ELIM CHRISTIAN COLLEGE

Year 11 GEOGRAPHY

NCEA Level 1

COURSE OF STUDY 2009

TERM 1        

1)         EXTREME NATURAL EVENTS

Hurricane Katrina 2005

Learning Outcome 1: What are the extreme natural events of North America and the Carribean?

·         Extreme natural events in North America

·         Geography of Norh America

·         Latitude and Longitude

·         The Beaufort Scale

·         The Saffer – Simpsom Scale

·         Naming Hurricanes

·         DVD: “Inside Hurricane Katrina”

Learning Outcome 2: What processes produce tropical cyclones? How often do they occur?

·         Weather Maps

·         Climate Graphs

·         Climate processes- Coriolis effect, anticyclones, Air convection, trade winds, ITCZ, jet stream

·         Frequency of Hurricanes

Learning Outcome 3: What sequence of events occurs when a tropical cyclone occurs?

·         Sequence of events in the natural environment.

·         Sequence of events in the cultural environment

Learning Outcome 4: What are the effects of a tropical cyclone on the land?

·         How hurricanes affect the land

·         Photograph interpretation

·         High and low islands

Learning Outcome 5: How do tropical cyclones affect economic and social activities?

·         Economic effects of a tropical cyclone

·         Social effects of a tropical cyclone

Learning Outcome 6: How can people increase or decrease the likelihood or effects of tropical cyclones?

·         What people can do before, during and after the hurricane

·         Precis Maps

Global Geographic Study: Earthquakes

TERM 2        

2)         POPULATION STUDIES

New Zealand Population  

Introduction

• Population growth
• Demographic Transition Model
• Regions of New Zealand
• Popuation distribution & density
• Global population distribution
• Choropleth Maps

Learning Outcome 1: How many New Zealanders are there?

• What is a Census

Learning Outcome 2: How is New Zealand's population made up?
Where do they come from?

• New Zealand’s population characteristics- ethnic composition
• Calculating percentage change

Learning Outcome 3: What are the problems of an aging population?

• Population pyramids
• Problems of an ageing population
• Solutions to an ageing population

Learning Outcome 4: Where is the population located? Why?

• Location of New Zealand’s population
• Dot Distribution Maps
• Proportional Circles Maps

Learning Outcome 5: Why do people move from place to place?

• History of immigration to New Zealand
• Immigration/ emigration/ net migration
• Costs and benefits of immigration
• Characteristics of emigrants
• Internal Migration
• Rural-urban drift
• Reasons why people move within New Zealand
• Push factors and pull factors
• Maori migration
• Valuing skills
• Positive negative bar graphs
• Flow line maps

Contemporary Geographic Issue: Migration Issues for New Zealand

• Birth rates, death rates, life expectancy
• Demographic transition model
• Changes to New Zealand’s population structure
• Line graphs & multi line graphs
  
  
  
  

  TERM 3        

   

  RESOURCES AND THEIR USE

  
  Dairy Farming in New Zealand

  
  1. What are New Zealand's farming resources?

  • Renewable and non renewable resources
  • Perceptions of resources
  • New Zealand’s farming resources
  • The location of farming types in New Zealand

  
  2. In what parts of New Zealand is the selected farming type located?

  • Location of dairy farms in New Zealand
  • Pictographs
  • Stock numbers
  • Fonterra

  
  3. Why is the farming type located here?

  • Reasons for location of dairy farms in New Zealand: natural factors (relief, soil, climate) & cultural factors (accessibility, history, perception)

  
  4. What farming resources do these areas have in common?

  • Natural and cultural factors that dairy farming areas have in common
  • Cartoon interpretation
  • Aerial photographs
  • Precis maps from aerial photographs

  
  5. How does the farming system operate?

  • How does a dairy farm operate
  • Dairy farms as a system
  • Seasonal work cycles

  
  6. Who controls the use of the farming resources?

  • Operating Structures (owner operators, share-milkers, contract milkers)
  • Farmers
  • Banks, accountants, ministry of agriculture and fisheries, veterinary services, regional councils, contractors, A.I specialists, research institutions, agricultural retail firms, New Zealand Dairy Board

  
  7. What kinds of environmental problems have arisen from the farming type?
  What measures have been taken to solve them?

  • Problems for the natural environment- pollution of the air, soil, water and noise, pests and noxious weeds

  
  8. How is this farming type an example of the use of renewable resources?

  • How dairy farming is an example of the use of a renewable resource

   

  Research Assignment

  • Research methodology
  • Tally systems
  • Important Geographic Ideas
  • Field work

  ·         “Local Diary Farm Visit” Cryer Farm, Karaka

   

   

  Gold mining in New Zealand

  
  1. What are New Zealand’s mineral resources?

  • New Zealand’s mineral resources
  • Gold mining- a non renewable resource
  • Scattergraphs
  • World’s Gold deposits
  • Uses and properties of gold
  • How people perceive the use of gold through time
  • Maori and gold
  • Photograph interpretation

  
  2. In what parts of New Zealand is Gold mining located?

  • In what parts of New Zealand is gold mined

  
  3. Why is the mining activity located there?

  • Processes forming Gold
  • Cultural factors important in the distribution of Gold mines

  
  4. How does the system of mineral extraction operate?

  • Exploration and Extraction
  • Opencast mines (Martha Mine)
  • Underground mines (Favona Mine)
  • Milling the Gold
  • Waste management
  • Gold mining as a system (systems diagram)

  
  5. What kinds of environmental problems have arisen from the mining activity and what measures have been taken to solve them?

  • Air pollution
  • Water pollution
  • Damage to landscape
  • Threat to plants and animals
  • Waste materials
  • Conflicts between the mining industry, conservationists and Maori
  • Rehabilitation of the mine

  
  6. How is this mining activity an example of the use of a non-renewable resource?

  • Gold mining as an example of a non renewable resource