Summary:
Geography for Common Entrance is an authoritative textbook preparing pupils for the Independent Schools Examination Board's Common Entrance Geography examination. It is endorsed by ISEB.
 

This second edition has been comprehensively updated and revised for the new syllabus with new case studies and additional support for revision and exam preparation. The book covers the thematic content of the course providing one unit for each theme. Each theme is explored using an enquiry-based approach: stimulating activities and real-life case studies provide in-depth investigation to challenge pupil's thinking and deepen their understanding. All case studies have been rewritten and updated to provide opportunities for pupils to fully engage with topical issues such as sustainable development, globalisation and hazards.

Each themed unit is structured in four parts:
- An introduction to the theme based on pupils' everyday experience of geography.
- Systematic coverage of all the key geographical ideas and syllabus content that are needed to understand the theme.
- Case Studies provide two or three enquiries in each unit using real places at a range of global, national and local scales.
- A 'test yourself' quiz ends each unit


A revision section at the end of the book gives structured advice on revision practice and exam strategies. The associated Teacher's Resource Book has also been updated for the new syllabus to provide extensive support for all units.


A companion volume, Map Skills for Common Entrance Geography and Key Stage 3 covers the map skills section of the syllabus and provides practice in using Ordnance Survey Maps at 1:25,000 and 1:50,000 scales and interpreting aerial photographs.


The Author
John Widdowson is the author of the award winning Key Stage 3 series Earthworks, from which this book is adapted. Advisors Paul Baker, is an experienced examiner and former head of Geography at the Dragon School, Oxford. Fiona Langridge, Common Entrance Chief Setter for the Geography examination, and Deputy Head and Head of Geography at Wentworth College, Bournemouth. Simon M. Lewis is Geography Editor for ISEB and Head of Geography at St. Andrew's School in Woking.

• Endorsed by ISEB

• Prepared in collaboration with Fiona Langridge, Chair of Setters for ISEB’s Common Entrance Geography Examination and Head of Geography at Wentworth College, Bournemouth.
• Comprehensively covers the thematic content of the CE Geography syllabus
• Full differentiation including plenty of extension work
• Acclaimed enquiry-based approach helps pupils focus on the material
• Stimulating activities and real-life case studies
• Teacher’s Resource Book provides extensive support for all the tasks
• ICT tasks and extended assignments are included throughout
• In-depth investigations and purposeful tasks challenge pupils

Table of Contents:
Geography for Common Entrance Pupil Book Second Edition
Contents
UNIT 1 Geomorphological Processes Coasts, Rivers and Ice
Is your school breaking up?
Shaping the landscape
Changing coastline
Rivers shape the land
The power of ice
Case Study
What can you see beside the sea?
Cliff collapse!
How does a river change along its course?
Why did New Orleans drown?
UNIT 2 Weather and Climate
Here is the weather forecast . . .
Weather check
Microclimates
Rainfall and the water cycle
Weather and climate in the British Isles
How does the water cycle work?
Case Studies
Why is the Lake District so wet?
What is happening to the rain in Spain?
UNIT 3 Settlement
Who needs neighbours?
Settlement sites . . . and shapes
Settlements and their functions
Shops and services
Patterns in cities
Case Studies
Why did London grow?
What services can you find?
How will the 2012 Olympics change London?
Can we make cities more sustainable?
UNIT 4 Economic Activities
Fancy a job in football?
Resources and economic activities
Locations for manufacturing industry
Globalisation
Case Studies
What work can you find in Reading?
Where should a new car plant be built?
What is the real price of a pair of jeans?
UNIT 5 Environmental Issues
Conflict in the park!
National Parks
Protecting the rural environment
The rainforest ecosystem
Case Studies
Do we need another national park?
Is the rainforest sustainable?
Tourism – can we carry on like this?
UNIT 6 Tectonic Processes Earthquakes and Volcanoes
The world’s worst disaster?
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Case Studies
Where do earthquakes and volcanoes happen?
Is Indonesia the most dangerous country on Earth?
Ready for the Big One?
REVISE!
How to . . . revise for the exam
Answers to Test yourself questions
Glossary
Index

About the Author(s):
The Author
John Widdowson is the author of the award winning Key Stage 3 series Earthworks, from which this book is adapted.

Contributors:
Advisors Paul Baker, is an experienced examiner and former head of Geography at the Dragon School, Oxford. Fiona Langridge, Common Entrance Chief Setter for the Geography examination, and Deputy Head and Head of Geography at Wentworth College, Bournemouth. Simon M. Lewis is Geography Editor for ISEB and Head of Geography at St. Andrew's School in Woking.