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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
Weather Hazards
- 7 subtopics
- 21 things to know
- Paper 1
What Weather Hazards covers
Weather Hazards is examined in Paper 1, Living with the physical environment. It covers global atmospheric circulation: pressure belts and surface winds, where tropical storms form, and why, the structure of a tropical storm, and the effect of climate change, the effects of and responses to tropical storms, reducing the effects of tropical storms, weather hazards in the UK and an extreme weather event in the UK, and evidence of more extreme weather.
Where it is assessed
Paper 1
Living with the physical environment, 35% of the GCSE.
Check the AQA specification ↗The 7 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- Global atmospheric circulation: pressure belts and surface windsWhat drives global circulation, the three cells, rising air at the equator and sinking air at 30°, the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone, trade winds, westerlies and the Coriolis effect.Open →
- Where tropical storms form, and whyHurricanes, typhoons and cyclones by ocean, the latitudes where storms form, the Coriolis effect, the Hadley cell, trade winds, sea temperature, wind shear, the stages of growth and weakening over land.Open →
- The structure of a tropical storm, and the effect of climate changeThe eye, eyewall and rainbands of a tropical storm, its spiral shape, hurricane wind speeds and the Saffir–Simpson scale, storm surges, and how warmer oceans may change the strength, distribution and number of storms.Open →
- The effects of and responses to tropical stormsPrimary and secondary effects of tropical storms, immediate and long-term responses, and Typhoon Haiyan in 2013: its storm surge in Tacloban, its deaths and displacement, the relief effort and rebuilding in the Philippines.Open →
- Reducing the effects of tropical stormsMonitoring storms with satellites and aircraft, forecasting their track, warnings, protecting buildings, mangroves and salt marsh as natural defences, planning, public education, and why preparation matters most in poorer countries.Open →
- Weather hazards in the UKWhat extreme weather is, the UK's weather hazards from gales and flooding to snow, drought, heatwaves and thunderstorms, when and where they strike, and the damage and disruption each causes.Open →
- An extreme weather event in the UK, and evidence of more extreme weatherThe causes and social, economic and environmental impacts of a UK weather event, management and forecasting, the 2014 Somerset Levels floods with the dredging and action plan that followed, and the evidence that UK weather is becoming more extreme.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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What damage do gales, snow and ice, and heatwaves cause in the UK?
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What evidence suggests the UK's weather is becoming more extreme, and why is that hard to prove?
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What drives the movement of air in the global atmospheric circulation system?
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Between which latitudes do tropical storms almost always develop?
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How does the rising air of the Hadley cell help a storm to grow?
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What is the eye of a tropical storm?
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What shape does a tropical storm take, and which way does it spin in the northern hemisphere?
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What is meant by a primary effect of a tropical storm?
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What is meant by a secondary effect of a tropical storm?
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Why is a storm watched even before it threatens land?
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Why is forecasting a storm's path difficult?
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What is meant by an extreme weather event?
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What causes should you be able to give for the extreme weather event you have studied?
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Name the three circulation cells found in each hemisphere, working from the equator to the pole.
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Which winds steer a young tropical storm westwards once it has formed?
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What wind speed must a storm reach to be classed as a hurricane?
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Give three primary effects of a tropical storm on people and property.
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How can natural coastal vegetation protect land from a storm surge?
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Name five kinds of weather hazard that affect the UK.
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What counts as a social impact of an extreme weather event?
Take Weather Hazards further
The same content, four other ways.
Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Hurricane vs Typhoon
Hurricane: a tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern Pacific. Typhoon: a tropical storm in the western Pacific near Japan and the Philippines.
Eye vs Eyewall
Eye: the calm centre where air descends, with clear skies and the lowest pressure. Eyewall: the ring of towering cloud around the centre with the strongest winds and heaviest rain.
Immediate response vs Long-term response
Immediate response: action taken during the storm or in the hours and days straight after it. Long-term response: work over months and years to rebuild and reduce the damage a future storm would do.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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What drives the movement of air in the global atmospheric circulation system?
Model answer
The unequal heating of the Earth's surface, because the equator receives far more concentrated solar energy than the poles, so heat is moved polewards.
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Name the three circulation cells found in each hemisphere, working from the equator to the pole.
Model answer
The Hadley cell, the Ferrel cell and the Polar cell.
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Why is there a belt of low pressure at the equator?
Model answer
Intense heating makes the air rise, and rising air lowers the pressure at the surface.
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What weather is typical underneath a belt of rising air?
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Cloud and heavy rainfall, because the rising air cools and its water vapour condenses.
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Why do most of the world's hot deserts lie close to 30° north and south?
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Air sinking in the subtropical high pressure belt warms as it descends, so cloud cannot form and rainfall is very low.
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What is the name of the zone near the equator where the trade winds of the two hemispheres meet?
Model answer
The Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone.
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Weather Hazards revision questions
- What does Weather Hazards cover in AQA GCSE Geography?
- 7 subtopics: global atmospheric circulation: pressure belts and surface winds, where tropical storms form, and why, the structure of a tropical storm, and the effect of climate change, the effects of and responses to tropical storms, reducing the effects of tropical storms, weather hazards in the uk and an extreme weather event in the uk, and evidence of more extreme weather. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Weather Hazards organised?
- By the AQA 8035 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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