Main Focus

• The characteristics of two regions of a country and their similarities and differences.

Secondary Focus

• The issues that arise from people’s interaction with their environments.
• The physical and human features that give rise to the country’s distinctive characteristics and regional variety.
• The ways in which a country may be judged to be more or less developed.
• The reasons for the location, growth and nature of settlement.

GCSE

Main Focus

• Understand the significance and effects of the different ways in which decisions are made about the use and management of environments.
• Develop awareness of the ways in which people interact with their environments and appreciate the opportunities, challenges and constraints that face people in different places.

Secondary Focus

• Acquire knowledge and understanding of a range of places, environments, spatial patterns and distributions at a range of scales from local to global, and understand the physical and human processes which affect their development.

• Managing Natural Environments: landscape systems; drainage basin systems; people and ecosystems.
• The Impact of Economic Change: economic growth and decline.

Scotland: Standard Grade

Intermediate Geography

• People and the Environment (Global Issues): development and health; environmental hazards.

Higher Geography

• Atmosphere: climatic maps, diagrams and graphs.
• Lithosphere: main landscape features.
• Population geography: population data; migration.
• Rural geography: land use data and crop yields.
• Industrial geography: old and new industries; employment surveys.
• Applications: rural land resources; rural land degradation; river basin management.