Monday, 1 October 2007

EOY Exam: Hints

For those of you who have lost the handout I gave out with the list of chapters and sections to emphasise on for the exams (frankly, I'm not surprised if some of you don't even know what I'm talking about), I'm repeating the list here:

Chapter 1: About Geography
• What the study of Geography is about (pgs. 4–5)
• Physical and human environment (pg. 6)

Chapter 2: Earth as Our Home
• Earth as part of the Solar System (pgs. 16–19)
• Earth – Our Provider (pgs. 22–25)

Chapter 3: Physical and Human Environments
• Differences between physical and human environment* (pgs. 30–31)
• Inter-relationships between people and the environment* (pgs. 32–36)
• Case Study: Way of life of the people living in Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea, compared to the way of life of people living in Singapore* (pgs. 37–41)

Chapter 4: Environments Through Maps
• Latitudes and Longitudes (pgs. 49 – 50)
• Reading topographical maps* (pgs. 56–67)

Chapter 7: Landforms and Rocks
• Structure of the Earth, and how it is being shaped (pgs. 90–91)
• Fold mountains and their formation* (pgs. 101 –102)
• Types of rocks (pgs. 103–105)
• Weathering & erosion* (pgs. 109–112)

Chapter 8: Rivers
• Hydrologic cycle* (pgs. 120–121)
• River systems (pgs. 122–123)
• Rivers and people: Energy* (pgs. 132–133)

Chapter 9: Weather and Climate
• Factors affecting weather and climate (e.g, latitude, altitude)
• Elements of weather and climate* (temperature, rainfall and wind), and how we measure them. (pgs. 142–151)
• Different climatic types (pg. 153)
• Reading climographs* (pg. 153)

Chapter 10: Natural Vegetation
• Relationship between climate and natural vegetation (pgs. 160–161)
• Tropical rainforest and its structure* (pgs. 164–165)
• Case Study: Bukit Timah Nature Reserve* (pgs. 166–169)
• Vegetation of the tropical savannah (pgs. 174–175)
• Natural vegetation and people (pg. 181)

10 comments:

Unknown said...

Mr Kwan, can you provide us with the info. of the life in Irian Jaya? You said there's gonna be a question on it but textbook didn't provide. Thanks!

Mr Kwan said...

lovelygirl:

http://1e-geography.blogspot.com/2007/10/where-is-irian-jaya.html

=)

Unknown said...

Thank-ka-you for your help =) But actually...-.- U said there's gonna be a question on the comparisonof life in Irian Jaya and Singapore... So i kinda was asking for the life in Irian Jaya, not where it is.. Or does it come out where it is? What do we even say? How do we compare... Ahhh Mr Kwan please help!!!

Mr Kwan said...

lovelygirl:

http://1e-geography.blogspot.com/2007/10/new-guinea-and-singapore.html

=)

DarrenLim said...

O.o so many
thks for puting dis up
i read it twice le
1. was i went n see wat the blog was about den watch video it was nice but nid to bluff ><"
2.JUST THE DAY BE4 THE EXAM!
i relli go n read it coz i dun wan to fail T_T lolz
just a comment next time ur blog dun hav so many links
i spend lots of time to read it as many many many.....links
k i go slp le nid enuff slp ltr cannot concentrete>dun noe how to spell><"
thks i noe alot ppl will lyk it^^
also at all u sites.....

DarrenLim said...

btw i am quite suprise as how u noe i lost the handout >>>>>>>LOLZ!!! i relli lost it but lucky u post it ....................to u n also helping everyone to say dis >>>>>>>>>A BIG THKZ!

DarrenLim said...

btw i dun think other ppl will believe dat i study but IT IS REAL
but i suspect dat chey said he stop playin com do u believe it?
if he stop playin com i jump down the building^^

DarrenLim said...

i hav learn chapter 1~9+ but for the other half of chapter 9 n 10 i cant get it in my head!
will there be lots of question on those chapter?
I DUN WAN TO DIE><"

Anonymous said...

LOL. If chey stop playing computer games i laugh ar! ahah

Unknown said...

Darren dun spam here lehss. For comments only, not tagboard.