Case Studies

In order to get a decent mark in Geography you need to use case studies and examples in your answers. If you don’t include them, you can’t get high marks. Even if a question doesn’t ask for an example, throw one in your answer, just to be safe. For many landforms, you don’t need to name a specific example, just an area where you can find these landforms. For example, naming a specific pothole would be a bit silly, but naming an area where you can find them is quite sensible.

Rivers

Case Studies

• Flooding in a MEDC (Boscastle 2004)
• Flooding in a LEDC (Bihar 2008)
• Hard engineering project (The Three Gorges Dam, China)
• Soft engineering project (Restoring the River Cole)

Examples

• Potholes: The Strid on the River Wharfe (Yorkshire, UK)
• Waterfall: Pecca Falls (Ingelton, Yorkshire)
• Braided Channel: The Tagliamento (Italy)
• Levees: Along the Mississippi River (USA)
• Oxbow Lake: Found throughout Cuckmere Haven (Sussex, UK)
• Bird’s Foot Delta: The Mississippi Delta (USA)
• Cuspate Delta: Niger Delta (Nigeria)
• Arcuate Delta: Nile Delta (Egypt)
• River Terraces: Along the River Isis¹ (Oxford, UK)

Coasts

Case Studies

• An example of cliff collapse and the effects of the collapse on the people living there (Barton-on-Sea)
• Hard Engineering Project (New Brighton)
• Soft Engineering Project (Thursaston)
• An example of coastal flooding due to either sea level rise or a natural disaster (Tōhoku Tsunami, Japan)

Examples

• Headland & Bay: Swanage Bay (South East Dorset, UK)
• Wave Cut Notches & Platforms: Around Hilbre Island (North West England)
• Arches, Stacks, Stumps & Geos: Again, all around Hilbre Island (North West England)
• Spit: Spurn Head (East Yorkshire, UK)
• Bar: Slapton Ley (Devon, UK)
• Tombolo: Chesil Beach (Isle of Portland, UK)
• Halosere/Salt Marsh: Parkgate (Wirral, UK)
• Psammosere/Sand Dune: Formby Beach (Sefton, UK)
• Rias: Lim Bay (Croatia)
• Fjord: Geirangerfjord² (Norway)
• Dalmatian Coastline: Dalmatian Coast (Croatia)