Mindmap checklist

PAPER 1


Pollution

  • Properties of pollutants

  • Smoke pollution

  • Photochemical smog

  • Acid rain and NOx

  • Tropospheric ozone

  • Carbon monoxide

  • Water pollution; thermal pollution

  • Water pollution: oil pollution

  • Water pollution: pesticide pollution

  • Water pollution: nutrient pollution

  • Monitoring water pollution

  • Acid mine drainage and heavy metal pollution

  • Solid waste pollution

  • Noise pollution

  • Ionising radiation


Atmosphere:

  • Structure and composition

  • Global climate change: causes and ecological consequences

  • GCC- physical consequences

  • Impacts of GCC on human society

  • Monitoring and predicting GCC

  • Controlling and adapting to GCC

  • Feedback mechanisms and tipping points

  • Ozone depletion


Hydrosphere

  • Global demand for water

  • Natural hydrological cycle

  • Human impacts on hydrological cycle

  • Water abstraction- use of reservoirs

  • Water abstraction- use of aquifers

  • Rivers

  • Meeting future water demand

  • Water treatment


Lithosphere

  • Structure of earth and mineral resources

  • Geological processes that related exploitable mineral deposits

  • Mineral exploitation

  • Mineral exploration

  • Environmental impacts of mineral exploitation

  • Future of mineral resources


Biogeochemical cycles

  • Carbon cycle

  • Nitrogen cycle

  • Phosphorus cycle

  • Diagrams of each cycle


Soil

  • Components of soil

  • Human activities and soil fertility

  • Soil erosion and human activities

  • Soil management strategies


Energy resources




PAPER 2


Conditions for life on Earth:

  • Conditions for life on earth

  • Presence of life and change

  • Methods to research past conditions on earth


Conservation and biodiversity

  • Importance of conservation of biodiversity of resources

  • Reasons for conservation- ecosystem services

  • Threats to biodiversity- direct exploitation and deliberate eradication

  • Changes in abiotic and biotic factors

  • Habitat destruction

  • Setting conservation priorities

  • Legislation and protocols

  • Ex situ conservation

  • In situ conservation

  • Temperate broadleaf woodland

  • Topical rainforests

  • Tropical coral reefs

  • Deep water coral reefs

  • Oceanic islands

  • Mangroves

  • Antarctica


Life processes in the biosphere

  • Adaptation and conservation

  • Ecological terminology

  • Ecological succession

  • Plagioclimax and secondary succession

  • Population dynamics


Agriculture

  • Introduction to agroecosystems

  • Abiotic factors and their control- physical factors

  • Abiotic factors and their control- edaphic factors

  • Biotic factors and their control

  • Manipulation of food species- plants

  • Manipulation of food species- animals

  • Agricultural energetics

  • Environmental impacts of farming

  • Human factors influencing agriculture

  • Increasing sustainability of agriculture


Forestry

  • Importance of forests

  • Forest exploitation and management

  • Deforestation and sustainable forestry


Aquatic food resources

  • Marine productivity

  • Environmental impacts of fishing

  • Reducing environmental impacts of fishing

  • Fish population dynamics

  • Principles of aquaculture

  • Future of aquaculture


Sustainability

  • Defining sustainability

  • Principles of earths ecological support systems

  • Circular economy

  • Global footprint network and living planet report