1. Year 8 Summer Exams

2. Advice Know your target grade
Revise all the work we have covered since September.
Read questions very carefully.
Use the number of marks per question as guidance. A FOUR mark question will mean TWO fully developed points using connectives
Make sure you complete the paper and check your answers for SPaG errors.

3. B.U.G. Exams Box / bubble command words
Underline key points in the Question
B.U.G.
Glance back at the Question

4. You cannot achieve full marks if you do not draw a labelled diagram.
Describe the formation of a headland and bay. (5)
You must use a labelled diagram(s) in your answer.
You can assume 3 marks for written explanation and 2 marks for the labelled diagram
Stages in the formation of headlands and bays
A diagram is essential
You cannot achieve full marks if you do not draw a labelled diagram.

5. Topics to revise Coasts How humans use the coastline
Types of erosion –abrasion, hydraulic action, solution and attrition
Features of erosion- caves, arch, stack and stumps. Bays and headlands
Longshore drift
Features of deposition- spits
Coastal defences – groynes, sea wall, revetments, gabion baskets,
rip rap and beach replenishment

6. Topics to revise Settlement
Settlement hierarchy – hamlet, village, town, city, mega city
Factors influencing the site of a village – water, shelter, defence etc
Settlement services
Land use patterns in towns and cities
Shopping
Settlement functions – seaside resorts, market town, industrial town, port
Village shapes –dispersed, nucleated, linear
Problems of living in towns and cities
How villages change over time.

7. You will be tested on both coasts and settlement.
You have a lot to revise…….
Don’t leave it till the last evening. Plan your revision over a period of time.
You will be tested on both coasts and settlement.

8. Use the following web sites to help you to revise
Doddle
BBC Bite size Key stage 3
Coastal landscapes -
Urban environments-
Rural environments-
Shopping patterns-
There are both revision pages and multiple choices tests to help you with your revision.
Revision classes after school.

9. Finally be sure to ……
……. answer all the questions. You will have ONE hour .