CIE GCSE Geography Theme 1 - entire unit of work (lessons and resources)

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• Reasons for the rapid increase in the world’s population.
• Causes and consequences of over-population and under-population.
• Understand the main causes of a change in population size.
• A country which is overpopulated and a country which is under-populated.
• Reasons for contrasting rates of natural population change
• Case study of a country with high rate of natural population growth and a country with a low rate of population growth (or decline).
• Population policies (one child policy)
• Population structure and population pyramids
• Migration
• A case study of international migration
• settlement patterns
• site and situation
• settlement hierarchy
• Population threshold /sphere of influence
• Problems in urban areas
• Urban Sprawl
• Regeneration
• Causes and impacts of urbanisation (push and pull)
• Case studies: settlement hierarchy (Manchester), problems in urban areas (Manchester), Urbanisation (Rio)