Table of Contents

• Objectives
• Living with our physical environment
  • M1: Opportunities and Risks – Is it rational to live in hazard-prone areas?
  • M2a: Managing Rivers and Coastal Environments I – A continuing challenge (Rivers)
  • M2b: Managing Rivers and Coastal Environments II – A continuing challenge (Coasts)
• Facing changes in the human environment
  • M3: Changing Industrial Location – How and why does it change over space and time?
  • M4: Building a Sustainable City – Are environmental conservation and urban development mutually exclusive?
• Confronting global challenges
  • M5: Combating Famine – Is technology a panacea for food shortage?
  • M6: Disappearing Green Canopy – Who should pay for the massive deforestation inrainforest regions?
  • M7: Global Warming – Is it fact or fiction?
• Elective modules
  • E1: Dynamic Earth: the building of Hong Kong
  • E2: Weather and Climate
  • E3: Transport Development, Planning and Management
  • E4: Regional Study of Zhujiang (Pearl River) Delta

Full Table of Contents

HKDSE Geography : Core Module 1 - Opportunities and Risks: Is It Rational to Stay in Hazard-Prone Areas? Internal Processes The Earth's Layers · Plates · Folding · Faulting · Intrusive Vulcanicity · Extrusive Vulcanicity Plate Boundaries Destructive (Continental-Continental  · Continental-Oceanic · Oceanic-Oceanic) · Constructive · Conservative Tectonic Hazards Distribution · Formation · Impacts · Factors Affecting Power · Measures · Effectiveness of Measures Stay-Leave Decisions Reasons for Stay · Perception of Risks

HKDSE Geography : Core Module 2 - Managing Rivers and Coastal Environments: A Continuing Challenge I (Rivers) Drainage Basins Water Cycle · Fluvial Morphometry* · River Channels and Flow · Fluvial Processes · Hydrographs and Flooding Fluvial Landforms Erosional Landforms (upper course) · Meandering (middle and lower courses)† · Depositional Landforms (lower course) Humans and Rivers Human Activities · Human Impacts on Rivers · Hard Management · Soft Management *Refers to 'attributes' like drainage pattern, stream order and so on. † Meandering involves both erosion and deposition.

HKDSE Geography : Core Module 2 - Managing Rivers and Coastal Environments: A Continuing Challenge II (Coasts) Coasts Sea Level · Waves · Coastal Processes · Factors Affecting Coastal Processes Coastal Landforms Erosional Landforms · Depositional Landforms · Other Landforms Humans and Coasts Human Activities · Human Impacts on Coasts · Hard Management · Soft Management

HKDSE Geography : Core Module 3 - Changing Industrial Location: How and Why Does It Change Over Space and Time? Industrial Location Manufacturing System · Classification of Manufacturing · Site Factors · Situation Factors · Industrial Agglomeration, Industrial Inertia and Footloose Industries Hong Kong's Manufacturing Industry Historical Development · Factors Behind Industrial Relocation · Responses to Industrial Relocation China's Iron and Steel Industry Before 1950s · 1950s-70s · 1980s-2000s · Recent Developments The US IT Industry R&D Stage · Production Stage · Recent Developments Industrial Relocation Impacts · Responses

HKDSE Geography : Core Module 4 - Sustainable City: Is It A Possible Solution? Urban Development Factors Behind Urban Development · Urban Development Cycle · Other Urban Processes  · Land Use · Land Use Structure Urban Problems Housing Problems · Transport Problems · Environmental Problems · New Urban Problems and Conflicts Sustainability Urban Planning · Urban Renewal · New Town Development · Pollution Control · Waste Treatment and Reduction · Major Works Projects · Transport Development · Environmental Preservation  · Land Use Control  · Other Measures

HKDSE Geography : Core Module 5 - Combating Famine: Is Technology a Panacea for Food Shortage? Famines World Distribution of Famines · Factors Affecting Food Supply The Farming System Types of Agriculture · Physical Factors · Cultural Factors Nomadic Herding in The Sahel Farming Inputs · Characteristics · Recent Challenges Irrigation Farming in Southern California Farming Inputs in Southern California · Characteristics · Recent Challenges Farming Technology Effectiveness · Negative Impacts · Biotechnology · Sustainable Agriculture · Other Solutions

HKDSE Geography : Core Module 6: Disappearing Green Canopy – Who should pay for the massive deforestation in rainforest regions? Tropical Rainforests (TRFs) Climate · Soil · Vegetation · Microclimate · Animals and Micro-Organisms TRFs as Ecosystems Trophic Levels · Energy Flow · Nutrient Cycle · Responses to Disturbances Human Activities Agriculture · Natural Resource Extraction · Settlement · Tourism · Underlying Causes Impacts of Deforestation Local Climate and Hydrosphere · Global Climate · Lithosphere · Biosphere · Economy · Society Solutions to Deforestation Measures · Stakeholders

HKDSE Geography : Core Module 7 - Global Warming: Is it Fact or Fiction? Radiation Budget Heat Transfer · Factors Affecting Insolation · Temperature · Global Temperature Distribution Causes of Global Warming Greenhouse Gases · Human Factors · Natural Factors in Global Warming Impacts of Global Warming Climate · Sea Level · Ecosystems · Food Supply · Public Health · Other Impacts Solutions to Global Warming Alternative Energy Sources · Energy Efficiency · Individual Action · Afforestation · International Cooperation

HKDSE Geography : Elective 1 - Dynamic Earth: The Building of Hong Kong Rock Cycle Igneous Rocks · Sedimentary Rocks · Metamorphic Rocks · Physical Weathering · Chemical Weathering · Mass Movement Hong Kong's Landscape Rock Type and the Landscape · Internal Processes and the Landscape · External Processes and the Landscape · Human Activities and the Landscape · Geological Maps Geological Resources Mining · Reclamation Materials · Geological Tourism and Education Geological Hazards Causes of Landslides · Solutions to Landslides

HKDSE Geography : Elective 2 - Weather and Climate World Climate Radiation · Factors Affecting Air Pressure · Air Pressure and Winds · Relative Humidity · Types of Precipitation and Rainfall · Factors Affecting Rainfall · Major World Climates Hong Kong's Climate Seasons and Monsoon · Anticyclones · Cyclones · Fog China's Climate Overall Distribution · Latitude and Climate · Distance from the Sea · Relief and Climate Climatic Hazards Causes of Droughts · Impacts of Droughts · Solutions to Droughts · Causes of Sandstorms · Impacts of Sandstorms · Solutions to Sandstorms

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