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iGCSE
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The Natural Environment iGCSE Geography
The main types and features of volcanoes
The main features of earthquakes
Distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes
Effects of earthquakes and volcanoes on people and the environment
Reducing the impacts of earthquakes and volcanoes
Population and settlement – iGCSE Geography
Introduction to population
World Population Increase
Over-population and under-population
The main causes of a change in population size
Natural Population Change
Population Policies
A country with a rate of high population growth – China
A country which is over-populated – Bangladesh
A country which is under-populated – Australia
A country with a low rate of population growth or decline – Japan
What is migration and why do people migrate?
What are the impacts of migration?
International migration from Syria to Europe
Population structure
Population Pyramids
Japan – A country with a high dependent population
What is population density?
What factors affect population density and distribution?
A case study of a sparsely populated area – Himalayan Mountains
A case study of a densely populated area – Greater London
What is a settlement?
Patterns of settlement
Edexcel iGCSE Geography Revision
AQA Geography
The Challenge of Natural Hazards
Physical Landscapes in the UK
The Living World
The Changing Economic World
How are countries classified?
What does world development look like?
How reliable are economic indicators of development?
How is social development measured?
Why is the Human Development Index important?
Development, population change and the demographic transition model
What factors influence development?
Strategies for reducing the development gap
How can the growth of tourism reduce the development gap? Jamaica Case Study
How can the growth of tourism reduce the development gap? Tunisia Case Study
What is Nigeria’s location and importance?
What is Nigeria’s wider context?
How is Nigeria’s economy changing?
What is the role of transnational companies in Nigeria?
How are Nigeria’s trading and political relationships changing?
International Aid in Nigeria
What are the environmental impacts of economic development in Nigeria?
What are the effects of economic development in Nigeria on quality of life?
Economic change in the UK
De-industrialisation in the UK
The UK’s post-industrial economy
What are the impacts of industry on the physical environment?
How is the rural landscape changing?
Developments in infrastructure in the UK
The north-south divide
The UK in the Wider World
Urban issues and challenges
AQA Resource Management
Geographical Skills
Topics
Climate Change
What is climate change?
Is climate change happening?
What causes climate change?
What are the effects of climate change?
How can the impacts of climate change be managed?
Coasts
What are waves?
Constructive Waves
Destructive Waves
What is chemical and mechanical weathering?
What is mass movement?
What is coastal erosion?
Cliffs and wave-cut platforms
Landforms of coastal erosion
Bays and Headlands
Erosion of a headland
What is coastal transportation?
What is longshore drift?
What is coastal deposition?
Landforms of coastal deposition
Salt Marsh
How are sand dunes formed?
Coastal Management
Hard Engineering Coastal Management
Soft Engineering Coastal Management
Coastal Realignment
Sandscaping at Bacton
Happisburgh Case Study
Blakeney Point Case Study
The Holderness Coast – Case Study
Dorset Coast – Case Study
Chesil Beach
Durdle Door
Lulworth Cove
Old Harry Rocks
Earthquakes
What is an earthquake?
Why do earthquakes happen?
What are the effects of earthquakes?
How are earthquakes measured?
What factors influence the effects and response to tectonic activity?
Two Earthquakes Compared – Nepal and L’Aquila
Can the risks of earthquakes be reduced?
What is a tsunami?
The Kobe Earthquake 1995
The 1999 Turkish Earthquake
Earthquakes in California
Gujarat Earthquake 2001
L’Aquila Earthquake 2009
Haiti Earthquake 2010
Japan Earthquake 2011
Christchurch Earthquake Case Study
Nepal Earthquake 2015
Amatrice Earthquake Case Study
Lombok Indonesia Earthquake 2018 Case Study
2018 Sulawesi Indonesia Earthquake and Tsunami Case Study
Ecosystems
What is an ecosystem?
What is a Biome?
Humans and the Biosphere
How do changes affect the balance of an ecosystem?
UK Ecosystems
Epping Forest Case Study
The Tropical Rainforest
What is a Tropical Rainforest?
Where are tropical rainforests located?
What is the structure of the tropical rainforest?
What is the climate of the rainforest?
The nutrient cycle in the rainforest
How has rainforest vegetation adapted to the climate?
How have animals adapted to the rainforest environment?
Biodiversity and Tropical Rainforests
Changing rates of rainforest deforestation
What are the causes of deforestation in the Amazon?
What are the effects of deforestation in the Amazon?
What is the value of the tropical rainforest?
Sustainable Management of the Tropical Rainforest
Sustainable Management of the Amazon Rainforest
Temperate Deciduous Woodland
What is a Temperate Deciduous Woodland?
Where are Temperate Deciduous Woodlands Located?
What is the structure of the Temperate Deciduous Woodland?
