Progress in Geography: Key Stage 3, Second Edition
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English
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9781398378698
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Contents
What are we trying to achieve?
1 What is a geographer?
1.1 What is a geographer?
1.2 How do you work like a geographer?
1.3 How can we locate places around the world?
1.4 How can you write like a geographer to describe places?
1.5 Why do we use OS maps to investigate places?
1.6 How do we locate features on OS maps?
1.7 How do OS maps show height, direction and slopes?
1.8 How can we use aerial photos with OS maps?
1.9 How do geographers use models to investigate settlements?
1.10 What is a geographer? Review
2 How do we use our planet as a natural resource?
2.1 How do we use our planet as a natural resource?
2.2 How are rocks and minerals used as a natural resource?
2.3 How do the world’s forests provide natural resources?
2.4 Why are soils the root of life?
2.5 Why is food a vital natural resource?
2.6 Is there enough water for human needs?
2.7 Why is the world so dependent on oil?
2.8 What natural resources can be used to generate electricity?
2.9 How can we use natural resources sustainably?
2.10 How do we use our planet as a natural resource? Review
3 What is an economy, from local to global?
3.1 What is an economy, from local to global?
3.2 What’s happening down on the farm?
3.3 Why is manufacturing all about choosing the right site?
3.4 Why did Nissan locate in the UK?
3.5 How does the UK trade with other countries?
3.6 How does a chocolate bar connect the sectors of the economy?
3.7 What is GIS and how can it be used in economic activities?
3.8 What is globalisation?
3.9 How has containerisation accelerated globalisation?
3.10 What is an economy, from local to global? Review
4 What is weather and climate?
4.1 What is weather and climate?
4.2 How do we measure weather?
4.3 How can weather data be recorded and presented?
4.4 What are clouds and why does it rain?
4.5 What is air pressure and how does it affect our weather?
4.6 What are depressions and how do they affect our weather?
4.7 How do I conduct a weather enquiry?
4.8 What is the climate of the UK?
4.9 How does climate vary across the world?
4.10 What is weather and climate? Review
5 Why do we need to understand how the Earth works?
5.1 Why do we need to understand how the Earth works?
5.2 What are the three types of rock and the rock cycle?
5.3 What are the water and carbon cycles?
5.4 What are biomes and where are they located?
5.5 How is a tropical rainforest biome interdependent?
5.6 How are people affecting tropical rainforests? Part 1
5.7 How are people affecting tropical rainforests? Part 2
5.8 One global ocean?
5.9 How is plastic damaging the ocean?
5.10 Why do we need to understand how the Earth works? Review
6 Is the geography of Russia a hindrance or a benefit?
6.1 Is the geography of Russia a hindrance or a benefit?
6.2 What is the physical landscape of Russia?
6.3 What is the climate of Russia?
6.4 What biomes exist in Russia?
6.5 Where do people live in Russia?
6.6 Does geography help or hinder the Russian economy?
6.7 What were the causes and consequences of the Ukraine war?
6.8 Why did Russia plant their flag on the seabed of the North Pole? Part 1
6.9 Why did Russia plant their flag on the seabed of the North Pole? Part 2
6.10 Is the geography of Russia a hindrance or a benefit? Review
7 Why are rivers important?
7.1 Why are rivers important?
7.2 How does water flow into rivers?
7.3 What work do rivers do?
7.4 How do rivers change from source to mouth?
7.5 How do rivers shape the land?
7.6 How do I conduct a river fieldwork enquiry?
7.7 How are rivers important to people?
7.8 How do river floods create problems?
7.9 How can flooding be managed?
7.10 Why are rivers important? Review
8 What is development?
8.1 What is development?
8.2 How can we measure economic development?
8.3 What is the Human Development Index?
8.4 What is your ecological footprint?
8.5 How is chocolate an example of development by exploitation?
8.6 What is missing from the global development maps?
8.7 What progress has been made towards the Sustainable Development Goals?
8.8 Why are Sustainable Development Goals important for Nepal?
8.9 How can gender equality lead to development?
8.10 What is development? Review
9 One planet, many people: how are populations changing?
9.1 One planet, many people: how are populations changing?
9.2 Where does everyone live, and why?
9.3 Where does everyone live in the UK?
9.4 Why do countries conduct a census?
9.5 How can we model population change?
9.6 How can we describe the structure of a population?
9.7 Can countries control population size?
9.8 How do population structures vary within a country?
9.9 Is over-population or over-consumption damaging the Earth most?
9.10 One planet, many people: how are populations changing? Review
10 Why do people move and what impact does this have?
10.1 Why do people move and what impact does this have?
10.2 Why do people migrate?
10.3 Where do people migrate to?
10.4 Why do people migrate to Russia?
10.5 What is urbanisation?
10.6 How did urbanisation change Southampton? Part 1
