LC Geography

Plate boundaries, sea-floor spreading and the evidence for plate movement.

Landforms and processes at plate boundaries and hotspots.

Formation of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks and their Irish locations.

Mechanical and chemical weathering and the karst landscape of the Burren.

Factors and types of mass movement, from soil creep to landslides.

River erosion, transportation and deposition and the landforms they create.

Wave processes and erosional and depositional coastal landforms.

Glacial erosion, deposition and meltwater landforms in Ireland.

Changes in base level, rejuvenation and raised beaches.

How people influence rivers, coasts and mass movement.

Physical, administrative, cultural, urban and socio-economic regions.

Contrasting a core region (Greater Dublin Area) with a peripheral region (the West of Ireland).

Contrasting a core European region (e.g. the Paris Basin) with a peripheral one (e.g. the Mezzogiorno).

Physical and human processes in a large region such as India or Brazil.

Grid references, scale, area, relief, settlement and land use from maps and photographs.

Interpret and draw graphs and use simple statistics.

Plan, carry out and report fieldwork with hypotheses, data and conclusions.

Economic development, globalisation, multinationals, the EU and environmental impacts.

Population change, migration, settlement and urban geography.

Soils, soil-forming factors and biomes.

Race, language, religion and nationality as dimensions of cultural identity.

Global energy transfer, ocean currents, air masses and climate.

Models of development, trade, debt, aid and sustainable development.

Use key ideas such as place, scale, process, systems, interconnections, spatial distribution and sustainability (Unifying Strand U1–U3).

Plan and carry out an inquiry: question, methods, data, analysis, conclusions and evaluation, with ethics and safety (Unifying Strand; 40% component).

The layers of the atmosphere and how high- and low-pressure systems form and affect Ireland (LO 1.10–1.11).

World climate zones and how climate shapes the soils, plants and animals of Ireland's temperate rainforest (LO 1.12–1.13).

Impacts of climate change on people and places, and responses from mitigation to adaptation (LO 1.14–1.15).

Changing farming and fishing in Ireland and the impact of EU policies such as the CAP and CFP (LO 3.1–3.3).

Patterns of tourism in Ireland and the impacts of mass tourism on a Mediterranean coast (LO 3.4–3.5).

Factors driving globalisation, the EU single market's four freedoms and why multinationals locate in Ireland (LO 3.6–3.8).

GDP, GNI, HDI and GDI, approaches to development and Ireland's humanitarian and development programme (LO 3.9–3.11).

How geography, power and politics interact: superpowers, hard and soft power and territorial disputes (LO 3.12–3.14).