How did the temperate deciduous woodland get like this?
How has the vegetation in the temperate deciduous forest adapted to the climate?
What is the impact of humans on the temperate deciduous woodland?
Sustainable development in the Temperate Deciduous Woodland
Taiga
What is Taiga?
Where is Taiga located?
How did the Taiga get like this?
What is the impact of humans on the Taiga?
Sustainable development in the Taiga
Savanna
What is savanna?
Where is savanna located?
How did the savanna get like this?
What is the impact of humans on the savanna?
Sustainable development in the savanna
Desert
What is a hot desert?
Where are deserts located?
Why are deserts located along the tropics?
Interdependence in the hot desert
Biodiversity in hot deserts
How has hot desert vegetation adapted to the climate?
How have animals adapted to the desert?
Opportunities and Challenges in the Sahara Desert
Opportunities and Challenges in the Thar Desert
Opportunities and Challenges in the Western Desert
What is the impact of humans on the desert?
Reducing the risk of desertification
Sustainable development in the desert – The Great Green Wall
Cold Environments – Polar and Tundra
What are cold environments?
Where are polar and tundra environments located?
What are the physical characteristics of cold environments?
How have animals adapted to cold environments?
How have plants adapted to cold environments?
How is a cold environment interdependent?
Alaska Case Study
Svalbard Case Study
Where is Tundra located?
Protection of cold environments as wilderness areas
How did Tundra get like this?
What is the impact of humans on Tundra?
Environmental Problems
What is Acid Rain?
What problems are caused by acid rain?
What is the greenhouse effect?
What is global warming?
What causes global warming?
What problems are caused by global warming?
What are the benefits of global warming?
Erosion and Weathering
What is erosion?
What does scenery formed by erosion look like?
What is weathering?
What are the different types of weathering?
Food Resources
What are the differences in global calorie intake and food supply?
Why is demand for food growing?
What affects the amount of food we have?
How does food insecurity affect people?
How does food insecurity affect the environment?
How can we increase the amount of food produced globally?
What is the new green revolution?
Almería in Spain: a large-scale agricultural development
What is a sustainable food supply?
Sustainable Food Supplies in an LIC – Bangladesh
Glaciation
What is glaciation?
How do glaciers erode?
How do glaciers move?
How do glaciers transport material?
Why does glacial deposition happen?
Glacial Landforms – Upland Features
Which landforms result from moving or melting ice?
Glacial Landforms – Lowland Features
Glacial landforms in the Lake District
Economic activities in glaciated upland areas
Glaciation Photo gallery – Goat Fell, Isle of Arran
Urban Growth in India – Mumbai
What is the location and importance of Mumbai?
Why is Mumbai growing?
What are Mumbai’s social and economic opportunities?
What challenges have been caused by urban growth in Mumbai?
How is urban planning improving the quality of life for the urban poor in Mumbai?
Urban Growth in Nigeria – Lagos
Location of Lagos
The Growth of Lagos
What causes population growth in Lagos?
How has urbanisation helped Nigeria to develop?
How has the growth of Lagos caused inequality?
Economic opportunities and challenges in Lagos
Lagos squatter settlements
Lagos Water Supply and Pollution
Traffic Congestion in Lagos
Urban Planning in Lagos
Urban Growth in Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
How is urban planning improving the quality of life for the urban poor in Rio de Janeiro?
What is the location and importance of Rio de Janeiro?
How has Rio de Janeiro grown?
What are the social and economic opportunities associated with the growth of Rio?
What challenges are associated with the growth of Rio?
How is urban planning improving the quality of life for the urban poor in Rio de Janeiro?
Limestone
What is limestone?
How does weathering affect limestone?
Limestone (karst features) – Overview
Limestone features below ground
Limestone features above ground
Limestone and Recreation
How are limestone landscapes used?
Limestone Case Study – Malham, The Yorkshire Dales
Sustainable management of quarrying
Migration
What is migration?
What are the main types of migration?
Why do people migrate?
Push and Pull Factors
Migration into Europe
Plate Tectonics
Structure of the Earth
Plate Boundaries
What is Continental Drift?
Why do tectonic plates move?
Where do volcanoes and earthquakes happen?
Conservative Plate Margins
Constructive Plate Margins
Destructive Plate Margins
Volcanic Hot Spots
Pacific Ring of Fire
Fold Mountains
Population
What is population distribution?
What is population density?
What factors affect population density?
How has world population changed?
What causes population change?
What is life expectancy?
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
What are population pyramids?
Population change in LEDCs
Case Study: China
Population Case Study: Kerala, India
Population change in MEDCs
Resources
Types of Energy
Non-renewable Energy
Renewable Energy
Resource Management
The significance of food, water and energy
An overview of global inequalities in the supply and consumption of resources
The demand for food in the UK
Carbon footprints, ‘food miles’ and moves towards local sourcing of food
Why is there a trend towards agribusiness?
