geog HL

haloauto

If there's a question on adaptions of plants and animals, I would bring human interference into it.
Say how they adapted before humans messed things up and say how they had to adapt to the changes.

-Kenny-

LivingDeadGirl wrote: »

I'm doing the tropical rainforest biome.

Ok so just talk about the soil and climate of the biome (i presume you know the characteristics of it) it wont just say adaptations it has to be adaptations with like the land or the climate. now one could get 80 marks on it otherwise

haloauto

If you have time draw some diagrams of the soil, animal adaptions etc. to get a few extra marks.

piggies

Killaqueen!!! wrote: »

Well if you know the characteristics of your biome then you should know how to answer a question on how plant and animal life adapt to the biome (as animal life and vegetation are two characteristics of the biome). So just learn some extra SRPs and then you'll have two questions under your belt. And if you have time look at the human aspect of the biome OR something in soils.Good luck

Also, characteristics of a biome came up 3 years ago and then again last year. So if the same pattern occurs, hopefully something from 2007 will come up and 2007 had how animal/plant life adapt.

im thinkn the exact same as you i learned the 3 2007 questions

Saruwatari

Does anyone know what could possibly come up for a question on the Atmosphere-Ocean Environment option? I haven't studied it, but I'm considering cramming it before the exam tomorrow...

Beau x1

Geog prediction from the institute... apparently the teacher wrote the paper ...
Physical - Theory of plate tectonics 2007 Q1b , 2006 Q3c and 2006 Q3b theory plate tec includes earthquates, turkey case study for earthquakes (2008 Q3c), case study for volcano also.
Human - interaction with the rock cycle - natural gas
weathering - freeze thaw action (pt a)
Limestone pavements or stalagtites and stalagmites, the cycle of erosion in a karst region - part a, waterfall, the interaction between human activies and rivers - dam construction
Regional - Multi lingual regions belgium, primary, secondary, economic activites indian sub-continent. Geo-ecology - 2007 Q17 prown earth or arisdisol. and desertification.

piggies

LivingDeadGirl wrote: »

I'm doing the tropical rainforest biome.

im doing that one too.
its basically just the characterisitcs, paragraph on climate, one on soil.
then do a paragraph on the vegetation like you usually would for the normal biome question and add en extra paragraph all about adaptations

eg. - plants have adapted to shed excess water from their branches
quickly to avoid breaking. Some plants have 'drip tips' and grooved
leaves. Others have oily skin that repels water.

- plants in the shrub layer have adapted to absorb as much sunlight as
possible. Leaves are very large.

- emergent trees grow quickly to catch the light.

- emergent trees also have butress roots which can stretch over 9m in
length to give them extra support in shallow, wet soils.

- majority of trees have smooth, thin barks as they don't need
protection from water loss and freezing temperatures.

- many plants in the emergent layer have aerial roots and are known as
epiphytes. These type of roots absorb moisture from the air. Their
spunge-like layers gather water and soak it up for later use.

- parasitic plants live off nutrients supplied by a host plant or use them for
support. Eg. Lianas have adapted to dark conditions by catching on to
a tree and being lifted up to higher layers of the forest.

Saruwatari

Beau x1 wrote: »

apparently the teacher wrote the paper

And you trust him? Are you banking on his predictions?

Beau x1

Saruwatari wrote: »

And you trust him? Are you banking on his predictions?

A friend told me that, I'm just posting it because it's information all the same.

piggies

for animals, do the same, write a general paragraph about animals present in the biome, then do a paragraph on adaptations:

• camoflauge is the most effective adaptation used by a variety of animals. An effective way of doing so is looking like a leaf which makes the animal hard to see from above. Eg. moths, frogs.
• use of colour to warn other animals that they are dangerous eg. poison arrow frog.
• development of flaps of skin between front and back legs. This allows mammals such as "flying fox" to glide between trees.
• Due to huge competition for food, light, and space, many animals become 'specialised', meaning they eat a specific plant or animal that few others eat. Eg. parrots eat nut and have developed strong beaks to crack shells.

hope this Q comes up!!!

