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Geographical skills and fieldwork (examination Section 1)
Section 1 is built entirely on a separate topographic map sheet (real places used so far: Interlaken, Switzerland in 2025; Wollongong, NSW in 2024; Papatoetoe, Southern Auckland in 2023) plus on-screen photographs, satellite images and cross-sections. It draws on grid and area references, direction and latitude/longitude, contours and relief, scale (distance, route length and area), and reading and comparing photographs, satellite images and older maps. Fieldwork content is tested through unfamiliar scenarios rather than the student's own investigation: writing a testable hypothesis, choosing and justifying primary data-collection techniques, judging the validity and limitations of a method, and evaluating whether a graph, map or table is an effective way to present a data set.
Topic 1: Ecosystems and people (examination Section 2)
This topic covers ecosystem components and how they interconnect (water, soil, atmosphere, vegetation), the categories of ecosystem services (provisioning, regulating and cultural, with supporting sometimes mentioned), how land-cover change drives land degradation and biodiversity loss, and the ecological footprint and biocapacity — what they measure, why footprints vary between countries, and government and community strategies to reduce them.
Topic 3: Population change (examination Section 2)
This topic covers population trends (birth and death rates, total fertility rate, life expectancy, ageing), population structures and pyramids and their consequences (including the dependency ratio), the factors driving those trends in economically developed and developing countries, and the movement of people — types of migration, push and pull factors, and the impacts of migration at origin and destination, including forced migration.
Topics 2, 4 and 5 — Climate change, Globalisation, Transforming global inequality (school assessment only, not examined)
The subject outline requires every Stage 2 Geography student to study Topic 2 (Climate change), Topic 4 (Globalisation) and Topic 5 (Transforming global inequality) as well as Topics 1 and 3, and each is the subject of at least one Assessment Type 1 school task.
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