St Columba's Hosts Renfrewshire heats for Worldwise

Teams from six local schools will compete in the Renfrewshire heats of the Worldwise Quiz, organised by SAGT on Thursday 1st March. They are

St Columba's School
Barrhead High
Mearns Castle
Gryffe High
Greenock Academy
Gleniffer High

Schools may send as many teams as they wish; each team comprises three pupils, from second, third and fourth year. All schools will be represented by two teams on Thursday. The first, elimination heat of the afternoon is team based, with the best four teams going through to the second and final heat. Questions test general knowledge, eg about geography in the news' capitals; rivers; famous cities; travel; well known features.

S4Homework Reminder

Homework for Tuesday 6th February

1. Complete summary of article on green belt
2. Read Human Environments chapter 1-answer Credit questions,nos.1-7 p.9
3. Urban Test on Monday 12th

Topics to revise:

site of town
function of town-eg ports, market towns, industrial towns
recognising, describing and comparing land use in grid squares
(eg distinguish CBD, old and new housing, greenbelt, shopping centres, industrial zones)
urban problems:-derelict land, run down housing, unemployment, traffic congestion; threat to greenbelt
urban regeneration, eg London Docklands, Glasgow waterfront, Salford Quays, focus on leisure and recretion
Critical thinking-advantages and disadvantages of out of town developement, eg shopping centres, business parks
ways of gathering information about urban areas-questionnaires, interviews, photographs, transects,
ways of processing information-pie charts, bar graphs, scatter graphs, labelled diagrams

Case Studies-London-Docklands developments
Glasgow-growth of a city-how does land use change from the CBD to the edge of town
Bathgate-recognising change through map study-from mining to car manufacture to electronics to transport logistics

Full revision notes are posted in the GeoWiki