Geography
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What2Learn provides access to over 2,000 interactive learning games and exam drills to help students to prepare for exam success. There are a huge number of activities for Geography – see the list below to see the topics covered. All student attainment is automatically recorded and instant feedback helps them to improve. |
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Sample Game: Coastal Processes
Content for Key Stage 3
- Making Connections – OS map symbols – roads and paths, railways, land features, abbreviations, antiques and boundaries
- The Restless Earth
- The parts of volcanoes (II)
- The causes of earthquakes
- Responding to earthquakes
- People everywhere
- Population quiz
- Settlements
- Flood disasters
- Floods in Bangladesh
- Reducing the risk of floods.
- Exploring the UK – Physical geography
- Exploring the UK – Human geography
- Rivers as parts of a river system
- Fluvial erosion and landforms
- The water cycle
- Coastal environments
- Types of coastal defence
- Shopping
- Advantages of out-of-town shopping centres
Content for Years 10-11
Economic activities
- Employment structure
- Types of employment
- Changes to employment structure over time
- World trade
- Trading blocs
- Farming vocabulary
- Farming in LEDCs
- Shifting cultivation
- The Green Revolution
- Changes to farming in the UK
- Eutrophication
- Manufacturing industry
- The decline of the steel industry in the UK
- Deindustrialisation and reindustrialisation
- High-tech industries
- Science parks
- Footloose’ industries
- Industry in LEDCs
- NICs (Newly Industrialising Countries)
- Industry in LEDCs – quiz
- The growth of tourism
- Tourist areas
- National Parks in England and Wales
- Problems in honeypot sites
Ecosystems and environmental issues
- Food webs
- Biomes – Key terms
- Structure of tropical rainforests
- Effects of deforestation
- Forest management
- Savanna environments
- Adaptation in savanna vegetation
- Desertification
- Afforestation
- The effects of energy production
- The causes of acid rain
- Reducing the effects of acid rain
- Global warming quiz game
- Reducing the impact of global warming
Population and development
- Global population distribution
- Factors that affect population density
- Factors that affect population density
- Population change
- World population
- Migration vocabulary
- Rural to urban migration
- Immigration
- Ways of measuring development
- Levels of development
- Reducing inequalities
- Aid
