Asian StudiesFeedback on May 2015 Test

Multi-Choice

• Exam was a little more difficult than the practice exam.

• Read multi-choice carefully

• Some tricky questions

Question 7

• A species that environmentalists are particularly concerned will be affected by the damming of the Mekong River is…

– A. the Asian elephant

– B. the Thai fishing cat

– C. the giant cat-fish

– D. all of the above

Question 11

• In the tsunami warning system that has been set up since the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004…– A. satellites watch for unusual wave patterns

– B. underwater sensors measure changes in water pressure which are communicated by transmitters on buoys

– C. buoys on the ocean surface send signals to a centralised data base which records wave height

– D. buoys on the ocean surface measure sudden changes in water temperature.

Question 14

• Refer to Source F. The best explanation for the cartoon is that …– A. London was not a pleasant place to live in the 1850’s– B. The water in the Thames River was polluted with dead

rats– C. The boatman was coming to claim the lives of the

people of London because the politicians refused to pay to clean up the sewage problem

– D. People who worked as boatmen in London in the 1850’s were dying because they breathed in the foul air of the Thames River.

Part 3 Long Answer

Titles

• Is NOT the question

• Is a statement that tells the reader what your answer is about

The Rubric

–Knowledge

–Structure – think of as short essay – title, intro, body paras, conclusion

–Detailed evidence and examples

–Analysis of issues. This means that…

General points

–Avoid I/we/you statements

–Avoid contractions

Part 2

• Study Strategies …

Some Ideas to Try

• Mneumonics

• Cards

• Notes - Condense

• Set yourself a test

Ideas (continued)

• Peer study group

• Past papers

• Reading

• Evidence Table

• Brain Map

• Diagrams/Maps

Evidence Table

Palestine Water Crisis

. Infrastructuredestruction

IDF bulldozed Palestinian water channels near Jewish settlement of Qiryat Arba’ain Hebron (UN Report).

Go Off Screen

Example – Joseph Bazelgette

•Who?

•Where?

•What?

•When?

•How?

•Who? - an engineer

•What? - designed and built the underground sewer in London

•When? – late 1850’s to 1870s

• Why? - city of London had grown to 2.5 million people. There was no adequate sewage system. The disposal of sewage in the Thames River was causing a ‘Great Stink’

• How? – system of brick-lined underground tunnels that collected sewage that used gravity. The tunnels ran beside the Thames (The Embankment) and transported sewage to a tidal outfall to the east of London.

• Joseph Bazelgette was an engineer who designed and built the underground sewer in London in the late 1850’s to 1870’s.

• The sewer was need because the disposal of sewage for 2.3million inhabitants of London in the Thames had caused a ‘Great Stink’. The system used gravity to transport the sewage through underground tunnel.

Water shortage in India

Notes on Water Security

• http://www.futuredirections.org.au/publications/food-and-water-crises/1715-india-s-food-and-water-security.html

• http://www.aljazeera.com/video/asia/2014/05/atms-deliver-clean-water-india-poorest-20145148180796299.html

• Make notes on rural and urban crisis

• Write your answer

• Swap

• Mark

Practice Your Study Skills

• What measures have been introduced in Israel to increase its water supply? (3 marks)

• Why is there a water shortage in Palestine? (3 marks)

• Why is flooding an important issue in Asia? (3 marks)

• DO NOT use the answer you gave in the test.

• Prepare new notes.• Memorise• Re-sit questions on Wednesday. • Answers are to be written from

memory.• If do well, you can increase your

score on the test.