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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
Glacial Landscapes in the UK
- 5 subtopics
- 15 things to know
- Paper 1 section C
- Paper 1 section C, two of the three UK landscapes
What Glacial Landscapes in the UK covers
Glacial Landscapes in the UK is examined in Paper 1, Living with the physical environment. It covers the last ice age in the UK, and glacial processes, glacial landforms of erosion, transport and deposition, Identifying landforms in a glaciated UK upland and economic activity, conflict and tourism in glaciated uplands.
Where it is assessed
Paper 1 section C
Living with the physical environment: two of the three UK landscapes.
Check the AQA specification ↗The 5 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- The last ice age in the UK, and glacial processesHow far ice covered Britain in the last ice age and when it retreated, glacial and interglacial periods, freeze-thaw weathering, abrasion and plucking, rotational slip and bulldozing, and why glaciers deposit till and outwash.Open →
- Glacial landforms of erosion, transport and depositionThe formation of corries, arêtes, pyramidal peaks, truncated spurs, glacial troughs, ribbon lakes and hanging valleys, and the erratics, drumlins and lateral, medial, terminal and ground moraines left by ice.Open →
- Identifying landforms in a glaciated UK uplandRecognising corries, glaciated valleys, arêtes, moraine and striations in a UK upland and on maps, how eroded and deposited landforms link, and Lake District examples such as Red Tarn, Striding Edge, Great Langdale, Windermere and Wast Water.Open →
- Economic activity, conflict and tourism in glaciated uplandsTourism, sheep farming, forestry and quarrying in glaciated uplands, conflicts between land uses and between development and conservation, holiday homes, and the social, economic and environmental impacts of tourism and how they are managed.Open →
- Tourism in the Lake DistrictVisitor numbers and spending in the Lake District, its attractions and protected status, the jobs, house prices, congestion and footpath erosion tourism brings, and management through Fix the Fells, the Windermere speed limit and public transport.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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Name the four types of moraine and say where each is found.
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Why do glaciated uplands hold so many lakes?
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Why do holiday homes cause resentment among permanent residents of an upland area?
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How do crowds of visitors, outside buyers of holiday homes and heavy footfall affect an upland community and its environment?
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Which parts of Britain lay beneath ice when the last ice age was at its coldest?
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Roughly when was ice at its greatest extent over Britain, and when did it finally retreat?
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Which landforms left by deposition should you be able to identify in a glaciated UK upland?
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What is the difference between a glacial period and an interglacial period?
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How is a pyramidal peak produced?
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How can you tell a glaciated valley from a river valley on a map?
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Name the four main economic activities carried on in glaciated upland areas.
Process
What protected status does the Lake District have?
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What are the economic impacts of tourism in the Lake District?
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What are the environmental impacts of tourism in the Lake District?
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Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Abrasion vs Plucking
Abrasion: rock fragments frozen into the ice scouring the bedrock like sandpaper. Plucking: meltwater freezing onto loosened blocks that the moving ice tears away.
Till vs Outwash
Till: unsorted material of all shapes and sizes dumped straight from melting ice. Outwash: sorted layers laid down by meltwater streams beyond the glacier.
Arête vs Pyramidal peak
Arête: a narrow knife-edged ridge left between two corries. Pyramidal peak: a sharp pointed summit where three or more corries meet.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
Which parts of Britain lay beneath ice when the last ice age was at its coldest?
Model answer
The whole of Scotland and Northern Ireland, most of Wales and northern England were buried, with the ice reaching south to roughly a line running from South Wales across the northern Midlands to the north Norfolk coast.
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What was the land like in southern Britain, beyond the edge of the ice?
Model answer
It was cold, treeless tundra with ground that stayed frozen for much of the year, shaped by freeze-thaw and by meltwater rather than by ice moving over it.
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Roughly when was ice at its greatest extent over Britain, and when did it finally retreat?
Model answer
The ice reached its greatest extent around 18,000 years ago and had melted back from Britain by about 10,000 years ago.
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What is the difference between a glacial period and an interglacial period?
Model answer
A glacial is a long, cold phase in which ice sheets grow and spread outwards, while an interglacial is a warmer phase between glacials when the ice melts back.
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Explain how freeze-thaw weathering breaks up rock in a cold upland.
Model answer
Water collects in a crack, freezes and expands by about 9%, pushing the crack wider, and repeated freezing and thawing eventually snaps off angular fragments of rock.
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What two conditions must be present for freeze-thaw weathering to work?
Model answer
Water able to get into cracks in the rock, and temperatures that repeatedly rise above and fall below 0 °C.
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Glacial Landscapes in the UK revision questions
- What does Glacial Landscapes in the UK cover in AQA GCSE Geography?
- 5 subtopics: the last ice age in the uk, and glacial processes, glacial landforms of erosion, transport and deposition, identifying landforms in a glaciated uk upland, economic activity, conflict and tourism in glaciated uplands and tourism in the lake district. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Glacial Landscapes in the UK organised?
- By the AQA 8035 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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