secondary school Form three Geography syllabus

1. STRUCTURE OF THE EARTH

• The earth’s crust.
• The Mantle.
• The core.
• Types of rocks of the earth’s crust.
• Simplified Geological Time Scale.

2. FORCES THAT EFFECT THE EARTH FROM WITHIN (INTERNAL FORCES).

• Causes of earth movements.
• Radial/vertical forces upward and downward movements.
• Lateral or horizontal forces.
• Vulcanicity.
• Earthquake.

3. FORCES THAT AFFECT THE EARTH EXTERNALLY

• Mass movement
• Weathering
• Erosion and deposition

–  Running water, river action, and rainwater –  Action of ice –  Wind action –  Sea action

4. SOILS

• Meaning of soils
• Factors of soil formation
• Importance of soil
• Soil composition properties
• Soil Characteristics
• Simple soil classification
• Soil Erosion.

5.CLIMATE

• Major Climate types and Natural regions of the world
• Global Climate Change

6.MAP READING AND TOPOGRAPHIC MAP INTERPRETATION7.PHOTOGRAPH READING AND INTERPRETATION

• Skills on reading
• Types of photographs
• Things to read and interpret on a photograph

8.APPLICATION OF STATISTICS

• Concept of statistics

• Types of data in Statistics

• Importance of Statistics

• Ways of presenting data

• Simple statistical measures

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• 2 classification of statistics
• The internal structure of the earth
• FORCES THAT AFFECT THE EARTH
• EFFECTS OF CONTINENTAL DRIFT
• 7 Factors influencing atmospheric pressure