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    St. Francis Xavier's College


    Course Outline for F.2 Geography (2023-2024)
    Cycle Topic Teaching Objectives Assignment
    1 TEXTBOOK: Living with  Introduction of F.2 Geography Pre-lesson: News
    Natural Hazards  Definition of natural hazards research and
     Global distribution of some natural hazard sharing
    2 First Hazard - Typhoons  Understand the difference between weather and climate - Workbook
    3  Learn how to read the weather charts and describe the weather - MySmartSTE
    4 conditions shown AM -RIVERs
     Understand the formation, causes and impacts of typhoons of Zambia
    Geographical terms / concepts:
    Elements of weather / Temperature / Precipitation / Air pressure /
    Hectopascal (hPa) / Wind direction / Wind speed / Relative humidity
    / Cloud amount / Weather chart / Fog / Snow / Showers / Drizzle /
    Thunderstorm / Isobar / Calm / Subtropical monsoon climate /
    Climatic graph / Onshore wind / Offshore wind / Pressure system /
    Convection / Tropical cyclone
    5 Second Hazard – Slope  Identifying relief features - Map Reading
    6 Failure  Calculation of slope gradient book
    7  Understand the formation, causes and impacts of landslides - Unit Summary
    - Workbook
    - Assignment I

    8 Third Hazard –  Understand the formation, causes and impacts of earthquakes - MySmartSTEA
    Earthquakes  Learn the preventive and remedial measures to reduce their impacts M – Gliding
    Geographical terms / concepts: Across the
    9 Tectonic hazard / Crust / Mantle / Core / Plate movement / Plate Gobi
    boundary / Convection currents / Seismic wave / Focus / Epicentre / - MySmartSTEA
    Depth of focus / Earthquake zone / Circum-Pacific Belt / M – Living
    Alpine-Himalayan Belt / Richter scale / Modified Mercalli scale / with a Volcano
    Aftershock / Primary effect / Secondary effect / Effect of earthquakes - Unit Summary
    2
    / Seismometers / Shock-proof / Evacuation route / Emergency - Workbook
    assistance

    10 6.1 How and Why do the  The relation between the Level of Development and the Level of
    effects of natural hazards Destruction and Recovery Speed
    vary among countries with  Factors affecting the Level of Destruction and Recovery Speed
    different levels of economic  Factors affecting people’s decisions: Locational Advantages and
    development? Locational Disadvantages
    6.2 Why do people still
    choose to live in areas
    affected by natural hazards?
    Exam Period + Discussion of Paper
    11 Paper Checking  Understand the process of the water cycle Unit Summary
    12 TEXTBOOK: The Trouble  Understand the global distribution of water resources
    Workbook
    13 with Water  Understand the causes and impacts of flooding and drought in China
    14  Understand the measures taken to alleviate the drought in China Interpretation of
    15 Climate Graph
    16 Geographical terms / concepts: MySmartSTEAM –
    17 Water cycle / Transpiration / Precipitation / Interception / One Village makes
    18 Infiltration / Evaporation / Condensation / Surface runoff / a Difference
    Groundwater / River basin / Drainage basin / Watershed / Amazon Pre lesson: Study of
    19
    River Basin / Tributary / Ridge / Upper course / Middle course / China’s Weather
    20
    Lower course / Cross section / Long profile / River source / River (http://www.weat
    month / Chang Jiang / Huang He / Zhu Jiang / Glacier / Onshore her.com.cn)
    wind / Monsoon / Typhoon / Water problems / Flooding / Overflow Unit Summary
    / River bank / Drought / Water pollution /Discharge / Property /
    Infrastructure / Outbreak / Hydro-electric power (HEP) /Deposition
    / Sediment / Deforestation / Impermeable / Concrete / Reclamation
    of lake / Dyke
    3
    18 4.1) What has happened to - Changes in desertified land in China in recent years Pre-lesson task
    the area of desertified in - Mitigation and adaptation measures taken by the Central government to Worksheet 8:
    northern China in recent combat desertification China desertification
    19 years Geographical terms / concepts: control achievement
    4.2) What has been done to Windbreak/ shelter belt/ afforestation/ straw checkerboard/ Post-lesson task
    keep desertification in rotational grazing/ biodiversity/ drip irrigation/ drought-resistant Revision
    20 check? crop/ reforested area/ cash crop/ agribusiness/ ecotourism Worksheets Unit 8
    21 Revision  Map-reading skills - Map reading
     Textbook 4, 5 book

    Exam Revision Buffer

    A. Assessment Mode and Weighting


    Form 2 MySmartSTEAM 5% Form 2 MySmartSTEAM 5%
    1st Term Homework 10% 2nd Term Homework 10%
    Folder-Checking 5% Folder-Checking 5%
    1st Term Regular Test 10% 2nd Term Regular Test 10%
    Exam 70% Exam 70%

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