Geography
AQA GCSE Geography: natural hazards, the living world, UK landscapes, urban and economic change, resources, and fieldwork.
Your Geography options
You study one environment, two landscapes and one resource. Ask your teacher if you're not sure.
Terminology: every key term, with pictures
Exam guide: the papers, marks, timings and levels
Case studies: required places, examples and sourced facts
Topics
The challenge of natural hazards
Paper 1, Section A: what makes earthquakes, volcanoes, tropical storms and extreme UK weather happen, how they affect people, and how climate change is changing our world.
G2The living world: ecosystems and rainforests
Paper 1, Section B: how ecosystems work, from a UK pond to the tropical rainforest, why rainforests are being cut down, and how they can be managed sustainably.
G3Hot deserts
Paper 1, Section B (option): how plants, animals and people survive in hot deserts, the chances and problems of developing them, and how desertification can be stopped.
G4Cold environments
Paper 1, Section B (option): how life survives in polar and tundra regions, the chances and problems of developing them, and why these wildernesses need protecting.
G5Physical landscapes in the UK
Paper 1, Section C: where the UK's uplands, lowlands and rivers are, and how to spot landforms on maps and photographs.
G6Coastal landscapes
Paper 1, Section C (option): how waves shape the coast into cliffs, arches, beaches and spits, and how we protect coastlines from the sea.
G7River landscapes
Paper 1, Section C (option): how rivers shape their valleys from source to mouth, why rivers flood, and how floods are managed.
G8Glacial landscapes
Paper 1, Section C (option): how ice carved the UK's mountains into corries, arêtes and U-shaped valleys, and how these landscapes are used and managed today.
G9Urban issues and challenges
Paper 2, Section A: why cities are growing so fast, the opportunities and challenges in a city in an emerging country and a UK city, and how cities can become more sustainable.
G10The changing economic world
Paper 2, Section B: how we measure development, why some countries are richer than others, how the gap can close, and how Nigeria's and the UK's economies are changing.
G11Resource management
Paper 2, Section C: why food, water and energy matter, how unequally they're shared around the world, and how the UK gets its own.
G12Food
Paper 2, Section C (option): why demand for food is rising, why some places go hungry, and how food supplies can be increased sustainably.
G13Water
Paper 2, Section C (option): why demand for water is rising, why some places run short, and how water supplies can be increased sustainably.
G14Energy
Paper 2, Section C (option): why demand for energy is rising, why supplies can be insecure, and how we can use energy more sustainably.
G15Geographical applications
Paper 3: how to use the pre-release booklet to make and justify a decision on an issue, and how to plan, carry out and evaluate your own fieldwork.
G16Geographical skills
All papers: reading maps, graphs and photographs, working with statistics, and answering each kind of exam question.