AQA GCSE Geography
View Course TimetableTheme 1: The Challenge of Natural Hazards
Natural Hazards (1 lessons)
Explore natural hazards in Geography.
What Are Natural Hazards?
Learn what natural hazards are, the four types, and why risk varies between places.
Start LessonTectonic Hazards (4 lessons)
Explore tectonic hazards in Geography.
Plate Tectonics and Where Hazards Happen
Learn the Earth's layers, how plates move and where earthquakes and volcanoes happen worldwide.
Start LessonPlate Margins: Constructive, Destructive and Conservative
How plates move at constructive, destructive and conservative margins, causing earthquakes and volcanoes.
Start LessonEffects and Responses: Chile and Nepal
Compare primary and secondary effects and responses in the Chile 2010 and Nepal 2015 earthquakes.
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Why people live near tectonic hazards and how monitoring, prediction, protection and planning cut risk.
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Explore weather hazards in Geography.
Global Atmospheric Circulation
Learn how Hadley, Ferrel and Polar cells create pressure belts, winds, and global weather patterns
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Learn where tropical storms happen, how they form and their eye, eyewall and rain bands
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Learn the effects of tropical storms and how people respond, using Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
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How people reduce tropical storm damage, and how climate change may alter storms
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Learn UK weather hazards and the 2014 Somerset Levels floods: causes, impacts, management and evidence.
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Explore climate change in Geography.
Evidence for Climate Change
Learn how ice cores, tree rings, pollen and records show how climate has changed.
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Learn the natural and human causes of climate change and the enhanced greenhouse effect.
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Effects of climate change on people and nature, and how mitigation and adaptation respond
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Ecosystems (2 lessons)
Explore ecosystems in Geography.
Ecosystems and a UK Pond
Learn how living and non-living parts of a UK pond ecosystem link together and balance.
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Meet the world's six major biomes: where they are found and their climate and vegetation.
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Explore tropical rainforests in Geography.
Tropical Rainforest Characteristics
Explore the climate, layers, soils and fast nutrient cycle of a tropical rainforest.
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Learn how rainforest plants and animals adapt to survive and why biodiversity is at risk.
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Learn how the rate of Amazon deforestation has changed and the causes behind it.
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Discover how Amazon deforestation affects money, soil and climate, and why rainforests matter.
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Learn five strategies for managing tropical rainforests sustainably, and their strengths and weaknesses.
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Explore hot deserts in Geography.
Hot Desert Characteristics
Discover where hot deserts are, their climate and soils, and how everything in them is linked
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Discover how desert plants and animals survive extreme conditions and why desert biodiversity is fragile
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Sahara case study covering opportunities and challenges of developing a hot desert environment
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Why land on desert edges turns to desert, and the strategies that can stop it
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Explore cold environments in Geography.
Cold Environment Characteristics
Discover where cold environments are, their climate, permafrost and soils, and how everything is linked
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How plants and animals survive the cold, and why biodiversity there is low.
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Svalbard case study: mining, energy, fishing and tourism, plus cold, remoteness and building challenges
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Learn why cold environments are valuable wilderness and how they can be protected from damage.
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UK Physical Landscapes (1 lessons)
Explore uk physical landscapes in Geography.
UK Uplands, Lowlands and Rivers
Learn where the UK's main upland areas, lowland areas and river systems are found.
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Explore coastal landscapes in Geography.
Waves, Weathering and Mass Movement
Learn how waves, weathering and mass movement shape and weaken the coastline.
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How waves erode cliffs, move sediment by longshore drift and drop it in sheltered places
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Learn how rock type and structure shape headlands, bays, cliffs, platforms, caves, arches and stacks.
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Learn how beaches, dunes, spits and bars form, and spot them around Swanage, Dorset.
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Learn the costs and benefits of hard engineering, soft engineering and managed retreat on the coast.
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Why Lyme Regis needed coastal management, how it was protected and who disagreed.
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Explore river landscapes in Geography.
River Profiles and Processes
Learn how river valleys change downstream and how rivers erode, transport and deposit material.
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Learn how interlocking spurs, waterfalls and gorges form through river erosion in the upper course.
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Learn how meanders, ox-bow lakes, levees, flood plains and estuaries form along rivers.
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Use the River Tees to learn river landforms and what increases flood risk.
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Learn to read flood hydrographs: peak rainfall, discharge, lag time, limbs, base flow, flashy or gentle.
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Learn the costs and benefits of hard and soft engineering strategies for managing river flooding.
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Why Banbury needed a flood scheme, how it works and its social, economic, environmental issues.
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Explore glacial landscapes in Geography.
The Ice Age and Glacial Processes
How ice covered the UK and how glaciers weather, erode, move and deposit material.
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Learn how ice carved corries, arêtes, pyramidal peaks, glacial troughs, ribbon lakes and hanging valleys.
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Learn how erratics, drumlins and moraines form and spot glacial landforms in the Lake District.
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Learn how tourism, farming, forestry and quarrying use glaciated uplands and how conflicts are managed.
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Why tourists visit the Lake District, the impacts of tourism there and how they are managed
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Global Urbanisation (1 lessons)
Explore global urbanisation in Geography.
