Which elective do you think is best to do for Geography...?

Clearl · 03-10-2010 12:11am #1

You know the very last option on the exam- You can choose from Culture, Atmosphere, Geneolgy (sp? The one on soils...), Global interdependence etc. What would you recommend?

dambarude · 03-10-2010 12:16am

I'd say geoecology. Most people do this one so information on it could be easily gathered. It's also fairly confined, there are only a few questions they can ask really. It's not the most interesting stuff, but it's very manageable.

wayhey · 03-10-2010 5:24pm

You're thinking of the Option, not the Elective (that's Economic or Human).

I did Geoecology. It boils down to Soils (how they're made, different profiles, types, their benefits... really really boring but it's not complicated) and the Biome, divided into Characteristics and the Human Impact (study of a region with 3 or 4 of the following characteristics: Climate, Soils, Animals, Plants. Most do 4, it's easier than getting specific on 3).

I did the desert biome last year for example, Characteristics (why it's hot, how it's animals/plants survive, how its soil developed) and then Human Impact (overagriculture in Africa, the desert spreading, etc.)

Maybe some people find it boring but it's my favourite part of the Geography course and worth about 12.5% I think. If you like nature documentaries you'll like it.

Clearl · 03-10-2010 10:31pm

wayhey wrote: »

You're thinking of the Option, not the Elective (that's Economic or Human).

I did Geoecology. It boils down to Soils (how they're made, different profiles, types, their benefits... really really boring but it's not complicated) and the Biome, divided into Characteristics and the Human Impact (study of a region with 3 or 4 of the following characteristics: Climate, Soils, Animals, Plants. Most do 4, it's easier than getting specific on 3).

I did the desert biome last year for example, Characteristics (why it's hot, how it's animals/plants survive, how its soil developed) and then Human Impact (overagriculture in Africa, the desert spreading, etc.)

Maybe some people find it boring but it's my favourite part of the Geography course and worth about 12.5% I think. If you like nature documentaries you'll like it.

Thanks, where or what books did you get the information to do it from???

wayhey · 03-10-2010 11:59pm

I'll have to check for you but I think it was "Today's World" for the desert (and possibly the soils, including the brown earth soil profile)... we used the "ECO" textbook in school but that didn't cover it. The desert's great for characteristics, but that was a question this year. I'm going to do the rainforest repeating - it covers both human impact and characteristics pretty well. I haven't seen yet where that's covered but if I do this week I'll let you know.

I bumped up any notes my teacher gave me with my own research on animals/plants etc. There's loads of info out there, be it BBC documentaries or the Internet.