This document provides information about the AS Level Geography course at Chew Valley School. It outlines the topics that will be covered in the Physical Geography unit on Rivers, including river processes, landforms, flooding causes and impacts. It also lists the topics that will be covered in the Human Geography unit on Population, including world population growth, changes in population characteristics, and demography. Finally, it discusses representing population data on maps and gives examples of data that could be mapped, such as birth rate, death rate, infant mortality, and UK population density. Students are assigned a summer task to creatively represent three pieces of this population data on a world map for each continent.

1. Geography AS
Chew Valley School

2. • Understand content of the course
• To appreciate fluvial systems
• To appreciated how population data can be
presented
• Year 12 trip to Devon info
Lesson objectives

3. What will you study at AS
level?
Physical
∗ Rivers floods and
management
∗ Coastal
environments
Human
∗ Population Change
∗ Health issues
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4. ∗ Drainage basin
∗ Hydrological cycle
∗ Factors affecting discharge
∗ Channel processes
∗ Valley profiles
∗ Changing channel characteristics
∗ Landforms
∗ Rejuvenation
∗ Causes of flooding
∗ Impact of flooding
COASTS WILL BE YOUR SECOND TOPIC
What you will cover in RIVERS

5. ∗ AQA AS Geography
∗ Amanda Barker, David
Redfern and Malcolm
Skinner
∗ Philip Allen updates
∗ ISBN: 978 0 340 94611 4
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6. The Hydrological cycle
?

7. The Drainage Basin System

8. Drainage basins are open systems and link with the
global hydrological cycle

9. What are the differences between
open and closed systems?
∗ Open systems – exchange both energy and mass
with their surroundings.
The water system in your house is an example of an
open system.
∗ Closed systems – are open to the transfer of energy
only.
The hydrological cycle is an example.

10. The differences between the
hydrological and drainage basin
systems
∗ Your task is to produce a double page spread for an
A level textbook on the hydrological cycle and
drainage basin system
You will need to include answers to the following key
questions:
∗ What is the hydrological cycle?
∗ What is the drainage basin system?
∗ What are the differences between open and
closed systems?
Include diagrams, key words in bold and consider
layout in detail.

11. • To appreciate fluvial systems
• Representing population data on a map
• Year 12 trip to Devon info
Lesson objectives

12. You will cover:
- World population growth
- Changes in population characteristics
- Demographic change
- Population structure
- Migration
- Population and resources
- Optimum population
- Population control
Unit 2 is HEALTH GEOGRAPHY!
What will you cover in
POPULATION?

13. ∗ Data in Geography can be represented in
thousands of different ways
∗ Representing this data effectively is a very
important skill in Geography
Representing data effectively

14. Birth Rate

15. Death Rate

16. Infant Mortality

17. UK population density

18. ∗ You all have the following data:
Representing data effectively

20. ∗ To represent 3 pieces of information on one
world map
∗ Choose 3 of the 6 pieces of information
∗ On your map represent the pieces of
information for each of the 6 continents
∗ Be creative, imaginative, neat and tidy!
Summer Task