Learner Guide for Cambridge IGCSE
COURSEWORK
Results analysis complete, 2016 results (secondary data)
2.2. RIVER PROCESSES
Channel characteristics & drainage basins
Water cycle, Erosion, transportation processes
Upper course, Middle course, meanders, Middle to lower course
2.3. COASTAL PROCESSES
Features of a wave, Coastal erosion features
Depositional features – spits, salt marshes, Sand dunes
Coral reefs, Threats, Mangroves
Coastal defences, Coastal management case study
2.1. TECTONIC PROCESSES
Plate tectonics – Earth structure & plate boundaries
2.4., 2.5. WEATHER, CLIMATE & NATURAL VEGETATION
Climate characteristics & climate graphs, Climate factors
TRF, TRF worksheet, Peruvian Amazon Case Study
Hot deserts, Hot deserts worksheet
1.1 – 1.4. POPULATION & MIGRATION
Population explosion, Demographic Transition Model, DTM worksheet
Factors affecting population growth, Factors affecting population growth worksheet, Population distribution, density & over-/under-population
Population policies: China One Child policy, France pro-natalist policy
Migration, Case study (Mexico to USA), Sample migration question and mark scheme
1.5. – 1.7. SETTLEMENT & URBANISATION
Settlement: Site, Situation, Pattern, Function & hierarchy, Elgin map, Urban land use models, Urban map work, York map, Typical urban structure & characteristics, Changing retail land use in MEDC’s, Changing location of retail land use
Case study: Rocinha/Rio de Janeiro Improving Rio Case study PPT, Improving Rio case study worksheet
Urbanisation: Problems of urban growth, Urban change MEDC case study – New York, Urbanisation, Urbanisation Push-Pull factors, Urbanisation in Brazil, Improving Rio PPT, Improving Rio Case Study
3.1 DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALISATION
Development indicators PPT, Development indicators key terms, Development indicators merits, Development indicators prep, Inequalities PPT, Explaining inequalities between countries, Explaining inequalities within countries,
Industry classification & development PPT, Triangular graph exercise, Introduction to globalisation PPT, Globalisation sheet 1, Globalisation sheet 2
3.2 FOOD PRODUCTION
Food production key words, Farming as a system PPT, Agriculture systems diagram, Factors affecting farm type card sort, Input factors & case study PPT, Food supply PPT,Solutions info sheet,Green Revolution PPT
3.3 INDUSTRY
Industry classification & systems PPT, High tech industry system, Manufacturing industry system, Industry location PPT, Factors affecting industrial location, High tech industrial location PPT, Bangalore case study sheet
3.7 ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Environmental risks of economic development 1, Environmental risks of economic development 2, Sustainable development & management, Solutions to food shortages, Pearl River Case Study
3.4 TOURISM
Introduction, Growth of Tourism, Advantages & Disadvantages, Advantages & Disadvantages statements
3.5 & 3.6 ENERGY & RESOURCES
Alasdair Monteith, Steve Cook and Laura Sproule 