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AQA GCSE Geography 8035
Climate Change
Coastal Landscapes in the UKUK landscape option
Topic overviewWaves and coastal processes: weathering, mass movement, erosion, transport and depositionCoastal landforms of erosion and depositionIdentifying landforms on a stretch of UK coastlineCoastal management: hard and soft engineering, and a UK schemeManaging the Holderness coast at Mappleton
Cold EnvironmentsLiving world option
Ecosystems
EnergyResource option
FoodResource option
Geographical Applications: Fieldwork Enquiry
Topic overviewChoosing an enquiry question, its theory and its sourcesRisk assessment in fieldworkPrimary and secondary data, and sampling methodsJustifying your data collection methodsChoosing and using presentation methodsDescribing, analysing and explaining fieldwork resultsAnomalies in fieldwork dataDrawing conclusions from an enquiryEvaluating an enquiry: problems, limitations and missing dataHow reliable were your conclusions?
Geographical Skills
Topic overviewAtlas maps: coordinates, distributions and patternsReading thematic maps for physical and human associationsOS maps: scale, grid references, distance and directionOS maps: gradient, contours and landscape featuresOS maps: relief, cross sections and drawing inferencesOS maps: transects, landscape description and human activityComparing maps, sketch maps and photographsDescribing landscapes from photographs, and annotating themChoosing and constructing the right graph or chartCompleting choropleth, isoline, dot, desire-line and flow mapsReading population pyramids, choropleth and flow-line mapsNumber, scale, proportion and ratio, and designing data sheetsDrawing conclusions from numerical dataAverages, spread, percentages and correlationSpotting weaknesses in how data is presentedUsing maps, fieldwork data and GIS as evidenceUsing imagery, written, visual and graphical sourcesUsing numerical and statistical information as evidenceFraming an enquiry and writing about itBuilding an argument and reaching a conclusionIssue evaluation: stakeholders, options and a justified decision
Glacial Landscapes in the UKUK landscape option
Hot DesertsLiving world option
Resource Management
River Landscapes in the UKUK landscape option
Tectonic Hazards
The Changing Economic World
Topic overviewClassifying development, and how it is measuredWhy measures fall short, the Demographic Transition Model, and causes of uneven developmentThe consequences of uneven developmentClosing the development gap, and tourism as a strategyA rapidly developing country: change, industry, aid and impactsNigeria: a newly emerging economyEconomic futures in the UKUK economic change: named examples
Tropical Rainforests
UK Physical Landscapes
Urban Issues and Challenges
Topic overviewGlobal urbanisation: patterns, trends and what drives themThe rise of megacitiesA major city in a poorer or emerging country, and planning for the urban poorRio de Janeiro: growth, opportunities and challengesThe UK's urban population and a major UK cityBristol: urban change in a major UK cityAn urban regeneration projectSustainable urban living and urban transport
WaterResource option
Weather Hazards
Topic overviewGlobal atmospheric circulation: pressure belts and surface windsWhere tropical storms form, and whyThe structure of a tropical storm, and the effect of climate changeThe effects of and responses to tropical stormsReducing the effects of tropical stormsWeather hazards in the UKAn extreme weather event in the UK, and evidence of more extreme weather
Coastal Landscapes in the UK
- 5 subtopics
- 15 things to know
- Paper 1 section C
- Paper 1 section C, two of the three UK landscapes
What Coastal Landscapes in the UK covers
Coastal Landscapes in the UK is examined in Paper 1, Living with the physical environment. It covers waves and coastal processes: weathering, mass movement, erosion, transport and deposition, coastal landforms of erosion and deposition, Identifying landforms on a stretch of UK coastline and coastal management: hard and soft engineering, and a UK scheme.
Where it is assessed
Paper 1 section C
Living with the physical environment: two of the three UK landscapes.
