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OCR GCSE Geography A J383
Ecosystems of the Planet
Topic overviewAbiotic and biotic components, and how ecosystems interactThe world’s biomes: where they are and what they are likeWhere the tropical rainforests are, and what they are likeWhere the coral reefs are, and what they are likeRainforest processes and nutrient cyclingTwo threatened ecosystems: a rainforest and a coral reef
Environmental Threats to Our Planet
Topic overviewClimate change through the Quaternary, and since 1000ADThe evidence for climate changeNatural causes of climate change, and the enhanced greenhouse effectThe consequences of climate changeThe world’s climatic regions and global atmospheric circulationHow global circulation produces extreme weatherTropical storms: causes, distribution and frequencyA drought caused by El Niño or La Niña
Fieldwork Skills
Geographical Skills
Topic overviewConstructing maps, and reading cross-sections and transectsCoordinates, scale, distance and reading information from a mapGradient, contours, spot heights and GISChoosing, constructing and presenting graphs and chartsReading and interpreting the main graph and chart typesNumber, area, scale and the relationships between unitsProportion and ratio, and measures of central tendency and spreadPercentages and percentiles, and designing data collection sheetsReading tables, and describing relationships in bivariate dataTrend lines and lines of best fitPredicting from data, and spotting weak statistical presentationDrawing and justifying conclusions from dataInterpreting images and written sources, and recognising biasJudging the limits of maps, graphs, statistics and images
Landscapes of the UK
People of the Planet
Topic overviewDefining and measuring developmentThe global pattern of development: ACs, EDCs and LIDCsWhy development is uneven, and the role of aidA developing or emerging country: its context and economyRostow’s model and the country’s path of developmentCities, megacities and world citiesWhy urban growth rates differ around the worldRapid urbanisation in poorer countries: causes and effectsA major city in a poorer or emerging country
People of the UK
Topic overviewThe UK’s trade, media and cultural links with the worldThe UK’s geographical diversity and its inequalitiesUneven development within the UK, and the effects of economic growthHow the UK’s population structure has changed since 1900Immigration into the UK in the twenty-first centuryUrban trends in the UK and their effectsA major UK city: its people, challenges and ways of life
UK Environmental Challenges
Topic overviewAir masses, the North Atlantic Drift and the UK’s extreme weatherA UK flood event: causes, effects and responsesHow people use, modify and change UK ecosystemsThe UK’s renewable and non-renewable energy sourcesChanging UK energy supply and demand, and sustainable useRenewables in the UK, and the future of fossil fuelsWhat shapes the UK’s energy choices
People of the UK
- 7 subtopics
- 21 things to know
- Component 01
What People of the UK covers
People of the UK is examined in Component 01, Living in the UK Today. It covers the UK’s trade, media and cultural links with the world, the UK’s geographical diversity and its inequalities, uneven development within the UK, and the effects of economic growth, how the UK’s population structure has changed since 1900, immigration into the UK in the twenty-first century, urban trends in the UK and their effects and A major UK city: its people, challenges and ways of life.
Where it is assessed
Component 01
Living in the UK Today, 30% of the GCSE.
Check the OCR specification ↗The 7 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- The UK’s trade, media and cultural links with the worldExports and imports, the European Union and the United States as the UK's biggest markets, its leading manufactured and service exports, the goods it imports in bulk, why it imports so much food, how its creative industries sell abroad, and trade deficits.Open →
- The UK’s geographical diversity and its inequalitiesGeographical inequality, regional differences in employment and average income, life expectancy and its link with wealth, educational attainment, ethnicity and where the UK's ethnic diversity is concentrated, and why broadband access varies and why it matters.Open →
- Uneven development within the UK, and the effects of economic growthUneven development, how location and deindustrialisation hold regions back, infrastructure and investment, enterprise zones and other ways government narrows or widens inequality, what decline and rapid growth do to a place, and Redcar after its steelworks closed in 2015, with the Teesworks redevelopment.Open →
- How the UK’s population structure has changed since 1900How the UK's population pyramid has changed since 1900, why its death and birth rates fell, the Demographic Transition Model and where the UK sat in 1900 and sits today, an ageing population and its causes, the dependency ratio, pressure on public spending, and government responses.Open →
- Immigration into the UK in the twenty-first centuryImmigration and emigration, net migration, economic migrants and asylum seekers, workers from Poland, Lithuania and Romania after EU enlargement, study and family as reasons to move, and the economic and social benefits, costs and pressures of immigration.Open →
- Urban trends in the UK and their effectsSuburbanisation, counter-urbanisation and re-urbanisation and their causes, who moves into regenerated centres, the loss of countryside and inner-city trade, commuting, village house prices and services, gentrification, and reused brownfield land.Open →
- A major UK city: its people, challenges and ways of lifeA city's regional, national and global importance, its sphere of influence, national and international migration and how they shape it, ethnic segregation, housing types, leisure and the Central Business District, the challenges of finding homes, brownfield sites, congestion and waste and sustainable responses, and London, with its census population, the Olympic Park, the Elizabeth line and the Ultra Low Emission Zone.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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How do suburbanisation, counter-urbanisation and re-urbanisation each move people around and beyond a UK city?
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Define exports and imports, and name the UK's largest export market and its biggest single trading partner.
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Which goods and services does the UK sell abroad, what does the UK import, and how do creative industries contribute?
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What is meant by geographical inequality within a country?
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How do patterns of employment differ between the south east of England and much of the north?
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What is meant by uneven development?
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How can a region's location on its own hold its economy back?
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Why did the UK's death rate fall sharply after 1900?
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What is the difference between immigration and emigration?
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What is net migration?
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What is suburbanisation?
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What should you be able to say about the importance of your chosen city within its own region?
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What is meant by a city's sphere of influence?
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What is meant by an export?
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What does average income reveal about the UK's regions?
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What is meant by deindustrialisation?
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Why did the UK's birth rate fall during the twentieth century?
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What is an economic migrant?
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What causes suburbanisation?
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What kinds of link tie a major city to the wider world?
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The same content, four other ways.
Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Export vs Import
Export: a good or service produced in one country and sold to buyers in another. Import: a good or service bought into a country from producers based abroad.
Immigration vs Emigration
Immigration: people moving into a country to live there. Emigration: people leaving a country to live elsewhere.
Economic migrant vs Asylum seeker
Economic migrant: someone moving to another country mainly to find work or a better standard of living. Asylum seeker: someone who has fled their own country and asks another for protection from persecution.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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What is meant by an export?
Model answer
A good or a service that is produced in one country and sold to buyers in another.
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What is meant by an import?
Model answer
A good or a service that is bought into a country from producers based abroad.
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Which group of countries together buys the largest share of the goods and services the UK sells abroad?
Model answer
The member states of the European Union, which taken together form the UK's biggest market.
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Which single country is the UK's largest trading partner?
Model answer
The United States of America, which buys more UK exports than any other individual nation.
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Name three manufactured goods that are among the UK's leading exports.
Model answer
Cars, aircraft parts and machinery, along with medicines made by the pharmaceutical industry.
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Which kind of export earns the UK more than manufactured goods do?
Model answer
Services, such as banking, insurance, legal advice, consultancy and higher education.
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People of the UK revision questions
- What does People of the UK cover in OCR GCSE Geography A?
- 7 subtopics: the uk’s trade, media and cultural links with the world, the uk’s geographical diversity and its inequalities, uneven development within the uk, and the effects of economic growth, how the uk’s population structure has changed since 1900, immigration into the uk in the twenty-first century, urban trends in the uk and their effects and a major uk city: its people, challenges and ways of life. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is People of the UK organised?
- By the OCR J383 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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