CAPE GEOGRAPHY UNIT TWO STUDY TIMETABLE

APRIL 23TH –30TH 2020

MODULE ONE: CLIMATE

1. The Atmosphere

2. Global Heat Budget (horizontal and vertical heat transfers, long and short

Wave radiation)

3. Global Factors affecting Insolation

4. Atmospheric Moisture (Humidity, Condensation)

5. Lapse Rates

6. Air Stability and Instability

7. Precipitation (Types, Rainfall, mechanisms of raindrop formation

8. Atmospheric motion (Pressure Gradient, The Coriolis Force, Geostrophic Wind,

Force

9. The Tricellular Model, Rossby Wave and Jet Streams.

10. Air Masses, Fronts, Depressions, Anticyclones, Hurricanes, ITZC)

11. Microclimates (urban, rural, mountain local winds)

12. Climate Change, Global Warming

MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST ON MAY 01ST

MAY 02TH -07TH 2020

VEGETATION AND SOILS

1. Vegetation Types (tropical rainforest, tropical grassland, temperate grassland and northern
coniferous forest)

2. Vegetation variation on a local scale (rock type, altitude, slope angle and drainage)

3. Factors influencing soil formation, soil forming processes, soil properities

4. Soils under Tropical Rainforest and Tropical Grasslands.

5.Soil erosion and conservation

MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST ON MAY 08TH

MAY 09TH -14TH

MODULE TWO: ECONOMIC STRUCTURE

1. Primary, secondary, tertiary, tertiary, quaternary and quinary sectors

2. Reasons for changes in the relative importance of sectors.

ARGICULTURE

1. Modern farming in the EU (CAP)

2. Traditional and Non-traditional agriculture in the Caribbean

3 .Factors influencing farming in the Caribbean and the EU

4. The environmental impact of agriculture including climate change

5. Von Thunen’s Model

MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST ON MAY 15TH

MAY16TH- 21ST

NDUSTRY

1. Factors influencing industrial location

2. Weber’s Model of Industrial Location

3. Terms: deindustrialization, NIDL, globalization outsourcing, off-shoring

4. Approaches to industrial development in the Caribbean

5. Informal Sector

6. The environmental impact of industry

TOURISM

1. Types of tourism, recreation and leisure

2. Factors influencing the growth and changing nature of tourism

3.Island and Mainland Tourism

4. Butler’s Tourism Life Cycle Model

5.Effects of tourism on the environment

MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST ON MAY 22ND

MAY 23RD -28TH

MODULE THREE: DEVELOPMENT AND DISPARITIES IN DEVELOPMENT

Development and under- development

1. Terms: Development, underdevelopment and sustainable development

2. Economic and non- economic indicators of development

Global disparities in development (income, poverty life expectancy, education and gender)

1. Rostow’s Model, Colonialism, Dependency Model

2. SIDS

3. Consequences of global disparities

Regional and local disparities in development

1.Myrdal’s Cumulative Causation Model

2. Friedman’s Core –Periphery Model

Spearman’s Rank Correlation

MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST ON MAY 29TH

PLEASE NOTE

ZOOM SESSION ON 01ST JUNE 2020 TOPIC :INTERPRETATION OF SYNOPTIC CHARTS/MAPS