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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
Drawing conclusions from an enquiry
- 3 things to know
- Paper 3 section B
Overview
What a conclusion must do: answer the original question with evidence, judge the hypothesis, refer back to theory, mention anomalies and respect the limits of place and time, and how a conclusion differs from an evaluation.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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What is the conclusion of a geographical enquiry?
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What is the difference between a conclusion and an evaluation?
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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What is the conclusion of a geographical enquiry?
Model answer
A direct answer to the question that was asked at the start, supported by the evidence that was collected.
- 2
What makes a conclusion an evidenced one?
Model answer
Every statement in it points back to particular data from the enquiry — figures, graphs or observations — rather than to what was expected.
- 3
Why must a conclusion return to the question the enquiry began with?
Model answer
Because the whole investigation was designed around that question, and a conclusion about anything else leaves it unanswered.
- 4
What should be said about a hypothesis when the conclusion is reached?
Model answer
Whether the data supports it, rejects it, or supports it only in part, and which evidence leads to that judgement.
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Can an enquiry be a good one if its hypothesis turns out to be wrong?
Model answer
Yes, because rejecting a prediction on clear evidence is a valid result, provided the data was collected properly.
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Why should a conclusion refer back to the theory the enquiry was built on?
Model answer
So that you can state whether the site behaved as the model predicts and, where it did not, suggest a reason for the difference.
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