10.7 How did urbanisation change Southampton? Part 2
10.8 Why should we challenge calling informal settlements ‘slums’?
10.9 What are sustainable cities?
10.10 Why do people move and what impact does this have? Review
11 What happens where the land meets the sea?
11.1 What happens where the land meets the sea?
11.2 What shapes our coasts?
11.3 What types of erosion take place at the coast?
11.4 What landforms are created by coastal erosion?
11.5 How does transportation change the coastline?
11.6 How does deposition change the coastline?
11.7 How are people affected by the changing Holderness coast?
11.8 How can people respond to coastal erosion?
11.9 What should people do in the future at Holderness?
11.10 What happens where the land meets the sea? Review
12 Diverse and dynamic: how is Asia transforming?
12.1 Diverse and dynamic: how is Asia transforming?
12.2 Why do people in Asia rely on the monsoon climate?
12.3 How do floods threaten lives in Asia?
12.4 How did deforestation transform the mountain biome?
12.5 Why is the population of Asia diverse and dynamic?
12.6 How is urbanisation changing lives in Karnataka, India?
12.7 What was the impact of European colonisation of Asia?
12.8 Is China helping to create an interdependent world?
12.9 How is Asia developing into the most important global economic region?
12.10 Diverse and dynamic: how is Asia transforming? Review
13 Why do we need to understand why volcanoes and earthquakes occur?
13.1 Why do we need to understand why volcanoes and earthquakes occur?
13.2 Do continents fit together like a jigsaw puzzle?
13.3 Where are the world’s earthquakes, volcanoes and mountain belts?
13.4 What is happening beneath our feet?
13.5 What happens at plate boundaries?
13.6 What do we know about earthquakes?
13.7 Can people living in earthquake zones manage risk?
13.8 Why is every volcano unique?
13.9 Can people living near volcanoes manage risk?
13.10 Why do we need to understand why volcanoes and earthquakes occur? Review
14 What are the challenges and opportunities for countries in Africa?
14.1 What are the challenges and opportunities for countries in Africa?
14.2 What is the physical landscape of Africa?
14.3 Is Africa still influenced by Europe’s colonial exploitation?
14.4 Is the western view of poverty in Africa a single story view?
14.5 What is the pattern of climate and biomes in Africa?
14.6 The Sahel – a future of opportunities or threats?
14.7 What are the challenges and opportunities of population change for Africa?
14.8 What are the challenges and opportunities of urbanisation for Africa?
14.9 Is China helping to develop African countries?
14.10 What are the challenges and opportunities for countries in Africa? Review
15 How does ice change the world?
15.1 How does ice change the world?
15.2 How and why do glaciers form and move?
15.3 How do glaciers change landscapes?
15.4 How are landforms shaped by glacial erosion? Part 1
15.5 How are landforms shaped by glacial erosion? Part 2
15.6 How do we know the Lake District was glaciated?
15.7 How are landforms shaped by glacial deposition?
15.8 How do people use glacial landforms?
15.9 How do we investigate how glaciers are changing?
15.10 How does ice change the world? Review
16 Why is the Middle East an important world region?
16.1 Why is the Middle East an important world region?
16.2 How does physical geography influence the region?
16.3 What problems does the climate of the Middle East create for the region?
16.4 Why is the population of the Middle East so diverse?
16.5 Why is the Middle East a major economic region of the world?
16.6 How has the United Arab Emirates developed?
16.7 Why is Yemen the least developed country in the Middle East?
16.8 Why is there ongoing conflict in the Middle East?
16.9 What are the global consequences of war in Syria?
16.10 Why is the Middle East an important world region? Review
17 Are natural disasters ‘natural’?
17.1 Are natural disasters ‘natural’?
17.2 Which parts of the world are vulnerable to natural hazards?
17.3 Was the 2010 Haiti earthquake a natural disaster or ‘disaster by choice’?
17.4 What is a tropical cyclone and how do people make them more destructive? Part 1
17.5 What is a tropical cyclone and how do people make them more destructive? Part 2
17.6 The 2022 Pakistan flood: a natural or human disaster? Part 1
17.7 The 2022 Pakistan flood: a natural or human disaster? Part 2
17.8 The 2022 European heatwave: a sign of things to come?
17.9 Covid-19: a ‘disaster by choice’?
17.10 Are natural disasters ‘natural’? Review
18 What is the future for our planet?
18.1 What is the future for our planet?
18.2 What is the evidence for climate change?
18.3 What are the causes of climate change?
18.4 What are the consequences of climate change for our planet? Part 1
18.5 What are the consequences of climate change for our planet? Part 2
18.6 What are the consequences of climate change for the UK?
18.7 What decisions do we need to make about climate change? Part 1
18.8 What decisions do we need to make about climate change? Part 2
18.9 What is the future for our planet? A geographer’s view: Review
18.10 What is a geographer? Review
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