Curriculum Relevance

Programme 1 GCSE

• Car manufacturing location - the factors involved.
• Principles of economic development in disadvantaged regions.
• The unfavourable physical and social factors which can lead to emigration and economic decline.
• The 'multiplier effect' of large-scale projects.

• Schemes for economic development.
• The viability of manufacturing industry.
• The effects of harsh physical environments.

• Hi-tech industrial growth in MEDCs.
• Flexibility of labour within the EU.
• The shifting regional pattern of economic development within Italy - an MEDC.

Scottish Standard Grade

• Factors affecting viability of manufacturing.
• Consequences of economic change.

• Coverage of a European country.

• Physical characteristics of high mountains - distinctive relief and climate in the Alps.
• Importance of glacial landforms and snow cover to winter sports activities.
• The significance of isolation and accessibility in economic development.
• Tourism based on winter sports: the social and environmental costs of success.

• Coverage of an EU country.

• Influence of climate and relief on agricultural development.
• Importance of access to markets and transport costs.
• Traditional life and economic activity in remote regions, and the influence of forces for change.
• Physical and human contrasts between two regions in the same country.

• Factors influencing industrial growth, decline and regeneration.
• Regional characteristics within a country.
• Causes and effects of migration.

• The viability of manufacturing industry.
• Social and environmental consequences of economic change.
• Population structure.
• Trade as a link with other countries.

Scotland

Standard Grade Geography

May support the Study Themes: The Physical Environment; The Human Environment; International Issues in the UK/ Western Europe Areal Context.

Higher Still Geography

May support:

• Intermediate 1 Geography Mandatory Unit: People and the Environment: Europe.
• Intermediate 2 Geography Mandatory Unit: People and the Environment: Europe.
• Higher Geography Mandatory Unit 1: Geography: Core (H) – Physical.
• Higher Geography Mandatory Unit 1: Geography: Core (H) – Human: (a) Population geography; (b) Rural geography; (c) Industrial geography; (d) Urban geography.
• Higher Geography Mandatory Unit 2: Geography: Applications (H), in particular: Group 2 Application (d) Urban change and its management – areal context – two urban concentrations – one from a developed country; (e) European regional inequalities – aerial context – European Union with particular reference to two of its member states, one of which must be the United Kingdom.