Yr 8 Revision for the Exam

Lots of amazing stuff on the learning spaces

• Have a look here

• learn.surbitonhigh.com/geography/year-8/

1. Global Issues

• Can you remember the global issues you learnt about at the start of the year?

GLOBAL WARMING• What is Global Warming?• An increase in the level of Greenhouse gas emissions, trap

heat in the Earth’s atmosphere. Many scientists believe that there is a clear link between the Greenhouse effect and Global Warming.

• Complete your own table to highlight, two causes, two effects and two responses to Global Warming.

Cause Effect Response

Sea Level Rise - Causes

Resource Extraction:What is happening in the Congo?

Write a text, explaining the issue.

Why is food a global issue?

These food boxes will really help local families

Why do some people not have access to safe drinking water?

Everest Ngirukwayo, 48, sitting outside his house with his son Innocent Twagira, 15, who is recovering from nearly drowning in the lake while collecting water. Nyiramahirwe village, Bugesera, Rwanda.

“My son fell in the lake collecting water. Another child passed him a jerry can but it floated away. He went after it but my son cannot swim so he got taken by the lake. All we require is access to water near to our house.”

Quiz 1

• On a post it write a key word from this section that you will then pass to your neighbour to put on their forehead.

• They then have to guess it by asking you questions that you can only answer yes or no to.

2. Europe

European Identity

• What is identity?

What country does this advert remind you of and how do you know?

European Migration

Push Factors Pull Factors

Quiz 2

• Bingo 4x4 grid

3. Plate Tectonics

Outer core

Crust

Mantle

Inner core

Attach labels to the correct part of the diagram.

How is the earths crust divided up?

HOW DO PLATES MOVE ?

1) AWAY FROM EACH OTHER (constructive)

HOW DO PLATES MOVE ?

2) TOWARDS EACH OTHER (destructive)

HOW DO PLATES MOVE ?

• 3) ALONGSIDE EACH OTHER (conservative)

Tsunamis

• Watch this video to see what causes tsunamis.

Case Study of Tsunami

Hazard Research Project

• THIS IS WHAT YOU HAD TO DO, you could get a question on any part of it..– For your hazard include; 1. What CAUSES it. 2. What EFFECTS it has on people. (maybe immediate and long term

effects)3. How do people respond to it – e.g. how do they prepare for future

hazards, what are people told to do during the hazard, et. 4. Where are these hazards found in the world?5. Fact Box / page (E.g. top 5 / 10? - to include biggest, deadliest, etc.) 6. An example of the hazard (Who, What, When, Where, Why and

How?)7. Maps, photos, diagrams and more maps! Maybe a photo or two of a

model you made? Be creative.

Quiz 3.

• Just a minute – no umms or errs!

• On the topic of …

HAZARDS

4. Crime

How is geography linked to crime?

What are the effects of crime

Which areas feel safer than others?

Quiz 4

• Any geographical word from this year Taboo