JC Geography case studies
JC Geography · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Junior Certificate Geography (Tíreolaíocht) is the Junior Cycle subject taken by students in Irish post-primary schools, usually in second or third year. It is a school-leaving-level certification subject rather than a professional credential: its purpose is to give learners a grounded understanding of physical, human and environmental geography, and to build the map, graph and fieldwork skills that carry into Senior Cycle Geography. The JC Geography case studies are 5 cases and about 4,300 words.
1Cut-slope failure above a coastal access road
Along a 4.2 km stretch of coastal road, a 14 m high cut slope was excavated in 2019 at 41° into a granitic hillside. The saprolite is 6–9 m thick and overlies weathered granite.
926 words, about 5 min2Urban heat island in a dense tropical CBD
Two automatic weather stations in a tropical city of 3.1 million record a clear, calm dry-season day. Station A is in a dense central business district with 85% impervious cover and a sky-view factor of 0.4.
845 words, about 4 min3Ageing and service decline in a rural municipality
A rural municipality in southern Europe has 16,500 residents. The share aged 65 and over rose from 19% in 2001 to 34% in 2021, and the total fertility rate is 1.15.
814 words, about 4 min4Copper dependence and a proposed special economic zone
Country X has 14 million people. Copper is 58% of goods exports, 31% of government revenue and 7% of GDP, but only 2.5% of employment.
825 words, about 4 min5Designing a downstream river fieldwork investigation
A class of 24 students investigates how channel characteristics change downstream along a 3.4 km reach of a small river. They have one day, two 50 m tapes, a flow meter, a clinometer and a 1:25,000 topographic map.
890 words, about 4 min