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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
The Changing Economic World
- 8 subtopics
- 24 things to know
- Paper 2
What The Changing Economic World covers
The Changing Economic World is examined in Paper 2, Challenges in the human environment. It covers Classifying development, and how it is measured, why measures fall short, the Demographic Transition Model, and causes of uneven development, the consequences of uneven development, closing the development gap, and tourism as a strategy, A rapidly developing country: change, industry, aid and impacts and economic futures in the UK.
Where it is assessed
Paper 2
Challenges in the human environment, 35% of the GCSE.
Check the AQA specification ↗The 8 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- Classifying development, and how it is measuredWhat development means, economic development against quality of life, low income, newly emerging and high income countries, the development gap, and measures from gross national income per head, birth, death and infant mortality rates to literacy and the Human Development Index.Open →
- Why measures fall short, the Demographic Transition Model, and causes of uneven developmentWhy average income and development data mislead, what each stage of the Demographic Transition Model shows, and the physical, economic and historical causes of uneven development.Open →
- The consequences of uneven developmentDisparities in wealth within and between countries, the health gap shown by life expectancy and infant mortality, how poor health holds development back, push and pull factors, economic migrants and refugees, and the costs and benefits of emigration.Open →
- Closing the development gap, and tourism as a strategyInvestment, industrial development, aid, intermediate technology, Fairtrade, debt relief and microfinance, criticisms of aid, how tourism brings income, jobs and infrastructure, and how far tourism has narrowed Jamaica's development gap.Open →
- A rapidly developing country: change, industry, aid and impactsA developing country's location, importance and context, economic sectors and changing industrial structure, how manufacturing stimulates growth, transnational corporations, changing political and trading relationships, types and impacts of aid, and the environmental and quality of life effects of growth.Open →
- Nigeria: a newly emerging economyNigeria's location, importance and political, cultural and environmental context, its reliance on oil and changing industries, Shell in the Niger Delta, its new political and trading ties with Africa and China, aid, environmental damage and uneven gains in quality of life.Open →
- Economic futures in the UKDe-industrialisation, globalisation and government policy, the post-industrial economy of services, information technology, science and business parks, industry's environmental impacts, rural change, transport investment, the north–south divide and the UK's links with the EU and the Commonwealth.Open →
- UK economic change: named examplesNamed examples of UK economic change: the Cambridge Science Park, Torr Quarry, growth in South Cambridgeshire and decline in the Outer Hebrides, the Elizabeth line, HS2, London Gateway, Liverpool2, Heathrow, the Northern Powerhouse, leaving the EU and the Commonwealth.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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What is a science park, and what kind of work goes on there?
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Why do port and airport capacity matter to the UK economy?
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What does the word development mean when one country is compared with another?
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What is the difference between economic development and quality of life?
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Give two reasons why data on a country's development may be unreliable.
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Why does population grow fastest in Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition Model?
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What is meant by disparities in wealth between countries?
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Why is wealth often spread unevenly inside a single country?
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How can building up industry reduce the development gap?
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What is Fairtrade, and how does it help growers in poorer countries?
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What makes a country globally important rather than only regionally important?
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What is a newly emerging economy?
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Why do birth rates fall as a country moves through Stage 3 and into Stage 4 of the Demographic Transition Model?
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Which two measures show the health gap between rich and poor countries most clearly?
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What is debt relief?
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What is meant by the political context of a country?
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What disadvantages has Shell's oil extraction brought to the Niger Delta?
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What advantages has the oil company Shell brought to Nigeria?
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Give an example of Chinese investment in Nigeria.
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How has globalisation reduced the number of manufacturing jobs in the UK?
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What has happened to the HS2 high-speed railway?
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Why do high-technology firms choose to locate at the Cambridge Science Park?
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How did the UK's political links with Europe change in 2020?
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Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Birth rate vs Death rate
Birth rate: live babies born in a year for every 1,000 people. Death rate: people who die in a year for every 1,000 people.
Economic migrant vs Refugee
Economic migrant: someone who chooses to move to find work or a better standard of living. Refugee: someone forced to flee to escape war or persecution.
Primary sector vs Secondary sector
Primary sector: taking raw materials from the land or sea, such as farming and mining. Secondary sector: turning raw materials into finished goods through manufacturing and construction.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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What does the word development mean when one country is compared with another?
Model answer
The progress a country has made in growing its economy, using technology and raising the wellbeing of its people.
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What is the difference between economic development and quality of life?
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Economic development is about how much wealth a country produces, while quality of life is about how comfortable, healthy and secure the people living there actually are.
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What is a low income country?
Model answer
A country with a very low average income per person, where most people work in farming and many lack healthcare, schooling and clean water.
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What is a newly emerging economy?
Model answer
A country whose income is rising quickly because manufacturing and industry are growing fast, moving it out of the poorest group.
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What is a high income country?
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A wealthy country with a large average income per person, where most people work in services and living standards are high.
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What is meant by the development gap?
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The difference in wealth and wellbeing between the richest and the poorest countries of the world.
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The Changing Economic World revision questions
- What does The Changing Economic World cover in AQA GCSE Geography?
- 8 subtopics: classifying development, and how it is measured, why measures fall short, the demographic transition model, and causes of uneven development, the consequences of uneven development, closing the development gap, and tourism as a strategy, a rapidly developing country: change, industry, aid and impacts, nigeria: a newly emerging economy, economic futures in the uk and uk economic change: named examples. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is The Changing Economic World organised?
- By the AQA 8035 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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