Geography · KS3 to A Level · £4.99
Geography
Key Terms
Every word a geography department teaches, Year 7 to A Level, in one A4 book. Each key stage gets its own pages: the terms grouped the way they are taught rather than alphabetically, a definition that fits on two lines, and a worked example beside almost every one. Each key stage opens on one invented map extract, annotated — map and fieldwork skills, the one thing every other band in the book is read or measured through — and the numbers on it appear again beside the same words in the list; a further twelve pages carry a real drawn figure wherever a picture genuinely teaches faster than a sentence: a river's long profile, the headland sequence, a plate boundary, a population pyramid, a storm hydrograph. Then a page on using the words: the ones the assessment itself is written in, the false friends that mean something else in a geography classroom — a basin is not a sink, a delta is not a Greek letter, scale is not fish skin — the same point written weakly and then properly, and what each word becomes at the next key stage.
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A pupil who knows a word is not yet using it. This book is built around that gap. The words for each key stage sit in the groups they are taught in, each with a short definition and a worked example, and a marked word is one the pupil meets again at the next key stage, so a department can see where its vocabulary carries forward and where it changes name. Every key stage opens on one annotated map, because band one is always map and fieldwork skills — grid reference, scale, contour, symbol, key and relief at Key Stage 3; a six-figure reference, gradient and cross-section at GCSE; a choropleth, an isoline and spatial pattern at A Level — and twelve further pages carry a real drawn figure wherever the idea is genuinely easier to see than to read: a meander's erosion and deposition sides, the cave-arch-stack-stump sequence, a glaciated valley's cross-section, a demographic transition curve, the concentric rings of an urban model.
Every key stage closes on a page about using the words. The words the assessment is written in, quoted from Ofqual where they are theirs — and GCSE Geography carries four assessment objectives, not the three most subjects share. The false friends: scale, basin, delta, bar, resource, sustainable, resilience, threshold, each a word a pupil already owns in another sense, contrasted with what it actually means here. The same point written weakly and then properly. And a table of what each habit is called at the next stage, so "naming a landform" at GCSE is already "explaining its formation as a sequence of named processes" by the time it is assessed at A Level. Nothing a board decides for itself is in it, and no map is real: every map, cross-section and graph was drawn for the book.
- Written to
- The DfE's national curriculum programmes of study for geography at Key Stage 3, the Geography GCSE subject content (April 2014, DFE-00345-2014) including its appendix on mathematics and statistics in geography, and the GCE AS and A level subject content for geography (DFE-00693-2014) with its own annex of quantitative skills; both GCSE and A Level also follow Ofqual's subject-level conditions, which set the assessment objectives quoted on the words-at-work pages; 161 of 288 terms appear by name in one of those documents and the cover says so, the rest are standard geographical vocabulary defined here in plain English; no awarding body is named, and nothing a board decides for itself appears in the A Level pages
- Intended for
- geography departments: printed one per pupil, kept in the front of an exercise book, or put on the wall by key stage
- Extent
- 14 pages · 13 sections
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