Entire unit of work for Environmental systems and societies topic 8.2: resource use in society. Full lessons ready to teach: no extra planning needed. This resource covers: Renewable natural capital can be generated and/or replaced as fast as it is being used. It includes living species and ecosystems that use solar energy and photosynthesis, as well as non-living items, such as groundwater and the ozone layer. • Non-renewable natural capital is either irreplaceable or can only be replaced over geological timescales; for example, fossil fuels, soil and minerals. • Renewable natural capital can be utilized sustainably or unsustainably. If renewable natural capital is used beyond its natural income this use becomes unsustainable. • The valuation of natural capital can be divided into the following two main categories. • The impacts of extraction, transport and processing of a renewable natural capital may cause damage, making this natural capital unsustainable. • Natural capital provides goods (such as tangible products) and services (such as climate regulation) that have value. This value may be aesthetic, cultural, economic, environmental, ethical, intrinsic, social, spiritual or technological. • The concept of a natural capital is dynamic. Whether or not something has the status of natural capital, and the marketable value of that capital varies regionally and over time and is infuenced by cultural, social, economic, environmental, technological and political factors. Examples include cork, uranium and lithium.

Entire unit of work for Environmental systems and societies topic 1.3: energy and equilibria. Full lessons ready to teach: no extra planning needed. Covers: The first law of thermodynamics is the principle of conservation of energy, which states that energy in an isolated system can be transformed but cannot be created or destroyed. • The principle of conservation of energy can be modelled by the energy transformations along food chains and energy production systems. • The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of a system increases over time. Entropy is a measure of the amount of disorder in a system. An increase in entropy arising from energy transformations reduces the energy available to do work. • The second law of thermodynamics explains the in efficiency and decrease in available energy along a food chain and energy generation systems. • As an open system, an ecosystem will normally exist in a stable equilibrium, either in a steady-state equilibrium or in one developing over time (for example, succession), and maintained by stabilizing negative feedback loops. • Negative feedback loops (stabilizing) occur when the output of a process inhibits or reverses the operation of the same process in such a way as to reduce change—it counteracts deviation. • Positive feedback loops (destabilizing) will tend to amplify changes and drive the system towards a tipping point where a new equilibrium is adopted. • The resilience of a system, ecological or social, refers to its tendency to avoid such tipping points and maintain stability. • Diversity and the size of storages within systems can contribute to their resilience and affect their speed of response to change (time lags). • Humans can affect the resilience of systems through reducing these storages and diversity. • The delays involved in feedback loops make it difficult to predict tipping points and add to the complexity of modelling systems.

What it says on the tin - a list of all the past 7 mark questions which have come up on cambridge GCSE Geography paper 1, organised by theme. A great planning and revision resource.

Carrying capacity is the maximum number of a species, or “load” that can be sustainably supported by a given area. It is possible to estimate the carrying capacity of an environment for a given species; however, this is problematic in the case of human populations for a number of reasons. An EF is the area of land and water required to support a defined human population at a given standard of living. The measure of an EF takes into account the area required to provide all the resources needed by the population, and the assimilation of all wastes. EF is a model used to estimate the demands that human populations place on the environment. EFs may vary significantly by country and by individual and include aspects such as lifestyle choices (EVS), productivity of food production systems, land use and industry. If the EF of a human population is greater than the land area available to it, this indicates that the population is unsustainable and exceeds the carrying capacity of that area. Degradation of the environment, together with the consumption of finite resources, is expected to limit human population growth. If human populations do not live sustainably, they will exceed carrying capacity and risk collapse.

