This document provides instructions for an assessment task requiring students to demonstrate their geographic understanding of population change in London over time. Students must answer two questions: 1) Describe how London's population has increased over time and explain the causes, using geographic concepts. 2) Describe how London's population has changed over time, including decreases and increases, and explain the reasons for changes using geographic concepts. The document provides guidance on answering the questions, including sample sentence starters and key geographic concepts to mention in the responses.

1. Internal Assessment 91241
Demonstrate geographic understanding
of an urban pattern
3 Credits
This assessment activity requires you to
demonstrate geographic understanding
of population change of London over
time.

2. Instructions
O You have two hours of class time.
O Answer both questions.
O Read and use the information in the
resource sheets.
O Read the questions carefully.
O Plan your answers. Use a spare sheet of
paper to write bullet points first!
O Use the PEEL technique.

3. Task 1
O Describe how the population of London
has increased over time.
O Explain what has caused the population to
increase.
O Make sure you use some of the
Geographical concepts in your answer.
Such as;
O Location, accessibility, change,
industrialisation, urbanisation, perception.

4. Task 2
O You have to describe how the population
of London has changed over time (why
did it decrease and then increase again?).
O Explain why these changes occurred,
again using the geographical concepts to
explain.
O Location, accessibility, change,
industrialisation, urbanisation, perception.

5. Some useful sentence starters;
O The population of London increased between the years
of……..
O The population of London increased rapidly between the
years of………This is because….
O Many people moved to London because…..
O The new railway line meant that…………
O Many factories moved to London because….
O The perception of London changed because….
O The population of London decreased at this time due
to….
O People began to move out of urban areas as they….
It is very important that you mention the Geographical Concepts in
your assessment; Location, Distance, Accessibility, Perception,
Change, Cumulative Causation, Interaction +++
These are written with their definitions in your resource book!