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Geography
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Free Geography study notes for Senior Secondary (HKDSE) students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Opportunities and Risks — Is it rational to live in hazard- prone areas?
Managing River and Coastal Environments – A continuing challenge
Living with our physical environment
Tectonic hazards: earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis
Human responses: mitigation, preparedness, recovery
Social-economic factors influencing settlement
River systems: drainage basins, erosion, transport, deposition, landforms
Coastal systems: wave action, coastal landforms, erosional/depositional features
Human impacts: hard/soft engineering, land reclamation, pollution
Facing changes in the human environment
Location factors: raw materials, labour, transport, markets
Case studies: iron & steel industry; IT industry relocation
Smart-city planning, green infrastructure, energy‑efficient buildings
Transport, waste, water management
Changing Industrial Location – How and why does it change over space and time?
Confronting global challenges
Root causes: climate, soil, governance, conflict
Technological solutions: irrigation, GM crops, farming systems
Tropical rainforest ecosystems, biodiversity
Causes: logging, agriculture, urbanisation
Sustainable forestry, REDD+, eco‑tourism
Climate systems, greenhouse gases, feedback loops
Evidence: temperature records, ice cores, sea‑level rise
Mitigation & adaptation, international agreements, controversies
Building a Sustainable City – Are environmental conservation and urban development mutually exclusive?
Combating Famines – Is technology a panacea for food shortage?
Dynamic Earth
Plate tectonics
Rock cycle
Mass movements
Natural disasters
Weather and Climate
Atmospheric processes
Climate zones
Typhoons, droughts
Climate change
Disappearing Green Canopys – Who should pay for the massive deforestation in rainforest regions?
Transport
Transport systems
Flows, accessibility
Transport planning and management
Impacts on development
Global Warming – Is it fact or fiction?
Regional Study of the Zhujiang (Pearl River) Delta
Physical and human geography of PRD region
Industrialisation
Changing agricultural development
Urbanisation
Changing land use pattern and urban expansion
Environmental issues
Geographical skills and fieldwork enquiry
Map reading & topographic interpretation
Graph, chart & data interpretation
Fieldwork methods & questionnaires
GIS application & spatial analysis
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