Geography

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Overview of what we cover in Geography:

Paper 1: Living with the Physical Environment – 88 marks 1hr 30min

• Section A: The Challenge of Natural hazards [33]

  • What is a hazard 

  • Climatic hazards, what they are, how they happen and the problems they create, 3Ps

  • Tectonic hazards, what they are, how they happen and the problems they create, 3Ps

  • Climate Change, how it happens, the problems it creates and how to manage it 

  • UK extreme Weather and why it is getting worse 

• Section B:  The Living World [25]

  • Global Biomes 

  • Small scale ecosystem 

  • Food webs, cycles and nutrient cycling 

  • Plant and animal adaptations

  • Amazon rainforest – importance of the biome, impacts of deforestation and how to manage it 

  • Thar Desert –importance of the biome impacts of desertification and how to manage it 

• Section C: Physical landscapes in the UK - Coasts [15]

  • Waves

  • Processes of erosion, deposition and transportation 

  • Erosional features – headlands, bays, headland features 

  • Depositional features – Spits, bars, beaches, sand dunes 

  • Hard engineering management strategies 

  • Soft engineering management strategies 

• Section D: Physical landscaped in the UK -  Rivers [15]

  • River long profile 

  • River channel and valley features 

  • Processes of erosion, transportation and deposition 

  • Erosional river features – waterfalls, rapids

  • Depositional river features – levees, floodplains 

  • Meanders, characteristics and how they change over time

  • Factors affecting flooding, physical and human 

  • Hydrographs 

  • Hard engineering management strategies 

  • Soft engineering management strategies. 

Paper 2: Challenges in the Human Environment – 88 marks 1hr 30min

• Section A: Urban Issues and challenges [33]

  • Megacities 

  • Push and pull factors 

  • Urban to rural migration and counter urbanisation 

  • Opportunities and challenges of a LIC city 

  • Opportunities and challenges of a HIC city 

  • How can these cities be improved and managed? 

  • Sustainable town planning 

• Section B: The Changing Economic World [30]

  • Development indicators 

  • The development gap and strategies to close it 

  • Tourism in Jamaica to close the gap 

  • TNCs and their impacts on NEEs/LICs 

  • The changing structure of the UK economy 

  • The north south divide 

• Section C: The Challenge of resource management [25]

  • Food water and energy 

  • Global variations in supply and demand of resources 

  • How will supply and demand change in future

  • Strategies to increase the supply of resources. 

Paper 3: Geographical Applications 76 marks 1hr 15min

• Section A: Issue evaluation [37]

  • Answering questions about a seen geographical issue – this could be linked to any topic in paper 1 or 2 that you have studied, we will go through this resource in class so don’t worry. 

  • This section will include geographical skills questions, asking you to interpret figures 

  • The 9 marker is usually an evaluation question about the issue raised “should the proposal go ahead or not” “which proposal is more sustainable and why,” this does vary a little each year. 

• Section B: Field Work [39]

  • This will include some unseen field work questions where you have to interpret, present and analyse data, graphs, maps charts etc

  • The remainder of this section will be about your human and physical field work 

    • Your enquiry question 

    • Where did you go and why, risk assessment 

    • What you did to collect data and why 

    • How did you collect your data and why 

    • What conclusions can you draw from your field work 

    • Evaluate how effective your field work is and how it could be improved next time.

Revision Resources

Master Flashcards Paper 1

Master Flashcards Paper 2

Master Flashcards Paper 

Still need additional support? 

Mr T Wood – Director of Learning for Geography twood1@firthparkacademy.org

Mr J Taylor – Head of Faculty – Humanities Jtaylor@firthparkacademy.org