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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
Evaluating an enquiry: problems, limitations and missing data
- 3 things to know
- Paper 3 section B
Overview
Why an enquiry is evaluated, problems in measuring physical data, inconsistency between collectors, questionnaire problems, limitations such as a single day or few readings, and the further data that would strengthen a river or city enquiry.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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Give two problems that can arise with the way physical data is measured.
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Why is inconsistency between people a problem when a group collects data together?
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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What is the purpose of evaluating an enquiry?
Model answer
To judge how well the methods worked and how good the data was, and so how much confidence the conclusion deserves.
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Give two problems that can arise with the way physical data is measured.
Model answer
A metre rule sinking into a soft bed or being held at an angle, and a float caught in an eddy or against the bank so the timing is wrong.
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Why is inconsistency between people a problem when a group collects data together?
Model answer
If each person measures or judges slightly differently, the differences between sites may come from the collectors rather than from the places.
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What problems come with collecting data by questionnaire?
Model answer
People may answer dishonestly or refuse altogether, and those willing to stop and talk may not represent everyone who uses the place.
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What is meant by a limitation of the data that was collected?
Model answer
A way in which it falls short of answering the question fully, such as too few readings, too few sites, or coverage of only one day or one season.
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Why is data gathered on a single day a limitation?
Model answer
Because the weather, tide, traffic or an event on that day may not be typical, so the results may not represent the site as it normally is.
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