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Geography
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Free Geography study notes for Key Stage 3 (KS3) students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Locational knowledge
The world's countries: using world maps and spatial awareness
Africa: countries, major cities and key physical and human characteristics
Russia: major cities and key physical and human characteristics
Asia (including China and India): countries, major cities and key physical and human characteristics
The Middle East: countries, major cities and key physical and human characteristics
Environmental regions, including polar and hot deserts
Place knowledge
The human and physical geography of a region within Africa
The human and physical geography of a region within Asia
Geographical similarities, differences and links between the two regions studied
Human and physical geography: physical processes
Geological timescales
Plate tectonics
Rocks, weathering and soils
Weather and climate
Change in climate from the Ice Age to the present
Glaciation
Hydrology
Coasts
Human and physical geography: human processes
Population
Urbanisation
International development
Economic activity in the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary sectors
The use of natural resources
How human and physical processes interact to change landscapes, environments and the climate, and how human activity relies on natural systems
Geographical skills and fieldwork
Globes, maps and atlases
Ordnance Survey maps: grid references and scale
Topographical and thematic mapping, aerial and satellite photographs
Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Fieldwork: collecting, analysing and drawing conclusions from geographical data
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