Edexcel A-level Geography Year 12 revision

Topic 1: Tectonic processes and hazards

There are 8 parts: we start with global distribution of hazards and why people live in hazardous areas, and finish with hazard management.

1. 1.1Global distribution of hazards and why people live in hazardous areas32 questions
2. 1.2Earth structure and plate tectonic theory: evidence and driving mechanismsFree 44 questions
3. 1.3Plate margins and hotspots: constructive, destructive, conservative and collision processes33 questions
4. 1.4Volcanic hazards: eruption types, primary and secondary hazards, VEI39 questions
5. 1.5Seismic hazards: earthquakes, tsunamis, liquefaction and magnitude measurement37 questions
6. 1.6Disaster risk: hazard risk equation, vulnerability, capacity, Degg and Park models73 questions
7. 1.7Impacts and responses: social, economic and environmental effects with contrasting case studies31 questions
8. 1.8Hazard management: prediction, monitoring, protection, preparedness and the hazard management cycle33 questions

Topic 2: Landscape systems, processes and change: coastal landscapes

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

There are 12 parts: we start with geology and the coast, and finish with coastal case study.

1. 2.1Geology and the coast: lithology, structure and coastal morphology37 questions
2. 2.2Coasts as systems: energy, sediment sources, sediment cells and budgets43 questions
3. 2.3Waves, tides, currents and wind: coastal energy51 questions
4. 2.4Sub-aerial processes: weathering and mass movement at the coast86 questions
5. 2.5Coastal processes and landformsFree 21 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: Globalisation

Globalisation is about the growing connections between countries, and who wins and who loses from them.

We will measure globalisation, explain its causes, and study global governance and the global shift.

Then we look at transnational corporations, migration, the impacts of globalisation, and the global commons.

1. 3.1Globalisation: features, measurement and indicesFree 42 questions
2. 3.2Causes of globalisation: technology, trade liberalisation, deregulation and transport35 questions
3. 3.3Global systems and governance: flows, interdependence, WTO, IMF, World Bank and trade blocs41 questions
4. 3.4Global shift: newly industrialised countries and changing economic geography35 questions
5. 3.5Transnational corporations: role, outsourcing and impacts on economies33 questions
6. 3.6Migration and globalisation: flows, causes and consequences31 questions
7. 3.7Impacts of globalisation: economic, social, cultural and environmental winners and losers36 questions
8. 3.8Global commons, sustainability and responses: Antarctica, ethical consumption and resistance42 questions

Topic 4: Shaping places: regenerating places

It builds on what you learned at GCSE in Changing cities, and takes it further.

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

1. 4.1The concept of place: insider and outsider perspectives, attachment and sense of place39 questions
2. 4.2Place, meaning and representationFree 56 questions
3. 4.3Relationships and connections: flows, historical and global links shaping places35 questions
4. 4.4Endogenous and exogenous factors shaping place character and identity35 questions
5. 4.5Demographic, economic and cultural change: deindustrialisation and place decline76 questions
6. 4.6Place change and regeneration18 questions
7. 4.7Measuring place and regeneration success: deprivation indices, inequality and evaluation34 questions
8. 4.8Place studies: researching a local place and a contrasting place30 questions

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

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