Year 10 Geography Test Study Tips

The following is information for year 10 students at Willetton SHS to help them prepare for their geography test on the themes of biodiversity and climate change.

1. You will need to provide definitions for the terms: ecosystem, endemic, biodiversity, habitat, preservation, conservation, biome, extinct.

2. Look at the food web diagram. Explain what would happen if an introduced species destroyed all the oak trees. Which other species are effected?


3. What are the main Greenhouse Gases?

4. Below is a diagram that illustrates the natural greenhouse effect. Draw your own version of this.


5. What types of biodiversity are there? Explain what these mean.

6. Biodiversity is important for four reasons - ecosystem processes, ethical values, beauty & culture, and economic. Explain what is meant by each of these terms.

7. When climate scientists make predictions about future temperature rises they usually provide a range rather than exact numbers. Why is this?

8. Human induced climate change has had significant impacts on the Earth's natural systems. List and explain five of these.

9. Discuss ways that we can reduce the future impacts of either climate change OR biodiversity.

Year 10 History Test Study Tips

• You will need to know the difference between primary and secondary sources, and be able to provide examples of each.

• You will need to understand the system of dating involving “BC to AD”.

• What kind of items/implements discovered in archaelogical ruins would tell you about an ancient culture's religion, music, the role of women,the food that they ate?

• What kind of source information about an ancient society would indicate whether it was inventive, wealthy and/or civilized.

• The test is based around source information from the ancient society of Sumer. It may help to have some background information about this society.

• In what ways can we say that the Sumerians had a complex or organised society?