Check the AQA specification ↗The 5 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- Waves and coastal processes: weathering, mass movement, erosion, transport and depositionHow wind makes waves, swash and backwash, constructive and destructive waves, mechanical and chemical weathering, sliding, slumping and rock falls, hydraulic power, abrasion and attrition, longshore drift, and why sediment is deposited on the coast.Open →
- Coastal landforms of erosion and depositionConcordant and discordant coasts, how rock type and lines of weakness shape cliffs, the formation of headlands and bays, wave cut platforms, caves, arches, stacks and stumps, and beaches, spits, bars and sand dunes.Open →
- Identifying landforms on a stretch of UK coastlineThe erosional and depositional landforms of a UK coastline and how to spot them on a map, why they sit where they do, and the Dorset coast from Old Harry Rocks, Swanage and Studland to Lulworth Cove, Durdle Door and Chesil Beach.Open →
- Coastal management: hard and soft engineering, and a UK schemeHard and soft engineering compared, the benefits and costs of sea walls, rock armour, gabions, groynes, beach nourishment, reprofiling, dune regeneration and managed retreat, and the reasons, strategy, effects and conflicts of a coastal scheme.Open →
- Managing the Holderness coast at MappletonWhy the boulder clay cliffs of Holderness retreat so fast, why Mappleton and its coast road were protected in 1991, the rock groynes and revetment used, and how the scheme starved Cowden and the coast further south of sediment.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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Which three things should you be able to explain about the coastal management scheme you studied?
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What is the difference between the swash and the backwash of a breaking wave?
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What is the difference between a concordant and a discordant coastline?
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How does the type of rock affect the shape of a cliff?
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What should you be able to do with the stretch of UK coastline you studied?
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Which erosional landforms should you look for along the coastline you studied?
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What is the difference between hard engineering and soft engineering at the coast?
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How does chemical weathering break down rock at the coast?
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How do headlands and bays form where bands of hard and soft rock reach the sea?
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Which landforms built by deposition might be found along a stretch of UK coastline?
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What is rock armour, and what are its benefits and costs?
Process
How fast is the Holderness coast retreating?
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Where did the rock for the Mappleton defences come from?
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What effect has the coastal scheme had at Mappleton itself?
Take Coastal Landscapes in the UK further
The same content, four other ways.
Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Swash vs Backwash
Swash: the water rushing up the beach once a wave has broken. Backwash: the water draining back down the beach under gravity.
Constructive wave vs Destructive wave
Constructive wave: a low, long breaker whose strong uprush builds the beach up. Destructive wave: a tall, steep breaker whose powerful drag-back wears the beach away.
Abrasion vs Attrition
Abrasion: waves hurling sand, shingle and pebbles at the cliff face to grind it away. Attrition: loose rock fragments wearing each other down as they knock together in the water.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
How are waves at sea created, and what three factors control how large they become?
Model answer
They are created by the wind blowing across the surface of open water, and their size depends on how strong the wind is, how long it blows for and the fetch it has crossed.
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What is the difference between the swash and the backwash of a breaking wave?
Model answer
The swash is the water rushing up the beach once the wave has broken, and the backwash is the water draining back down the beach under gravity.
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What are the characteristics of a constructive wave?
Model answer
It is low and long and breaks gently, and its strong swash and weak backwash push more material up the beach than they drag away, so the beach is built up.
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What does a destructive wave look like, and what effect does it have on a beach?
Model answer
It is tall and steep and breaks often, and its weak swash and powerful backwash drag material back down the beach, so the beach is worn away.
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What is mechanical weathering on a coast, and which type is most common?
Model answer
It is the breaking up of rock into fragments with no change to its chemistry, most often freeze-thaw, where water in a crack freezes, expands and prises the rock apart.
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How does chemical weathering break down rock at the coast?
Model answer
Slightly acidic rainwater and salty spray react with minerals in the rock and dissolve them, so rocks such as chalk and limestone are slowly eaten away and weakened.
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Coastal Landscapes in the UK revision questions
- What does Coastal Landscapes in the UK cover in AQA GCSE Geography?
- 5 subtopics: waves and coastal processes: weathering, mass movement, erosion, transport and deposition, coastal landforms of erosion and deposition, identifying landforms on a stretch of uk coastline, coastal management: hard and soft engineering, and a uk scheme and managing the holderness coast at mappleton. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Coastal Landscapes in the UK organised?
- By the AQA 8035 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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