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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
Tectonic Hazards
Living with tectonic risk: monitoring, prediction, protection and planning
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- Paper 1
Overview
Why people stay near volcanoes and fault lines, from family to fertile soil, geothermal energy and tourism, and how monitoring, prediction, protective building and planning reduce the risk.
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How does the rarity of major events explain why people stay?
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Why can an eruption often be predicted when an earthquake cannot?
Questions from this subtopic
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Give two personal reasons people stay in a place they know is at risk from an earthquake or eruption.
Model answer
It is where they were born and where their family and friends live, and their job and their home are there.
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Why does farming attract people to the slopes of a volcano?
Model answer
Because weathered lava and ash break down into deep, mineral-rich soils that give unusually high crop yields.
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Name two resources that volcanic areas offer besides fertile soil.
Model answer
Geothermal heat that can be tapped for cheap electricity and hot water, and minerals such as sulphur and metal ores that can be mined.
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How can a volcano bring money into the local economy?
Model answer
It draws tourists to see the crater, hot springs and lava landscape, which creates jobs in guiding, transport, hotels and shops.
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How does the rarity of major events explain why people stay?
Model answer
Serious earthquakes and eruptions may be decades apart, so many residents have never experienced one and judge the risk to be small.
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Why do some of the poorest residents have no real choice about staying?
Model answer
Because they cannot afford to buy land or a home anywhere safer, and moving would mean losing the work that feeds them.
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