Grade 7 Social Sciences (SS) (Geography & History) Term 2 (Platinum) – Summaries Only

Grade 7 Social Sciences Term 2 (Platinum) Summaries

This product contains all the work for Social Sciences (Geography & History) Grade 7, term 2 – based on the “Platinum” textbook in English.

Geography: Topic 2:  Volcanoes, earthquakes and floods

• Sub-topic 1:  Structure of Earth
  • Unit 1:  Core, mantle and crust
  • Unit 2:  How the crust moves: Introduction to tectonic plates and plate movement
• Sub-topic 2:  Volcanoes
  • Unit 1:  Volcanoes- location around the world
  • Unit 2:  Why volcanoes occur
• Sub-topic 3:  Earthquakes
  • Unit 1:  Location of earthquakes around the world
  • Unit 2:  Causes of earthquakes
  • Unit 3:  Effects of earthquakes
  • Unit 4:  Why some communities are at higher risk than
  • Unit 5:  Reducing the impact-preparing for and responding to earthquakes
  • Unit 6:  Case study of the 2010 Haiti earthquake
• Sub-topic 4:  Floods
  • Unit 1:  Causes of floods
  • Unit 2:  Effects of floods
  • Unit 3:  Why some communities are at higher risk than others
  • Unit 4:  Reducing the impact- preparing for and responding to floods
  • Unit 5:  Case study of a flood

History: Topic 2:  The Trans-Atlantic slave trade

• Sub-topic 1:  West Africa before the European slave trade
  • Unit 1:  Slavery in West Africa
• Sub-topic 2:  The nature of slavery in West Africa before Europeans
  • Unit 1:  What was slavery like in West Africa
• Sub-topic 3:  Slavery in the American South
  • Unit 1:  Plantations:  tobacco, rice, sugar cane and cotton
  • Unit 2:  Reasons for using slave labour
• Sub-topic 4:  The impact of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade on slaves
  • Unit 1:  What it was like to be a plantation slave in the American South
• Sub-topic 5:  The impact of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade on economies
  • Unit 1: West Africa, America and Britain

Packages usually include the following but may differ from product to product:

• Overview for the term including main points, keywords and short summaries / revision.
• Mind map per chapter / topic / term depending on the volume.
• Extensive bulleted summaries in colour with pictures and / or photos.