AS Human Geography Revision (Module 2681)

1 hour; 30% AS

There are 3 main areas of the syllabus (for full details refer to the KSW website):

1. Population

2. Rural settlements

3. Urban settlements: MEDCs & LEDCs

Below is an outline of the AS course which you have studied this year. The book page numbers refer to the two texts that have been issued to you.

1. Population

¤ Factors affecting population density and distribution (Hart p.120-125)

¤ CASE STUDY:: Population density & distribution in Brazil (Waugh p.322-324)

¤ Definitions

¤ Population changes over time: natural increase, CBR, CDR, age-sex structures (Waugh p.330-331; Hart p.132-134)

¤ Demographic Transition Model (Waugh p.236-237; Hart p.131-132)

¤ CASE STUDY: Population changes over time: China (Hart p.145-147 & handouts on the One Child Policy)

¤ Population Change through space: Types of migration (Waugh p.337-338; Hart p.136-139)

¤ CASE STUDY: International migration: Turks into Germany (Waugh p.345-346)

¤ CASE STUDY: Internal migration: Puebla, Mexico to Mexico City (Video notes & handouts)

2. Rural settlements

¤ Site & situation (Hart p.158; Waugh p.362)

¤ Evolution of settlement in the UK (Hart p.153-157)

¤ CASE STUDY: South Oxfordshire (Hart p.157)

¤ Settlement patterns: nucleated & dispersed (Waugh p.368)

¤ Case Study: settlement morphology: Chalgrove, Oxfordshire (Hart p.161); Kempsey

¤ Definitions: range, threshold, hierarchy, centrality

¤ Hierarchies (Hart p.163-165)

¤ CASE STUDY: South Oxfordshire (Hart p.166-167)

¤ Rural to urban migration: rural depopulation: Remoter rural areas

¤ CASE STUDY: Gower Fieldwork on village size and services

¤ Urban to rural migration - counterurbanisation: Commuter villages (Hart p.181-4)

¤ CASE STUDY: Changes in UK villages: South Oxfordshire (Ipsden & Chalgrove)

¤ Rural changes: services decline (Hart p.185)

3. Urban settlements

• MEDC Urbanisation
• Characteristics of city centres (Hart p.193)
• Causes of suburbanisation (Hart p.195)
• MEDC Urban structure (Hart p.227-228)
• Bid Rent Theory
• Population distribution and density in cities (Hart p.233-234)
• Spatial segregation: the Residential Mosaic (Hart p.233-234)
• CASE STUDY: Ethnic segregation in Birmingham
• Problems of urban growth: Housing & Urban Sprawl (Hart p.197)

o Congestion & Commuting (Hart p.198)

o Air Pollution (Hart p.200)

o Water Supply (Hart p.202)

o Waste Disposal (Hart p.202)

• CASE STUDY: Growth of Worcester
• CASE STUDY: Los Angeles urban sprawl & problems (Hart p.197-202)
• CASE STUDY: Los Angeles planning responses (Hart p.204-210)

• LEDC urbanisation & rural to urban migration (Hart p.212)
• CASE STUDY: Puebla, Mexico (push factors)
• CASE STUDY: Mexico City: Housing & Urban Sprawl (Hart p.217-221; p.224-6)

o Air Pollution

o Water Supply

o Waste Disposal

• LEDC land use & growth: Case Study: Mexico City (Hart p.222-223; p.229)

Remember that you should use geographical vocabulary in your answers and apply your knowledge to the question. You must read the question carefully and consider the number of marks allocated for your answer. A full list of command words which may be used in the exam can be found on the KSW geography website (www.ksw.org.uk/geography). Be sure that you understand what they mean! There are several useful links on the KSW Geography Website and you may find a software package called AS Geography (installed on school PCs) useful.

Good Luck!

02/2006