Key term
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 Skills
OS maps: scale, grid references, distance and direction
- 3 things to know
- All three papers
Overview
What the 1:50 000 and 1:25 000 scales mean, grid squares, four-figure and six-figure grid references, measuring straight and winding distances, and the eight compass points.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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Key term
On a 1:25 000 map, what distance on the ground do 4 cm represent?
Key term
Which shows more detail, a 1:25 000 map or a 1:50 000 map, and why?
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
On a 1:50 000 map, what distance on the ground does 1 cm represent?
Model answer
500 m, because 50 000 cm is half a kilometre.
- 2
On a 1:25 000 map, what distance on the ground do 4 cm represent?
Model answer
1 km, because each centimetre stands for 250 m.
- 3
Which shows more detail, a 1:25 000 map or a 1:50 000 map, and why?
Model answer
The 1:25 000 map, because everything is drawn twice as large, so small features such as field boundaries can be included.
- 4
How big is one grid square on the ground, and how wide is it drawn at each of the two common scales?
Model answer
One kilometre square on the ground either way, drawn 2 cm across at 1:50 000 and 4 cm across at 1:25 000.
- 5
What does a four-figure grid reference identify?
Model answer
One whole grid square, a square kilometre of ground.
- 6
Which half of a grid reference is read first?
Model answer
The eastings, read along the bottom of the map, before the northings read up the side.
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