TOPIC 5: REGIONAL FOCAL STUDIES ~ GEOGRAPHY FORM 6
REGIONAL FOCAL STUDIES
1. ENVIROMENTAL FRIENDLY TOURISM
Tourism can be regarded as the movement of people away from home to other places of interests for leisure,...
TOPIC 4: POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT ~ GEOGRAPHY FORM 6
TOPIC 4: POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT ~ GEOGRAPHY FORM 6
POPULATION STUDIES
Population studies is broadly defined as the scientific study of human populations. Major areas studied include broad population dynamics; fertility and...
TOPIC 3: SPACE DYNAMIC ~ GEOGRAPHY FORM 6
WEATHER AND CLIMATE
(a) Difference between weather and climate
There is a slight difference between weather and climate. Weather refers to as the actual state of...
TOPIC 5 : SIMPLE SURVEY AND MAP MAKING ~ GEOGRAPHY FORM 5 & 6
INTRODUCTION TO SURVEYING
Surveying is an art or a science of measuring and recording distances, shape and heights in the field on the earth surface...
TOPIC 2: STUDY OF SOILS ~ GEOGRAPHY FORM 6
CONCEPT OF SOIL AND SOIL PROFILE
Soil appears very complex and thus different scholars (soil scientists) have developed a number of definitions about a soil...
CLIMATOLOGY ~ GEOGRAPHY FORM 5 & 6
WEATHER, CLIMATE AND NATURAL REGIONS
Weather is the atmosphere condition of an area recorded within a short period of time which can be day after...
GLACIATIONS ~ PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY FORM 5 & 6
GLACIATIONS
It appears that roughly every 200 – 250 million years in the earth’s history, there have been major periods of ice activity. Of these...
TOPIC 1 ~ WATER MASSES ~ GEOGRAPHY FORM 6
1.1 GROUND WATERWATER CYCLE
-Rain falls on the earth surface in filtrates (soaks into) the soil– -Some water flows over the surface as overland flow...
STATISTICAL GRAPHS | GEOGRAPHY FORM 5 & 6
TATISTICAL GRAPHS
These are the graphs designed to illustrate values of geographical items by means of lines or bars and in turn allow quantitative analysis.
The...
IMAGE DISPLACEMENTS, SCALE DISTORTION AND PARTS OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS ~ GEOGRAPHY FORM 5 &...
IMAGE DISPLACEMENTS
(PARALLAX)
On some photographs, the images of objects do not appear uprightly vertical as are in real life. They are observed to appear displaced...
TOPIC 2: FIELD RESEARCH STRATEGIES ~ GEOGRAPHY FORM 5
Characteristics of research
Characteristics of research include the following:
Empirical – research is based on direct experience or observation by the researcher.
Logical – research is based...
TOPIC 3: POSITION BEHAVIORS AND STRUCTURE OF THE EARTH ~ PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY FORM 5
GLOBE Is the model of the earth
Earth Is ball of rock partly covered by water, land, air and living organism
Origin of the earth (cosmological...
WAVE ~ PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY FORM 5 & 6
WAVE
WAVE ACTION AND THE FEATURES IT PRODUCES.
-Is the horizontal movement of ocean water, in the movement process it does the following three main works:...
RIVER ~ PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY FORM 5 & 6
RIVER
Mass of water flowing in a natural channel over the earth surface from the high land to low land under the influence of gravity.
TYPES...
PHOTOGRAPHS OVERLAPING, PHOTOGRAMMERTRY, MAP MAKING AND DIAGRAMS SKETCHING ~ GEOGRAPHY FORM 5 & 6
PHOTOGRAPHS OVER LAPPING
It becomes difficult for a single photographic view as a respective photograph to cover the very huge part of land space at...
STATISTICAL MAPS | GEOGRAPHY FORM 5 & 6
STATISTICAL MAPS
As it has been introduced in the chapter one; the numerical data after to have been collected, summarized and analyzed; are presented to...
THEORY OF PLATE TECTONIC ~ PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY FORM 5 & 6
PLATE TECTONIC THEORY (Unifying theory)
It takes the combination of theory of theory of isostasy, continental drift and ocean floor spreading.
According to this theory, the...
THEORY OF ISOSTACY ~ PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY FORM 5 & 6
THEORY OF ISOSTASY
Denudation has been going on the continents where tons and tons of materials are removed from mountains and hills and get deposited...
INTERNAL FORCES ~ PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY FORM 5 & 6
INTERNAL FORCE
Earth movements;
a) Lateral and Vertical movements
Diastrophism: Is the movement of the solid crust (lithosphere which is made up of upper mantle and crust).The movement...
EXTERNAL FORCES ~ PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY FORM 5 & 6
EXOGENETIC FORCES WHICH SCULPTURE THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH
These are external forces. They operate on the surface of the earth.
a) Denudation:
These are destructive forces...