Urbanisation Around the World
Learn how the world is urbanising, why cities grow, and what megacities are.
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Explore a city in an nee: rio de janeiro in Geography.
Rio de Janeiro: Location and Growth
Learn where Rio de Janeiro is, why it matters, and why it grew so fast.
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Discover how Rio's growth brings better health, education, water, energy and jobs for its people.
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Learn the main challenges of Rio's rapid growth: favelas, services, jobs, crime and pollution.
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Learn how the Favela Bairro Project and Complexo do Alemao improved life for Rio's poor.
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Explore a uk city: bristol in Geography.
UK Population and Bristol's Importance
Where people and major cities are in the UK, and Bristol's location, importance and migration.
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How Bristol's cultural mix, jobs, transport and green spaces create opportunities for people
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Challenges of urban change in Bristol: deprivation, inequality, dereliction, brownfield building, waste, sprawl and commuters.
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Why Temple Quarter in Bristol needed regeneration and the main features of the project
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Explore sustainable cities in Geography.
Sustainable Urban Living
Learn how cities conserve water and energy, recycle waste, add green space and cut congestion.
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Global Development (3 lessons)
Explore global development in Geography.
Measuring Development
Learn how HICs, LICs and NEEs are classified and how development is measured and its limits.
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Learn how birth rate, death rate and natural increase change through the stages of development.
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Physical, economic and historical causes of uneven development, and effects on wealth, health, migration.
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Explore reducing the development gap in Geography.
Strategies to Reduce the Development Gap
Seven strategies used to reduce the development gap and how each can help a country.
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How tourism in Jamaica earns money and jobs, and the problems it brings
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Explore an nee: nigeria in Geography.
Nigeria: Location and Context
Where Nigeria is, why it matters in Africa and the world, and its context
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How Nigeria's economy has changed and what manufacturing and TNCs bring to development.
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How Nigeria's trade and aid have changed, and their effects on environment and lives.
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Explore the uk economy in Geography.
Changes in the UK Economy
Why the UK economy changed, and how services, finance, research and science parks grew.
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How industry affects the environment, Torr Quarry, and rural growth and decline
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How UK transport is being improved and how strategies try to close the north-south divide.
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Learn how the UK links to the world through trade, culture, transport, the EU and Commonwealth.
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Resource Management (3 lessons)
Explore resource management in Geography.
Why Food, Water and Energy Matter
Why food, water and energy support well-being, and how their supply and use differ worldwide.
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How the UK sources its food: imports, seasonal and organic demand, food miles and agribusiness.
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How UK water demand, supply and transfers work, and how the energy mix has changed.
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Explore food in Geography.
Global Food Security
Learn where food is in surplus or deficit, why demand rises, and what food insecurity causes.
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Learn how irrigation, hydroponics, biotechnology and appropriate technology boost food supply, with Thanet Earth.
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How organic farming, permaculture, seasonal food and Kenyan sand dams make food supplies more sustainable.
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Explore water in Geography.
Global Water Security
Where water is plentiful or short, why demand rises, and what insecurity causes
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Learn how dams, reservoirs, transfers and desalination increase water supply, with China's South-North scheme.
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Learn how conservation, groundwater management, recycling and grey water make water supplies sustainable, with Rajasthan example.
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Explore energy in Geography.
Global Energy Security
Where energy is used and supplied, why demand rises and what happens when supply fails.
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Learn the main renewable and non-renewable energy sources and weigh up fracking in the UK.
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Cut carbon footprints, conserve energy, and see a micro-hydro scheme power a Peruvian village.
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Issue Evaluation (1 lessons)
Explore issue evaluation in Geography.
The Issue Evaluation Exam
How the Paper 3 issue evaluation works: resource booklet, sources, stakeholders, options and justified decisions
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Explore fieldwork in Geography.
Planning a Geographical Enquiry
Understand the fieldwork rules and how to plan a suitable geographical enquiry safely.
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Choose physical and human data, use random, systematic and stratified sampling, and justify methods.
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How to present, analyse and evaluate fieldwork data and reach evidenced conclusions in geography.
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Cartographic Skills (4 lessons)
Explore cartographic skills in Geography.
Atlas Maps and Latitude and Longitude
Use latitude and longitude, and describe patterns and links between features on atlas maps.
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Use OS maps: four and six figure grid references, scale, distance and compass direction.
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Read contours, spot heights and gradient, and infer landscape and tourism from OS maps.
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Compare maps, draw sketch maps, read photographs, make sketches and annotate diagrams and graphs.
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Explore graphical skills in Geography.
Graphs and Charts
Choose, draw and read line, bar, pie, histogram, scatter graphs and population pyramids.
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Complete and read choropleth, dot, proportional symbol, isoline, desire line and flow line maps.
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Explore numerical and statistical skills in Geography.
Averages, Range and Quartiles
Use number, area, ratio and fieldwork sheets, then find averages, range, quartiles and cumulative frequency.
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Calculate percentage change, understand percentiles, draw trend lines, make predictions and spot misleading data.
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Explore using data and writing in Geography.
Using Data and Writing Strong Answers
Use qualitative and quantitative data, then write descriptive, analytical and critical answers.
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