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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
Ecosystems
- 1 subtopics
- 6 things to know
- Paper 1
What Ecosystems covers
Ecosystems is examined in Paper 1, Living with the physical environment. It covers ecosystems at every scale: interrelationships, balance and global distribution.
Where it is assessed
Paper 1
Living with the physical environment, 35% of the GCSE.
Check the AQA specification ↗The 1 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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How can the loss of vegetation eventually reduce the fertility of an ecosystem's soil?
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How do the tundra and polar regions differ in their vegetation?
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What is an ecosystem?
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What is a producer, and how does it obtain the energy it needs?
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What is a consumer, and what is the difference between a primary and a secondary consumer?
Take Ecosystems further
The same content, four other ways.
Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Producer vs Consumer
Producer: a green plant that makes its own food by photosynthesis. Consumer: an animal that gets its energy by eating other organisms.
Primary consumer vs Secondary consumer
Primary consumer: an animal that eats plants. Secondary consumer: an animal that eats plant-eaters.
Food chain vs Food web
Food chain: a single line along which energy passes from one organism to the next. Food web: the many feeding links that join species together.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
What is an ecosystem?
Model answer
A community of plants and animals that interact with each other and with the non-living parts of the place they live in.
- 2
What is a producer, and how does it obtain the energy it needs?
Model answer
A green plant that makes its own food by photosynthesis using sunlight, so it forms the first link of any feeding sequence.
- 3
What is a consumer, and what is the difference between a primary and a secondary consumer?
Model answer
An animal that gets its energy by eating other organisms; a primary consumer eats plants, while a secondary consumer eats primary consumers.
- 4
What is a decomposer, and what does it do to dead material?
Model answer
A bacterium or fungus that breaks down dead plant and animal remains, releasing the nutrients they hold back into the soil.
- 5
What does a food chain show?
Model answer
The single line along which energy is passed from one organism to the next as each is eaten by the one above it.
- 6
Why does a food web give a more realistic picture of feeding than a single food chain?
Model answer
Because most animals eat several different things, so a web shows the many feeding links that join species together rather than just one line.
What is inside Levo
Six ways to work the same material.
Ecosystems revision questions
- What does Ecosystems cover in AQA GCSE Geography?
- 1 subtopics: ecosystems at every scale: interrelationships, balance and global distribution. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Ecosystems organised?
- By the AQA 8035 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
Every question in Ecosystems, on a schedule.
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