Form 3 Revision for Summer Exams

The assessment will include GCSE style questions based on the first two topics you have covered. You can find past paper questions on the AQA website here. You will find Living World questions on PAPER 1 and Managing Resources questions on PAPER 2.

PDF revision notes are attached below this list and Bitesize pages are lnked under the two subheadings of living world and resource management:

The Living World

• The concept of an ecosystem [revision video here]
• Key cycles in an ecosystem (nutrient cycle and energy cycle)
• Location of biomes and factors relating to their distribution
• Characteristics of tropical rainforests [revision video here]
• Reasons for deforestation and the impacts of it
• Sustainable use of the rainforests (Amazon Case Study) [revision video here]
• Characteristics of cold environments [revision video here]
• Threats facing cold environments
• Sustainable use of cold environments (Alaska Case Study) [revision video here]
• Managing Antarctica (Antarctica Case Study)

Resource Management

• Definition of a resource
• Distribution of global resources (food, water and energy) [revision video here]
• Managing UK resources
  • Case study of open cast mining in the UK [revision video here]