Kournikova

omg that Institute Prediction doesn't look good for me.

Dubs

Beau x1 wrote: »

Geog prediction from the institute... apparently the teacher wrote the paper ...
Physical - Theory of plate tectonics 2007 Q1b , 2006 Q3c and 2006 Q3b theory plate tec includes earthquates, turkey case study for earthquakes (2008 Q3c), case study for volcano also.
Human - interaction with the rock cycle - natural gas
weathering - freeze thaw action (pt a)
Limestone pavements or stalagtites and stalagmites, the cycle of erosion in a karst region - part a, waterfall, the interaction between human activies and rivers - dam construction
Regional - Multi lingual regions belgium, primary, secondary, economic activites indian sub-continent. Geo-ecology - 2007 Q17 prown earth or arisdisol. and desertification.

that would be a horrible horrible paper

Kournikova

I know, I know nothing about the Karst landscape and we never even covered Multi-lingual regions.

zonEEE

Kournikova wrote: »

I know, I know nothing about the Karst landscape (

ah i bet ya do, you must know something about the burren ! since junior cert everytime i see karst or limestone the pen is jumping to the paper about the burren

Kournikova

I have always avoided that section an managed to make it through exams.

Its so boring even though most physical is.

mitzie

Dubs wrote: »

that would be a horrible horrible paper

oh god!!! that would be terrible! :mad:

ImJohn

Great paper CHARACTERISTICS OF A SOIL COMES UP MAYBE!!! :D:D Please god let them be right (I'm sorry guys but I need at least a A2 in this exam and I'm taking massive risks!!)

Known my luck it'll probably be totally different..do you trust your source beau?

btw guys I have nothnig on the Multi-lingual regions either but you can just avoid it.

Kournikova

Knowing my luck Multi-Lingual regions will come up with 2 other nice sections.

zonEEE

A person setting the paper could hardly be teaching a leaving cert geo class in fairness.... like how unfair would that be..

Claypigeon

strongr wrote: »

A person setting the paper could hardly be teaching a leaving cert geo class in fairness.... like how unfair would that be..

T'would be illegal to leak the paper

Kournikova

I know History is set by random teachers submitting questions and the SEC choosing the questions from that selection.

I don't know how other exams are set though.

Dubs

seems like we have another english paper 2 fiasco... quick, alert the Irish Times!

Kournikova

I cant go to bed now since I saw that prediction.

It has made me so stressed.

zonEEE

Claypigeon wrote: »

T'would be illegal to leak the paper

ya but like if a teacher that set the paper was teaching then he would hardly teach his students stuff that wasn't on it, he would only be wasting his own time like. Also he would always be learning towards the exam questions.

Claypigeon

strongr wrote: »

ya but like if a teacher that set the paper was teaching then he would hardly teach his students stuff that wasn't on it, he would only be wasting his own time like. Also he would always be learning towards the exam questions.

Of course there's those reasons also.

Aideen..

Even if that institute prediction is true, there's no guarantee that it will be the actual paper tomorrow. As we know, cause we have to go in on Saturday morning for paper 2, there are a few papers submitted for each subject, and as far as I am aware, the people who have done up the paper don't know if their submitted paper will be the one used until we get the exam tomorrow. But, as said before, if that is the paper that will come up, I'm well screwed too!

Kournikova

Very true.

But that paper is absoluley horrendous.

Claypigeon

Hey guys just doing up a final draft of my Belgian essay (cultural region ) and I'm almost certain there are different names for each cultural group ie the "Wallonians" are actually referred to as Walloons and the Flemish? Or am I just a complete and utter spastic who finds the word Walloon endlessly entertaining and feel the need to include it despite it not being a word?

Kournikova

Out teacher never covered that end of the book.

Does the East-West Germany bit also feature in that section.

Claypigeon

If they are culturally different I guess it might? I don't know!