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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
Energy
- 4 subtopics
- 12 things to know
- Paper 2 section C
- Paper 2 section C, one of food, water and energy
What Energy covers
Energy is examined in Paper 2, Challenges in the human environment. It covers energy surplus and deficit, and why demand is rising, the impacts of energy insecurity, strategies to increase energy supply and towards a sustainable energy supply.
Where it is assessed
Paper 2 section C
Challenges in the human environment: the challenge of resource management, one of three.
Check the AQA specification ↗The 4 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- Energy surplus and deficit, and why demand is risingEnergy security, surplus and deficit, who consumes most per person, why demand keeps rising, and the physical, economic, technological and political factors that shape supply.Open →
- The impacts of energy insecurityExploring the Arctic, deep ocean and tar sands, the economic and environmental costs, effects on food production and industry, and how energy shortages and shared rivers lead to conflict.Open →
- Strategies to increase energy supplyRenewable and non-renewable sources, how wind, hydro, tidal, wave, geothermal, biomass, solar and nuclear power work and their advantages and drawbacks, why fossil fuels still dominate, and fracking for shale gas at Preston New Road in Lancashire.Open →
- Towards a sustainable energy supplyCarbon footprints, energy conservation in homes, workplaces and transport, demand reduction, more efficient use of fossil fuels, and why small local renewable schemes suit poorer rural areas, with the Chambamontera micro-hydro scheme in Peru.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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As easily reached reserves run down, where are energy companies forced to explore?
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Why does energy insecurity reduce industrial output?
Evaluation
Give two advantages of solar power.
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Why is energy use per person low across much of Africa and southern Asia?
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What is the difference between a renewable and a non-renewable energy source?
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What is a carbon footprint?
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Why does the energy an individual uses matter to national demand?
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Give the three main reasons world energy consumption keeps rising.
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Why is drilling for oil in the Arctic or deep ocean so hazardous?
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Name the renewable sources of energy.
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What is energy conservation?
Take Energy further
The same content, four other ways.
Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Energy surplus vs Energy deficit
Energy surplus: producing more power than the people and industries use, leaving spare to export. Energy deficit: using more power than is produced, so the shortfall has to be imported.
Renewable energy source vs Non-renewable energy source
Renewable energy source: a supply replaced naturally as fast as it is used and will not run out. Non-renewable energy source: a supply existing in a fixed quantity that is eventually used up.
Tidal power vs Wave power
Tidal power: using the daily rise and fall of the sea, usually through a barrage. Wave power: capturing the up-and-down motion of the water surface.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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What is meant by energy security?
Model answer
A country has reliable and affordable access to enough energy to meet the needs of its homes, transport and industry, both now and in the future.
- 2
When is an area said to have an energy surplus?
Model answer
When the energy it produces is greater than the amount its people and industries use, so it has spare energy it can store or export.
- 3
What does it mean for a country to have an energy deficit?
Model answer
It uses more energy than it produces, so it has to import the shortfall and is energy insecure.
- 4
Which sorts of country consume the most energy per person?
Model answer
Wealthy, highly industrialised countries, where homes are full of appliances, car ownership is high and factories, offices and services run around the clock.
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Why is energy use per person low across much of Africa and southern Asia?
Model answer
Many people are not connected to an electricity grid, few own vehicles or appliances, and there is little heavy industry to power.
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Which countries tend to have the biggest energy surpluses?
Model answer
Those with large reserves of fossil fuels, or great potential for hydro or geothermal power, set against a fairly small home demand.
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Energy revision questions
- What does Energy cover in AQA GCSE Geography?
- 4 subtopics: energy surplus and deficit, and why demand is rising, the impacts of energy insecurity, strategies to increase energy supply and towards a sustainable energy supply. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Energy organised?
- By the AQA 8035 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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