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Hey Team, How is the study going out there. If you have some questions, ideas or just want to vent your frustration, add a comment to this post. Things at school have been real busy, but I have some time now to add more revision material for you. Keep checking and commenting.

Kia Kaha

I feel some podcasts coming on - any requests?

I went along to the exhibition that Roy and Lynn talked about in class —> It is fantastic! The exhibition features HEAPS of large-scale aerial photos showing crazy things happening in the world. They have blocked off a lane of The Strand (where all the bars and restaurants are) and set up the photos with interesting captions and facts - as well as lighting for night-time viewing. It would make a great free family outing - day or night.

It would count as revision if you went with geography goggles on. Think about the ‘Important Geographic Ideas’ and the natural and cultural processes you can see in the photos. My favourite was one taken in Chile. It shows lush pasture with grazing animals minding their own business, but menacing black sand dunes are rolling in and slowly but surely claiming the arable land with the process of desertification.

Welcome to Tauranga Arts Festival 2007

Here are some interactive quizzes to help you revise our Population topic. There are puzzles here about population patterns and processes in New Zealand and in Monsoon Asia. They will be of great help when studying for the Year 11 NCEA Geography Exam. Enjoy!

Click Here for Population Studies revision activities

—This post contains Student Answers— 

In pairs develop an answer to the following question:

Choose TWO different countries in Monsoon Asia, explain how and why their populations are changing, and outline the issues related to these changes.

Submit you answer as a comment to this post so that it can be marked. Having a range of marked essays for you to view will be of great help for your revision.

Some things to include:

• A country with a aged dependency and a country with youthful dependency.
• Details about the rate of growth
• Reference to the Demographic Transition Model
• Description AND EXPLANATION

This is the most up-to-date information about New Zealand’s fertility rate for our New Zealand Population unit. Is natural increase below replacement level really an issue?

NZ needs family friendly policies to boost population

Hi Team, today we will do a little detective work. I have created a template to record the past few years of the NZQA Y11 Geography exam questions. Right-click on the grid below to get the template in a new window. Open another tab and go to NZQA. See if you can complete the table to show what questions have recently been asked about our topics. Good luck.