Elective revision

Chapters 1-7*

Chapter 1: Measuring populations• Population distribution• Population density• Birth rate• Death rate• Four main factors that influence birth rates• Natural increase• Natural decrease• Dependency ratio (and calculate it)• Understand/use population pyramids• Three shapes of population pyramid• Demographic Transition Model• Read over examples: Ireland and France

Chapter 2: Overpopulation• Overpopulation• Carrying capacity• Factors that can increase (6) or decrease (7) carrying

capacity of a region• Three main causes of overpopulation• Overpopulation in Sudan (case study)• Influence of society and culture on overpopulation

(three main factors)• Impact of technology on population growth • Population growth and developing countries

Chapter 3: Migration

• Main migration terms needed (15)• Impact of migration on donor and host

countries• Advantages and disadvantages of

migration• Ethnic, racial and religious issues• Ireland and migration through the years• Migration policy in Ireland and EU• Rural to urban migration

Chapter 4: Settlement• Site• Situation• Function• 4 main settlement patterns on a map• Settlement in Ireland through the eras• Planning for settlement in Ireland (NDP)• Ricepots• Christallers Central Place Theory• Evidence of settlement on an OS Map

Chapter 5: Urban Land Use• Types of land use zone in a city• Ricepots (again)• Land use in Dublin and Paris (case studies)• Burgesses Concentric zone model, draw and

understand• Hoyts Sector theory, draw and understand• Harris and Ullmans Multiple Nuclei theory, draw

and understand• The HARP project in Dublin• Land values in cities including Bid Rent• Social stratification

Chapter 6: Urban problems in developed world cities

• 5 main urban problems• 3 international solutions to traffic congestion• Irelands solutions to traffic congestion• Case studies: Cork and Copenhagen• Urban decay• Absence of community• Urban renewal• Ballymun regeneration case study• Paris redevelopment case study• Urban sprawl

Chapter 7: Heritage issues and environmental quality in urban areas• Air pollution in urban areas• Methods to reduce air pollution