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Edexcel GCSE Geography A 1GA0
Changing Cities
Topic overviewGlobal urbanisation trends and ratesThe UK’s urban population and why urbanisation varies by regionThe chosen UK city: site, situation, connectivity and structureUrbanisation, suburbanisation and migration in the chosen UK cityPopulation change and deindustrialisation in the chosen UK cityInequality and changes in retailing in the chosen UK cityMaking the chosen UK city more sustainableThe chosen developing or emerging city: site, situation and structurePopulation growth and migration in the chosen developing or emerging cityInequality and quality of life in the chosen developing or emerging cityRapid urbanisation: challenges, and bottom-up and top-down responsesGovernment policy and quality of life in the chosen city
Coastal Landscapes and ProcessesLandscape option
Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Management
Topic overviewThe world’s large-scale ecosystems and what controls their distributionThe biosphere as a resource, and its commercial exploitationUK terrestrial and marine ecosystemsTropical rainforest characteristics and the nutrient cycleRainforest biodiversity and plant and animal adaptationsRainforest goods and services, and the causes of deforestationSustainable management of a named rainforestDeciduous woodland characteristics and the nutrient cycleWoodland biodiversity and plant and animal adaptationsWoodland goods and services, and the causes of deforestationSustainable management of a named deciduous woodland
Energy Resource ManagementResource option
Geographical Investigations – Fieldwork
Topic overviewRiver fieldwork: enquiry questions, methods and secondary dataCoastal fieldwork: enquiry questions, methods and secondary dataUrban fieldwork: enquiry questions and methodsUrban fieldwork: secondary data sourcesRural fieldwork: enquiry questions and methodsRural fieldwork: secondary data sourcesThe enquiry process: asking questions and choosing methodsThe enquiry process: presenting, analysing and concludingThe enquiry process: evaluating fieldwork
Geographical Investigations − UK Challenges
Geographical Skills
Topic overviewAtlas and map skills: distributions, patterns and sketch mapsDescribing the site, situation and shape of settlementsInterpreting diagrams, sketches and photographsUsing online census sourcesHypotheses, sampling and risk assessmentCollecting, recording and presenting dataWriting about findings and building an argument
Glaciated Upland Landscapes and ProcessesLandscape option
Topic overviewGlacial processes and the processes at work on relict landscapes todayPast climate and present UK weather in glaciated uplandsGlacial landforms of erosion and depositionCrag and tail, and drumlinsHuman activity and development in glaciated uplandsA named distinctive glaciated upland landscape in the UK
Global Development
Topic overviewDefining and measuring developmentThe global pattern of development and why it is unevenThe consequences of uneven development for quality of lifeStrategies to reduce uneven development: aid, top-down and bottom-upThe chosen country: location, context and internal unevennessEconomic change, trade, aid and investment in the chosen countryPopulation and social change in the chosen countryGeopolitics and technology in the chosen countryThe impacts of rapid development and how they are managed
Mathematics and Statistics Skills
Topic overviewCartographic skills: contours, transects, scale and distanceUsing GIS and geo-spatial dataChoosing, constructing and interpreting graphs and chartsNumerical skills: number, scale, proportion and ratioDrawing conclusions from numerical dataStatistical skills: averages, spread, percentages and correlationSpotting weaknesses in how data is presented
Resource Management
River Landscapes and ProcessesLandscape option
The Changing Landscapes of the UK
Water Resource ManagementResource option
Topic overviewThe global distribution of fresh water, and water surplus and deficitChanging water supply and demandHow water use differs between countriesWater supply problems in the UK and in developing countriesStakeholder attitudes to water, and desalinationSustainable management of water resources
Weather Hazards and Climate Change
Topic overviewGlobal atmospheric circulation and the transfer of heatNatural climate change and the evidence for itThe enhanced greenhouse effect and the effects of climate changeThe climate of the UK and how it variesHow tropical cyclones form, and where they occurWhy tropical cyclones are hazardous, and their impactsResponses to tropical cyclonesThe causes of drought and why some places are more vulnerableThe impacts of drought and responses to it
Resource Management
- 3 subtopics
- 9 things to know
- Paper 2
What Resource Management covers
Resource Management is examined in Paper 2, The Human Environment. It covers what natural resources are, and how people exploit them, how exploitation changes environments and the distribution and consumption of food, energy and water.
Where it is assessed
Paper 2
The Human Environment, 37.5% of the GCSE.
Check the Pearson Edexcel specification ↗The 3 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- What natural resources are, and how people exploit themWhat a natural resource is, biotic against abiotic and renewable against non-renewable, why a fish stock can collapse, and how fossil fuels, fish, farmland, forest and fresh water are taken.Open →
- How exploitation changes environmentsWhat biodiversity is and how forest clearance and overfishing reduce it, soil erosion from lost vegetation, ploughing and overgrazing, and how farming, mining and burning fossil fuels lower water and air quality.Open →
- The distribution and consumption of food, energy and waterWhy resources are unevenly spread, where the UK's fertile soils, forestry, fossil fuels, rain and hard rocks lie, how wealth, diet and industrialisation raise demand for energy, water and food, and where the world's oil, gas, coal, forests, farmland, metal ores and fresh water are found.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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What is a natural resource, and how do fossil fuel extraction, commercial fishing and farming meet human needs?
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Why are resources spread unevenly, where are the UK's best soils and heaviest rain, and how is world water use divided?
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What is a natural resource?
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What is biodiversity?
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Why are natural resources spread unevenly around the world?
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How are coal, oil and gas taken out of the ground?
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Why does clearing forest reduce biodiversity?
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Which part of the UK has the deepest, most fertile soils, and what farming does it support?
Take Resource Management further
The same content, four other ways.
Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Biotic resource vs Abiotic resource
Biotic resource: one coming from living or once-living matter, such as timber or fish. Abiotic resource: one coming from non-living parts of the environment, such as rock or water.
Renewable resource vs Non-renewable resource
Renewable resource: one replacing itself naturally within a human lifetime. Non-renewable resource: one that took millions of years to form and is used faster than it re-forms.
Arable farming vs Pastoral farming
Arable farming: growing crops in the soil. Pastoral farming: grazing livestock on grassland for food.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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What is a natural resource?
Model answer
A material or feature of the natural world that people make use of, such as water, timber, fish, soil or oil.
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What does it mean to call a resource biotic?
Model answer
It comes from living or once-living matter, so timber, fish and crops are all biotic.
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What does it mean to call a resource abiotic?
Model answer
It comes from the non-living parts of the environment, so rock, metal ores, water and air are all abiotic.
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What makes a resource renewable?
Model answer
It replaces itself naturally within a human lifetime, so it can keep being used without the supply running out.
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What makes a resource non-renewable?
Model answer
It took millions of years to form and is being used far faster than it re-forms, so the total stock is finite.
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Why can a renewable resource such as a fish stock still be lost?
Model answer
Because if it is harvested faster than it can breed and replace itself, the stock falls and may collapse.
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Resource Management revision questions
- What does Resource Management cover in Edexcel GCSE Geography A?
- 3 subtopics: what natural resources are, and how people exploit them, how exploitation changes environments and the distribution and consumption of food, energy and water. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Resource Management organised?
- By the Edexcel 1GA0 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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