisms buried on the seabed. You may wish to use some of the following strategies to help you revise: Revise the glossaries Create flash cards Practice reading the Discuss how carbon for Units 1 – 2. maps and graphs is stored in oceans. mentioned in box 2.