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Level D

Attainment Targets

  • D1.1 - develop the mental map further to a range of features/locations, including main lines of latitude and longitude

  • D1.2 - describe the main features of a range of maps at different scales, e.g. Ordnance Survey, climate maps, population maps, the use of four-figure grid references

  • D2.1 - describe how extremes of weather and climate can disastrously affect people and places

  • D2.2 - identify and describe a range of physical features found outwith Scotland

  • D3.1 - describe how, and give some reasons why, settlements differ in character, size, number of people and function

  • D3.2 - for a developing and a developed area or country, describe main features of economic life and how they are changing, e.g. farming, industry, transport, cities

  • D4.1 - for a selected land use change or industrial process, describe possible effects, good and bad, on the landscape/environment, e.g. tropical forest clearance, improvement of derelict land for leisure use

  • D4.2 - describe some methods used and reasons for conserving major resources, e.g. fish, energy, forests
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