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
Resource Management
- 3 subtopics
- 9 things to know
- Paper 2
What Resource Management covers
Resource Management is examined in Paper 2, Challenges in the human environment. It covers why food, water and energy matter, and how unequally they are shared, resources in the UK, and the changing demand for food and the UK's changing demand for water and energy.
Where it is assessed
Paper 2
Challenges in the human environment, 35% of the GCSE.
Check the AQA specification ↗The 3 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- Why food, water and energy matter, and how unequally they are sharedWhat a resource is, why food, clean water and electricity matter to health, farming, industry and daily life, and why consumption per person differs so much between countries.Open →
- Resources in the UK, and the changing demand for foodThe UK's rising demand for resources and reliance on imports, high-value food exports from poorer countries, all-year demand for seasonal and organic produce, food miles and carbon footprints, local sourcing and agribusiness.Open →
- The UK's changing demand for water and energyRising UK water use, areas of surplus and deficit and transfers between them, water pollution and its management, the changing energy mix, the end of coal, declining North Sea oil and gas, growing renewables, and the economic and environmental issues of energy.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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Apart from drinking and washing, what do farming and industry rely on water for?
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What has happened to the UK's demand for resources, and to the share it produces for itself?
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What is meant by a high-value food crop?
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Why has the amount of water used in the UK risen over recent decades?
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What is meant by an area of water surplus?
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What effect does widespread hunger have on a country's economy?
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Why do growers in poorer countries produce such crops for export rather than staples for local sale?
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What is a water deficit?
Take Resource Management further
The same content, four other ways.
Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Food miles vs Carbon footprint
Food miles: the distance produce travels from where it is grown to where it is eaten. Carbon footprint: the total greenhouse gas released by an activity, counted as CO₂.
Seasonal food vs High-value food crop
Seasonal food: produce that ripens only at one particular time of year where it is grown. High-value food crop: produce fetching a high price in wealthy countries, such as cut flowers or coffee.
Agribusiness vs Organic produce
Agribusiness: farming run as a large-scale commercial business with heavy machinery and bought-in chemicals. Organic produce: food grown without manufactured pesticides and fertilisers.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
What is meant by a resource?
Model answer
Anything from the natural or human environment that people can use to meet a need, such as a fuel, a mineral, a crop or a supply of fresh water.
- 2
Why does a dependable food supply matter so much to people's health?
Model answer
Without enough to eat people become undernourished, which leaves them weak and more likely to fall ill, and stops children growing and developing properly.
- 3
What effect does widespread hunger have on a country's economy?
Model answer
Hungry workers are less productive and lose more days to illness, so output falls and more of the country's money has to be spent on health care.
- 4
Why is a clean, treated water supply so important to public health?
Model answer
Untreated water carries diseases such as cholera and typhoid, so a safe supply cuts illness, keeps children in school and keeps adults able to work.
- 5
Apart from drinking and washing, what do farming and industry rely on water for?
Model answer
Farmers use it to irrigate crops and water livestock, and factories use it for cooling, cleaning and as a raw ingredient, so a shortage halts production.
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Why can a country not develop economically without a reliable electricity supply?
Model answer
Factories, offices, ports and hospitals cannot run without power, and businesses will not invest in a place where the supply keeps failing.
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Resource Management revision questions
- What does Resource Management cover in AQA GCSE Geography?
- 3 subtopics: why food, water and energy matter, and how unequally they are shared, resources in the uk, and the changing demand for food and the uk's changing demand for water and energy. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Resource Management organised?
- By the AQA 8035 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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