Geography Test Overcap

📘 Assessment 1: Multiple Choice Test

🗓 Week of 23rd June (or 30th if fewer lessons)
🕒 40 minutes | 50 questions

Topics Covered:

  • 🌍 Climate Change

  • 🌊 Rivers and Flooding

How to Revise:

  • Make flashcards for key terms (e.g. erosion, deposition, greenhouse effect).

  • Use practice quizzes online.

  • Revise case studies and diagrams from lessons.

🔑 Key Definitions

  • Climate Change – A long-term change in the Earth's climate.

  • Greenhouse Effect – The warming of Earth caused by greenhouse gases trapping heat.

  • Carbon Footprint – Total greenhouse gases emitted by a person/organisation.

🌡 Causes of Climate Change

  • Natural Causes:

    • Volcanic eruptions

    • Solar activity

  • Human Causes:

    • Burning fossil fuels (CO₂)

    • Deforestation

    • Agriculture (methane)

🌎 Impacts of Climate Change

  • Rising sea levels

  • Melting glaciers

  • More extreme weather (e.g. droughts, floods)

  • Loss of biodiversity

  • Food and water insecurity

✅ Solutions to Climate Change

  • Renewable energy (solar, wind)

  • Reforestation

  • Reducing car use / using public transport

  • International agreements (e.g. Paris Agreement)

🌊 Section 2: Rivers and Flooding

🌀 Key River Terms

  • Erosion – Wearing away of land (e.g. hydraulic action, abrasion)

  • Transportation – Movement of material (traction, saltation, suspension)

  • Deposition – Dropping of material when the river slows

🏞 River Landforms

  • Upper Course: V-shaped valleys, waterfalls

  • Middle Course: Meanders, oxbow lakes

  • Lower Course: Floodplains, deltas

🌧 Causes of Flooding

  • Heavy rainfall

  • Urbanisation (impermeable surfaces)

  • Deforestation

  • Snowmelt

  • Steep slopes

💥 Impacts of Flooding

  • Deaths/injury

  • Damage to homes and crops

  • Contaminated water

  • Economic cost

🛠 Flood Management

  • Hard engineering: dams, levees, flood walls

  • Soft engineering: planting trees, floodplain zoning, warning systems

📗 Assessment 2: Longer Answer Test

🕒 45 minutes | 40 marks

Topics Covered:

  • 🗺 GIS & Geographical Data

  • 💸 Development

Question Types:

  • PEEL paragraphs

  • Interpreting maps, diagrams, and graphs

  • Definitions and explanations

How to Revise:

  • Practice PEEL paragraphs (Point, Evidence, Explain, Link)

  • Review Dr Snow & cholera, GIS uses, Development indicators, Aid, etc.

  • Be confident reading and analysing maps/graphs.