S2 Course Outline
Earth Forces
- Where do volcanoes and earthquakes happen? Location factors
- Why volcanoes and earthquakes happen
- Features of a volcano
- Effects of volcanic eruptions on people and the local environment
- Causes of earthquakes
- Effects of earthquakes on people and the local environment
- Investigating an earthquake - El Salvador earthquake investigation
- Physical landscapes - processes, which create landscapes, e.g., work of rivers, ice, sea, wind and how they shape the land. Features of coastal erosion
Environmental Matters
- Concern about the environment
- Measuring the quality of the environment
- Protecting the countryside, National Parks, Country Code, Role of a park ranger
- O.S map skills in a rural tourist area
- Tourism - benefits and problems
- Majorca case study
- Mediterranean climate
- Environment matters project: deforestation or protecting wildlife
Contrasting Lands
- Sparsely and densely populated areas in the world. Reasons for location, climate, lifestyle in tundra, desert, rainforest.
- Egypt; a developing country - population, lifestyle, Cairo problems for growth
- Japan Case study, Investigating location, climate, life in the country and city, industry and development
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