AQA A-level Geography Year 12 revision

Topic 1: Water and carbon cycles

It builds on what you learned at GCSE in The challenge of natural hazards and The living world, and takes it further.

There are 13 parts: we start with systems concepts, and finish with managing the cycles.

1. 1.1Systems concepts: open and closed systems, feedback and dynamic equilibrium40 questions
2. 1.2The water cycleFree 17 questions
3. 1.3Drainage basin hydrology: inputs, stores, flows and the water balance38 questions
4. 1.4Precipitation, the cryosphere and variability in the water cycle over time40 questions
5. 1.5Runoff and storm hydrographs: factors affecting flood risk76 questions
6. 1.6Human impacts on the water cycle: land use change, urbanisation and abstraction78 questions
7. 1.7The carbon cycle and feedback20 questions
8. 1.8Human impacts on the carbon cycle: fossil fuels, deforestation and land use change41 questions
9. 1.9Links between the water and carbon cycles and the global climateFree 75 questions
10. 1.10Ocean acidification and the oceans as a carbon store34 questions
11. 1.11Tropical rainforest case study: water and carbon stores, flows and human impacts35 questions
12. 1.12Arctic tundra case study: water and carbon stores, permafrost and human impacts23 questions
13. 1.13Managing the cycles: climate change mitigation, adaptation and carbon sequestration77 questions

Topic 2: Coastal systems and landscapes

It builds on what you learned at GCSE in Physical landscapes in the UK, and takes it further.

There are 12 parts: we start with coasts as systems, and finish with coastal case study.

1. 2.1Coasts as systems: energy, sediment sources, sediment cells and budgets43 questions
2. 2.2Waves, tides, currents and wind: coastal energy51 questions
3. 2.3Sub-aerial processes: weathering and mass movement at the coast86 questions
4. 2.4Coastal processes and landformsFree 21 questions
5. 2.5Geology and the coast: lithology, structure and coastal morphology37 questions
6. 2.6Coastal ecosystems: sand dunes, saltmarshes and succession40 questions
7. 2.7Sea level change and landforms of emergence and submergence34 questions
8. 2.8Coastal flooding, storm surges and erosion hazardsFree 36 questions
9. 2.9Climate change, sea level rise and impacts on coastal communities70 questions
10. 2.10Coastal management19 questions
11. 2.11Shoreline management plans, integrated coastal zone management and cost-benefit analysis27 questions
12. 2.12Coastal case study: processes, landforms, management and stakeholder conflict32 questions

Topic 3: Changing places

It builds on what you learned at GCSE in Urban issues and challenges and The changing economic world, and takes it further.

There are 8 parts: we start with the concept of place, and finish with place studies.

1. 3.1The concept of place: insider and outsider perspectives, attachment and sense of place39 questions
2. 3.2Place, meaning and representationFree 56 questions
3. 3.3Relationships and connections: flows, historical and global links shaping places35 questions
4. 3.4Endogenous and exogenous factors shaping place character and identity35 questions
5. 3.5Demographic, economic and cultural change: deindustrialisation and place decline76 questions
6. 3.6Place change and regeneration18 questions
7. 3.7Measuring place and regeneration success: deprivation indices, inequality and evaluation34 questions
8. 3.8Place studies: researching a local place and a contrasting place30 questions

Topic 4: Geographical skills and fieldwork

Geographical skills and fieldwork are the methods geographers use to collect, analyse and present evidence.

We will plan fieldwork enquiries, collect primary data, and use maps, graphs and G I S.

Then we use descriptive statistics and statistical tests, and evaluate our fieldwork and its conclusions.

1. 4.1Fieldwork and data skillsFree 55 questions
2. 4.2The fieldwork enquiry process: questions, hypotheses, planning, risk assessment and ethics81 questions
3. 4.3Primary data collection and sampling: physical (coastal) and human fieldwork techniques73 questions
4. 4.4Cartographic and graphical skills: OS maps, choropleths, isolines, scatter graphs, kite and radial diagrams72 questions
5. 4.5Descriptive statistics: averages, range, interquartile range and standard deviation70 questions
6. 4.6Statistical tests: Spearman's rank, chi-squared, Mann-Whitney U and Student's t-test76 questions
7. 4.7GIS, ICT, remote sensing and qualitative data analysis75 questions
8. 4.8Evaluating fieldwork: reliability, validity, limitations and drawing conclusions79 questions

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