Cambridge A-level Geography Year 13 revision

Topic 7: Tropical environments

There are 4 parts: we start with biomes, and finish with tropical rainforest under stress.

1. 7.1Biomes: global distribution, climate, soils and vegetation72 questions
2. 7.2Ecosystems as systems: trophic levels, energy flow and nutrient cycling (Gersmehl model)Free 86 questions
3. 7.3Succession and ecosystem change: seral stages, climax communities and disturbance77 questions
4. 7.4Tropical rainforest under stress: deforestation, impacts and sustainable management25 questions

Topic 9: Hazardous environments

It builds on what you learned at AS Level in Rocks and weathering, and takes it further.

There are 7 parts: we start with plate tectonics theory, and finish with multi-hazard environments.

1. 9.1Plate tectonics theory: Earth structure, plate margins, hotspots and evidence41 questions
2. 9.2Volcanic hazards: types, processes, impacts and secondary hazards26 questions
3. 9.3Seismic hazards and tsunamis: causes, magnitude, impacts and secondary effects33 questions
4. 9.4Hazard concepts: hazard, risk, disaster, vulnerability and the disaster risk equation27 questions
5. 9.5Hazard perception and responses: Park's curve, Degg's model and the hazard management cycle69 questions
6. 9.6Tectonic hazards and managementFree 14 questions
7. 9.7Multi-hazard environments: case study of interacting hazards and risk32 questions

Topic 10: Hot arid and semi-arid environments

We will go through it step by step.

1. 10.1Hot arid and semi-arid environments: climate, landforms, ecosystems and sustainable management63 questions

Topic 11: Production, location and change

There are 5 parts: we start with global food supply, demand and patterns of food security and insecurity, and finish with globalisation.

1. 11.1Global food supply, demand and patterns of food security and insecurityFree 32 questions
2. 11.2Food production systems: Green Revolution, intensification and agribusiness37 questions
3. 11.3Environmental impacts of agriculture and climate effects on food production69 questions
4. 11.4Technology and sustainable food futures: GM crops, vertical farming, alternative proteins38 questions
5. 11.5Globalisation: causes, indicators (KOF index) and the global shift31 questions

Topic 12: Environmental management

There are 5 parts: we start with global energy supply and demand, and finish with resource stewardship.

1. 12.1Global energy supply and demand: energy mix, consumption patterns and players34 questions
2. 12.2Energy security and geopolitics: pathways, risks and national strategies35 questions
3. 12.3Unconventional fossil fuels: tar sands, shale gas and deepwater oil29 questions
4. 12.4Renewables, nuclear and energy transition: sustainable energy futures38 questions
5. 12.5Resource stewardship: circular economy, recycling and sustainable resource management32 questions

Topic 13: Global interdependence

There are 5 parts: we start with patterns of global trade, and finish with global governance institutions.

1. 13.1Patterns of global trade: flows, trading blocs and access to marketsFree 30 questions
2. 13.2Free trade, protectionism, tariffs, WTO and trade disputes36 questions
3. 13.3Trade and development: fair trade, aid, debt and trade-led growth70 questions
4. 13.4Globalisation and tradeFree 14 questions
5. 13.5Global governance institutions: UN, WTO, IMF, World Bank, G7/G20 and NGOs34 questions

Topic 14: Economic transition

There are 3 parts: we start with measuring development and global inequality, and finish with winners and losers.

1. 14.1Measuring development and global inequality: HDI, GNI, Gini and development gaps69 questions
2. 14.2Transnational corporations and global production networks25 questions
3. 14.3Winners and losers: economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts of globalisation and anti-globalisation responses23 questions

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