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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
Geographical Applications: Fieldwork Enquiry
Choosing an enquiry question, its theory and its sources
- 3 things to know
- Paper 3 section B
Overview
What a hypothesis is, how to choose a measurable, focused and realistic enquiry question, the theory behind it such as the Bradshaw model, the primary and secondary evidence it can use, and checking a site is suitable.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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Which practical matters decide whether an enquiry is realistic?
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What is meant by the theory or concept that underpins an enquiry?
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
What is a hypothesis in geographical fieldwork?
Model answer
A statement that predicts a result and can be tested by the data collected, so that it is either supported or rejected.
- 2
Why must an enquiry question be one that can be measured?
Model answer
Because data has to be able to settle it; a question no measurement or observation can answer cannot be concluded at the end.
- 3
Why is it better to keep an enquiry to a small, focused area?
Model answer
So that enough readings can be taken in the time available to give a fair picture, rather than a thin scatter of data spread over too much ground.
- 4
Which practical matters decide whether an enquiry is realistic?
Model answer
The time, equipment, cost and number of people available, and whether the site can be reached safely and legally.
- 5
What is meant by the theory or concept that underpins an enquiry?
Model answer
The established geographical idea or model that the fieldwork sets out to test in a real place.
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Why is it an advantage to build an enquiry on an existing model?
Model answer
It gives an expected pattern to compare the results against, so you can say whether your site fits the model or departs from it.
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