Geography Year 9 | Rye College

What our students will learn in Year 9

We build on our Year 7 and 8 knowledge examining ideas of globalisation, sustainability and development. Students revisit the rainforests, India and China and look at more landscapes that have been created by tectonic and physical processes.
We start to look forward to the GCSE course, covering key ideas about Living with the Physical Environment, The Challenges of the Human Environment and Geographical Applications.

Our termly overview

Term	Topic	Content Overview	Vocabulary	Vocabulary
1 & 2	Tectonics – The Challenge of Natural Hazards	Developing an understanding of how tectonic activity creates earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis. Examining the Social, economic and environmental effects of hazards. Distribution of plate margins Causes of earthquakes and volcanoes Case studies of earthquakes: Nepal and New Zealand Case studies of volcanoes: Mt Agung, Bali and Mt Kilauea, Hawaii Japan Tsunami	Natural Hazard Natural Disaster Earthquake Volcano Pangea Continental Drift Lithosphere Mountain Belt Mid-Ocean Ridges Ocean Trenches Plate Tectonics Destructive Constructive Conservative Plate Boundaries	Magma Main Shock Seismic Waves Prediction Preparation Protection Shield Volcano Composite Volcano Active Dormant Extinct Prediction Planning Protection
3 & 4	Changing Populations	Developing an understanding of the growth of urbanisation across the globe Challenges faced by megacities both rich and poor Rural to Urban migration Mega Cities London – Challenges and opportunities Fieldwork - Urbanisation	Population Population Growth Census Population Distribution Population Density Sparsely Populated Densely Populated Birth Rate Death Rate Natural Increase and Decrease Industrialised Demographic Transition Model Population Pyramid Gender	Development Prediction Proportion Underpopulation Overpopulation Policy Migrant Migration Immigrant Voluntary Migrants Forced Migrants Refugees Push and Pull Factors Deported Illegal Migration Urbanisation Rural-To-Urban Migration
5 & 6	South America – the continent that has it all!	Developing their understanding of all previous units using examples found in the continent of South America Geography of South America The Amazon River Economic Challenges The Amazon Rainforest Issues with Resources Earthquakes and Volcanoes Links with Africa Urbanisation	Physical Environmental Human Drainage Bain Landforms Long Profile El Nino Inca Trail Machu Picchu Fold Mountain Biodiversity Deforestation Carbon Sink Megacity Challenge Opportunity	Rural Urban Migration Planning Protection Prediction Monitoring Lahar GNI HDI Birth Rate Death Rate Urban Inequalities Slums Community Despair Hope Beacon Social Economic Challenges