AQA GCSE Geography revision

Topic 1: The challenge of natural hazards

There are 8 parts: we start with tectonic hazards, and finish with managing climate change.

1. 1.1Tectonic hazardsFree 16 questions
2. 1.2Managing tectonic hazards: monitoring, prediction, planning and protection, with contrasting HIC and LIC case studies40 questions
3. 1.3Weather hazards and climate change56 questions
4. 1.4Global atmospheric circulation and climate zones78 questions
5. 1.5Tropical storms: formation, impacts and responses37 questions
6. 1.6Extreme weather in the UK: causes, impacts and the Somerset Levels flooding case study76 questions
7. 1.7Evidence for and causes of climate change (natural and human)75 questions
8. 1.8Managing climate change: mitigation (carbon capture, renewables, international agreements) and adaptation strategies70 questions

Topic 2: The living world

There are 7 parts: we start with global biomes, and finish with desertification and a hot desert development case study.

1. 2.1Global biomes: distribution, climate, soils and ecosystem interdependence77 questions
2. 2.2A small-scale UK ecosystem (pond, woodland or similar)84 questions
3. 2.3Biodiversity, ecosystem services and threats to ecosystems39 questions
4. 2.4Ecosystems and tropical rainforestsFree 27 questions
5. 2.5Tropical rainforest deforestation: causes, impacts and sustainable management case study41 questions
6. 2.6Hot deserts and cold environments18 questions
7. 2.7Desertification and a hot desert development case study: opportunities, challenges and reduction strategies78 questions

Topic 3: Physical landscapes in the UK

There are 8 parts: we start with coastal landscapes, and finish with glaciated upland case study (Lake District).

1. 3.1Coastal landscapesFree 65 questions
2. 3.2Coastal management: hard and soft engineering, managed retreat and a UK coastal case study38 questions
3. 3.3River landscapes60 questions
4. 3.4River flooding and management: hydrographs, causes, impacts and a UK flood management scheme77 questions
5. 3.5Glacial processes: freeze-thaw, plucking, abrasion, transport and depositionFree 42 questions
6. 3.6Landforms of glacial erosion: corries, arêtes, pyramidal peaks, glacial troughs, truncated spurs and ribbon lakes39 questions
7. 3.7Landforms of glacial deposition: moraines, drumlins and erratics49 questions
8. 3.8Glaciated upland case study (Lake District): land uses, tourism opportunities, conflicts and management strategies48 questions

Topic 4: Urban issues and challenges

There are 4 parts: we start with urbanisation and megacities, and finish with urban change and sustainability.

1. 4.1Urbanisation and megacitiesFree 55 questions
2. 4.2A city in an LIC or NEE: Rio de Janeiro case study21 questions
3. 4.3UK city case study (London or Bristol): location, migration, opportunities and challenges35 questions
4. 4.4Urban change and sustainability49 questions

Topic 5: The changing economic world

There are 6 parts: we start with development and the development gap, and finish with economic change in the UK.

1. 5.1Development and the development gapFree 64 questions
2. 5.2Reducing the development gap: aid, debt relief, fair trade, microfinance and intermediate technology86 questions
3. 5.3Tourism in an LIC or NEE: Jamaica case study23 questions
4. 5.4NIC or LIC case study (Nigeria or India): location, trade, TNCs, aid and quality of life32 questions
5. 5.5Globalisation and transnational corporations: causes, impacts and a TNC case study31 questions
6. 5.6Economic change in the UK19 questions

Topic 6: The challenge of resource management

The challenge of resource management is about supplying the world's growing need for food, water and energy.

We will look at global inequality in these resources and the idea of food, water and energy security.

Then we study the U K's supply and demand for food, water and energy, and ways to manage them sustainably.

1. 6.1Resource management: food, water and energyFree 38 questions
2. 6.2UK food, water and energy: supply, demand, energy mix and a resource management case study49 questions
3. 6.3Food in detail: food security, increasing supply and sustainable food27 questions
4. 6.4Water in detail: water security, increasing supply and sustainable water25 questions
5. 6.5Energy in detail: energy security, increasing supply and sustainable energy23 questions

Topic 7: Issue evaluation

There are 2 parts: we start with issue evaluation, and finish with making and justifying a geographical decision.

1. 7.1Issue evaluation: working through an AQA Paper 3 pre-release resource bookletFree 33 questions
2. 7.2Making and justifying a geographical decision: weighing evidence, stakeholders and sustainability35 questions

Topic 8: Fieldwork

There are 4 parts: we start with the enquiry process, and finish with presenting, analysing, concluding on and evaluating fieldwork data, including unfamiliar fieldwork questions.

1. 8.1The enquiry process: questions, hypotheses, risk assessment, sampling methods and ethical considerationsFree 40 questions
2. 8.2Physical fieldwork (river or coast): data collection methods such as channel width, depth, velocity, beach profiles and sediment size86 questions
3. 8.3Human fieldwork (urban or rural): land-use surveys, environmental quality surveys, pedestrian and traffic counts and questionnaires74 questions
4. 8.4Presenting, analysing, concluding on and evaluating fieldwork data, including unfamiliar fieldwork questions77 questions

Topic 9: Geographical skills

There are 5 parts: we start with map skills, and finish with extended-answer technique.

1. 9.1Map skills: OS maps, grid references, scale, distance, contours, relief and cross-sectionsFree 79 questions
2. 9.2Graphical skills: bar, line, pie, scatter, histogram, choropleth, isoline, flow-line and proportional symbol maps, population pyramids and climate graphs83 questions
3. 9.3Numerical and statistical skills: mean, median, mode, range, interquartile range, percentages, percentage change, ratios and Spearman's rank70 questions
4. 9.4Using GIS, satellite images, aerial photographs and annotated photo or sketch interpretation36 questions
5. 9.5Extended-answer technique: 9-mark and 12-mark evaluative questions with SPaG31 questions

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