How has demand for water in the UK changed?
Carbon footprints, ‘food miles’ and moves towards local sourcing of food
Water quality and pollution management in the UK
Where are the areas of water deficit and surplus in the UK?
Water Transfer in the UK
How is demand for energy changing in the UK?
How is the UK’s energy mix changing?
What are the economic and environmental issues of energy production?
Rivers
Weathering and mass movement in river valleys
How do rivers erode?
How do rivers transport material?
Why do rivers deposit sediment?
How does geology affect the formation of river landforms?
The Long Profile of a River
Cross profiles of a river
Landforms in the upper course of a river
Landforms in the middle course of a river
Landforms in the lower course of a river
How do weather and climate affect river landscapes?
Human activity in River Landscapes
What are the human and physical factors that affect flood risk?
How does flooding affect humans and the environment?
The River Tees – landforms of erosion and deposition
The Water Cycle
What is a river basin?
River Discharge
Flood Hydrographs
River Flooding and Management
Rivers – Hard Engineering
Rivers – Soft Engineering
Case Study – Ganges/Brahmaputra River Basin
The Great Floods of 2000
Kerala flood case study
Rocks, Resources and Scenery
Geological time is on a different time to human time
Rock Types and the Rock Cycle
Rock and Weathering
Different rocks create contrasting landforms and landscapes
How are granite landscapes used?
How are limestone landscapes used?
What is the impact of quarrying?
Sustainable management of quarrying
Settlements
What is a settlement?
What is the site and situation of a settlement?
What are the functions of a settlement?
What is a settlement hierarchy?
What do we mean by land use?
What are land use zones?
CBD
Inner City
Suburbs
Rural Urban Fringe
What are landuse models?
What are landuse models in MEDCs like?
What are landuse models for LEDCs like?
What are shanty towns / favelas?
What are shanty town improvement schemes?
Tourism
What is tourism?
How has tourism grown?
What is the impact of tourism?
Tourism in an MEDC – The UK
What are National Parks?
The National Parks of England and Wales
Problems in National Parks
Castleton A tourist honey pot in The Peak District
Castleton – Case Study Page
Tourism in an LEDC – Kenya
Ecotourism
Ecotourism – Case Study
Urbanisation
What is urbanisation?
What causes urbanisation?
Million Cities
What is a megacity?
Counter-urbanisation
Urban Problems in LEDCs
Case Study – Rio de Janerio
Case Study – Favela
Self Help Schemes
Urban Problems in MEDCs
Case Study – Inner City Redevelopment – London’s Docklands
Volcanoes
What is a volcano?
Where are volcanoes located?
What is the Ring of Fire?
What are active, dormant and extinct volcanoes?
What are the main features of a volcano?
What are the different types of volcanoes?
What are lahars and pyroclastic flows?
What is a supervolcano?
Why do people live close to volcanoes?
Can the risks of volcanic eruptions be reduced?
The 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens
The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo
The 2000 eruption of Popocatepetl
The 2010 eruption of Mount Merapi
Eyjafjallajokull Case Study
Anak Krakatau & Sunda Strait Tsunami Indonesia Case Study 2018
Weather and Climate
What are climate zones?
What factors affect climate?
What are climate graphs?
What is an air mass?
What influences an air mass?
Why is the weather of the UK so changeable?
What are the air masses that affect the UK?
What is precipitation?
What is relief rainfall?
What is frontal rainfall?
What is convectional rainfall?
What is global atmospheric circulation?
What is atmospheric pressure?
What is high pressure?
What is low pressure?
How do ocean currents transfer and redistribute heat energy around the Earth?
Weather hazards in the UK
Extreme weather in the UK – Beast from the East
Extreme Weather in the UK Summer Heatwave 2018
Extreme Weather in the UK – Storm Ciara
What is the difference between a tornado and a hurricane?
What are tropical storms?
How do tropical storms form?
Planning for tropical storms
Cyclone Eline
Cyclone Idai Case Study
Hurricane Andrew
Hurricane Florence Case Study
Hurricane Katrina Case Study
Hurricane Michael Case Study
Typhoon Haiyan Case Study
Typhoon Jebi Case Study
Typhoon Mangkhut Case Study
Arid Environments and Drought
What are the causes of drought?
Skills
Cartographic Skills – Atlas Maps
Cartographic Skills – OS Maps
Compass Directions
Data Presentation in Geography
Evaluating a source in Geography
GIS
Field sketches in Geography
Fieldwork
River Fieldwork Techniques
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Statistical Techniques in Geography
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