Geography

course outline

Topics

• Town/village

  This topic explores the physical and cultural features of a town or village and their impact on human activities.

• The Local Government Area (LGA)

  Students will learn to identify and describe the local government headquarters, its features, and economic activities, including its relationship with other LGAs.

• The Earth and Other Planets

  This module covers the components of the solar system, the Earth's position, and proofs of its shape.

• Earth's Rotation and Revolution

  Students will describe and explain the phenomena and effects of the Earth's rotation and revolution.

• Latitude and Longitudes

  This section defines latitude and longitude, their relationship to global regions, and their use in locating positions, deducing distances, and local time.

• The Earth's Structure

  Students will identify and describe the major spheres and component layers of the Earth, including their characteristics and interrelationships.

• Rocks

  This module covers the identification, structure, characteristics, formation processes, importance, and disadvantages of major rock types.

• Mountains

  Students will identify, describe, and explain the formation of different mountain types, as well as their importance and disadvantages.

• Lowlands

  This topic explores the types, characteristics, formation processes, and importance of lowlands.

• Action of Running Water

  This section describes water as an energy system, explains erosion and transportational processes, and discusses the erosional and depositional features of rivers.

• Action of Winds

  Students will learn about the processes of wind erosion, the features and formation modes of wind-eroded landforms, and the features of wind deposition.

• Glacial Action

  This module describes glacial features in highland and lowland areas, explains their formation, identifies regions where they are found, and states their economic importance.

• Action of Waves

  Students will distinguish between waves, tides, and currents, explain wave erosion, and describe characteristic landforms of coastal erosion and deposition.

• Earthquakes

  This section defines earthquakes, explains their origin, causes, and effects, and identifies earthquake-prone regions.

• Vulcanicity

  Students will identify and describe vulcanicity processes, locate volcanic regions, and state the characteristic landforms found there.

• Karst (Limestone) Topography

  This topic covers the identification of Karst regions, their characteristics, surface and underground features, and importance to man.

• Denudation

  This module explains the concept of denudation, identifies its processes, and discusses factors affecting it.

• Weathering

  Students will define weathering, identify its types, explain their processes, and describe their effects on the environment.

• Mass Movements

  This section defines mass movements, identifies their types, describes involved processes, and explains their effects.

• The Environment

  Students will learn the meaning of environment, identify its types and components, classify them into major domains, and explain its importance.

• Weather

  This module explains the concept of weather, identifies its elements and instruments for measurement, describes its attributes, and states its importance.

• Climate I

  This section explains climate, lists its elements, distinguishes it from weather, locates major climatic regions, explains influencing factors, and states its importance.

• Climate II

  Students will identify climatic factors, explain their effects on weather and climate, identify characteristics of major climatic types, and describe their distribution.

• Climatic Classification

  This topic describes major climatic classification systems, explains their categories, and discusses their advantages and disadvantages.

• Environmental Resources

  Students will define environmental resources, discuss different types with examples, relate human resource quality to various factors, and explain their importance.

• Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources

  This module explains the concepts of renewable and non-renewable resources, provides examples, and states their advantages and disadvantages.

• Environmental Problems

  This topic describes environmental problems and their causes, explains their effects on human activities, and suggests solutions.

• Environmental Conservation

  Students will explain environmental conservation, discuss various methods with examples, and elaborate on the need and importance of conservation.

• Climatic Change

  This section explains the causes and consequences of climatic change, and discusses governmental measures to prevent or remedy these problems.

• Nigeria: Location and Position

  Students will describe Nigeria's location, position, size, and political divisions with reference to its latitude, longitude, boundaries, and neighbors.

• Physical Setting of Nigeria

  This module identifies major highlands, rivers, drainage systems, describes climatic variations, and explains vegetation belts, highlighting their importance and limitations.

• Population of Nigeria

  This topic explains the growth, structure, and distribution patterns of Nigeria's population, including influences on its quality and movement.

• Resources of Nigeria

  Students will identify, classify, and locate Nigeria's various resources, explaining their importance to the country.

• Agriculture

  This section describes major agricultural practices, identifies key crops, explains the importance of agriculture, and discusses its problems and solutions in Nigeria.

• Transport and Communication in Nigeria

  This module explores the major modes of transportation and communication networks in Nigeria, their advantages, disadvantages, problems, and solutions.

• Manufacturing Industries in Nigeria

  Students will define and classify manufacturing industries, locate major industrial zones, identify influencing factors, and discuss problems and solutions.

• Commercial Activities in Nigeria

  This topic identifies major commercial activities and areas in Nigeria, discusses their importance, and explains the role of financial markets.

• ECOWAS

  Students will learn the meaning of ECOWAS, identify its member states, understand its purpose, advantages, disadvantages, and suggest solutions to its problems.

• Basic Concept in Map Reading

  This module defines maps, differentiates them from plans, states their uses, identifies types of scales and their attributes, and covers scale conversion.

• Map Distances

  This topic covers units for expressing map distance and the conversion between map distance and actual distance.

• Map Reduction and Enlargement

  Students will learn to reduce and enlarge maps to given proportions, plot details, and compare scales on adjusted maps.

• Interpretation of Physical and Cultural Features

  This section defines contour lines, and teaches how to identify and interpret physical and cultural features on maps, explaining their effects on human activities.

• Direction and Bearing

  Students will identify major cardinal points, describe ways of showing direction, determine direction and bearing on a map, and use them to locate points in the field.

• Representation of Relief Forms

  This module identifies physical features on topographical maps, describes methods of representing them, and involves constructing maps to show these features.

• Transportation

  This topic identifies and describes different modes of transportation, their associated means, merits, demerits, contributions to economic development, problems, and solutions.

• Industry

  Students will identify and classify industries, discuss major industries globally, locate industrial areas, describe influencing factors, and address industrial development problems.

• Population

  This module describes world population in terms of size, density, structure, and distribution patterns, and accounts for variations in population.

• Settlements

  Students will identify settlement types, describe their characteristics, explain influencing factors on location, identify patterns, and understand factors of their development.

• Settlement Interaction

  This topic discusses types of settlement interactions and explains interaction patterns, particularly concerning migration.

• Geo-political Issues (Land Reclamation)

  This section explains the concept of land reclamation, describes various methods, and highlights its importance.

• Trade

  Students will define trade, explain its different types, reasons for its occurrence, and its importance across social, political, and economic aspects.

• Tourism

  This module defines tourism, identifies and locates tourist centers, explains the importance of tourism, and discusses its problems and potential solutions.

• Basic Concept of GIS

  Students will explain GIS and geographic data, describe sources of geographic data, distinguish between geographic data and GIS, and state the importance and uses of geo-referencing and GIS.

• Components of GIS

  This topic identifies GIS hardware and software components, states their uses, distinguishes between positional and relational data, and identifies GIS humanware and procedures.

• GIS Data

  Students will identify various sources of data in a GIS environment and learn methods for data collection.

• Satellite Remote Sensing

  This module defines remote sensing, satellite, and satellite remote sensing, explains their applications, and clarifies the relationship between remote sensing and GIS.