A set of guided revision booklets, or a set of workbooks to use in class covering all of Environmental Systems and Societies Unit 2. 47 pages total. Includes RAG grids, diagrams,key terms, questions and instructions on note taking. 2.1: species and populations 2.2 Communities and ecosystems 2.3 Flows of energy and matter 2.4 Biomes, zonation succession 2.4 Investigating ecosystems

Complete set of resources for environmental systems and societies unit 2.1; power point and workbook. Ready to pick up and teach no planning needed. Includes: Ecosystem key terms Population dynamics and limiting factors (J and S curves) Interactions: Predation, herbivory, parasitism, mutualism, disease and competition

Full lessons for IB ESS topic 1: ready to pick up and teach - no extra planning needed. Covers: • Signifcant historical infuences on the development of the environmental movement have come from literature, the media, major environmental disasters, international agreements and technological developments. • An EVS is a worldview or paradigm that shapes the way an individual, or group of people, perceives and evaluates environmental issues, infuenced by cultural, religious, economic and sociopolitical contexts. • An EVS might be considered as a system in the sense that it may be infuenced by education, experience, culture and media (inputs), and involves a set of interrelated premises, values and arguments that can generate consistent decisions and evaluations (outputs). • There is a spectrum of EVSs, from ecocentric through anthropocentric to technocentric value systems.

This is an entire set of resources to teach unit 1 of the new course of IB Diploma Environmental systems and societies (first examination 2026) standard level. This includes presentations, exam questions, group work, independent research, case studies etc. There is no additional planning needed. 1,1 Perspectives 1.1.1 Perspectives and world views 1.1.2 Influences on perspectives and world views 1.1.3 Environmental value systems 1.1.4 Environmental movements 1.2 Systems 1.2.1 Models 1.2.2 Systems approach 1.2.3 Storages and flows 1.2.4 Feedback loops and tipping points 1.2.5 Causal loop diagrams 1.2.6 Resilience 1.3 Sustainability 1.3.1 What is sustainability? 1.3.2 Environmental justice 1.3.3 Sustainability indicators 1.3.4 UN Sustainable Development Goals 1.3.5 Planetary boundaries model 1.3.6 Doughnut economics model 1.3.7. Circular economy

Two sided A3 knowledge organiser, partially completed for revision. Includes detailed diagrams. Complete GCSE rivers unit - CIE but suitable for AQA and edexcel.

Every case study for Cambridge GCSE Geography Theme 2, including all information needed to answer 7 mark questions. An earthquake A volcano The opportunities presented by a river, the hazards associated with it and their management. The opportunities presented by an area of coastline, the hazards associated with An area of tropical forest Deforestation of a tropical rainforest An area of dry desert

All lessons and resources to teach Cambridge International GCSE Rivers. No extra planning needed. Includes: key terms hydrological cycle Erosion Transportation Deposition Upper, middle and lower course landforms Causes of flooding Flood management River case study - hazards, opportunities and management

Full set of high quality resources - powerpoints, print outs, exam questions, skills questions (OS Maps). Ready to pick up and teach - no extra planning needed. Covers: 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)

Entire planned unit of work for Environmental systems and societies, ready to pick up and teach - no extra planning needed. Covers: Demographic tools for quantifying human population include crude birth rate (CBR), crude death rate (CDR), total fertility rate (TFR), doubling time (DT) and natural increase rate (NIR). • Global human population has followed a rapid growth curve, but there is uncertainty as to how this may be changing. • As the human population grows, increased stress is placed on all of the Earth’s systems. • Age–gender pyramids and demographic transition models (DTM) can be useful in the prediction of human population growth. The DTM is a model that shows how a population transitions from a pre-industrial stage with high CBRs and CDRs to an economically advanced stage with low or declining CBRs and low CDRs. • Infuences on human population dynamics include cultural, historical, religious, social, political and economic factors. • National and international develo

Whole set of high quality lessons for Environmental systems and societies unit 1.4 Sustainability Covers: Sustainability Ecological overshoot Ecological foot print Natural capital: goods and services Environmental impact assessments

An end of term Christmas/Geography quiz covering: Christmas Geography Events of 2023 Unusual Geography World food Cultural Geography Currency World landmarks Artists and bands Famous explorers Ten questions for each round, followed by the answers

Whole set of high quality lessons for Environmental systems and societies 1.5 : Humans and Pollution.