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ELIM CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
13 GEOGRAPHY
COURSE OF STUDY 2009
TERM 1-2
1) NATURAL PROCESSES (Coastal environments)
- Defining the coast
- Beach equilibrium
- Classification of coasts
- 14 point grid references
- Calculating slope angles
- Precis Map of Muriwai
- Elements and interactions at Muriwai
- Changing sea levels
- Global Warming and the coastline
- Tsunami
- DVD: Tsunami Killer Wave
- Geological structure of New Zealand’s coastline, Moh’s scale
- Auckland Coastline
- Wave theory
- Refraction, diffraction, deflection
- How waves break
- Wind and waves
- Formation of geomorphological phenomena: cliffs, platforms, Stacks, caves, arches
- Beach sediments
- Gravel beaches & Barriers
- Barrier Islands
- Summer & Winter profiles
- Longshore drift, swash and backwash
- Spits and bars
- Models of coastal systems- sediments budget model, process- response model
- Rips
- Dunes & Aeolian processes
- Aeolian transportation & deposition
- Dun processes at Muriwai
- Tidal Processes
- Distribution of coastal features at Muriwai
- Spatial variation of processes at Muriwai
- Interactions between processes at Muriwai
- Human modification of processes at Muriwai
- Impacts of human modification on features at Muriwai
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Field Trip to Muruwai
TERM 2-3
2) CULTURAL PROCESSES
Operation of Tourism Development
o Key terms: tourist, tourism, tourism development,
o Elements, facilities, attractions, tourists, operators, facilities & infrastructure, regulators,
o Plogs continuum.
o Change & interactions, the cumulative effect.
o Rotorua elements & interactions.
o Gold Coast elements & interactions.
o Precis maps of the Gold Coast and Rotorua
Spatial and temporal variations in Tourism Development
o Concentration & dispersal
o Spatial variations in tourism development: regional, interurban, rural/urban.
o Lundgrew’s Model of a spatial hierarchy of tourist flows
o Model of intra-urban spatial variations
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Reasons for spatial variations in tourism development: Tourist preferences, Tourist attractions, Accessibility, Accommodation, Agglomeration
o Rotorua spatial variations.
o Gold Coast spatial variations.
Factors that have brought about change in Tourism development
o Economic, political, social/cultural, & environmental factors
o Tourism development models
o Factors bringing change in Rotorua
o Factors bringing change in the Gold Coast
o Photograph interpretation
Effects of Tourism Development on people and places
o Economic impacts
o Socio cultural phenomena
o Environmental impacts
o Negative positive graphs
o Maori perspectives on Tourism Development
o Multi-line graphs using two scales.
o Axes graphs.
Achievement Standard 3.7 Global Tourism Development.
o Statistical maps.
o Tourism Development Models.
o Important Geographic Ideas: Processes, patterns, regions.
o Spatial variations in global tourism.
o Processes in Global Tourism
o Significance for people of Global Tourism Development.
Skills: Dot distribution maps, latitude/ longitude, field work, geographic ideas,
survey design, field sketches, triple axes graphs, flow maps, 14 point grid references, calculation of slope angles, satellite photographs, aerial (vertical & oblique) photographs, diagrams & models, cartoons, Isolines, Values continuums, Choropleth maps, Precis maps from Topographic maps, Cross sections, scale, positive/ negative graph, multiple line graph using two scales.
TERM 4
Ø Elim Christian College Internal Examinations
v Revision on skills and key content
v Elim Christian College Internal Examinations
External Examination Date: Wednesday 25 November 2009
Scholarship: Saturday 21 November 2009 |