Geography

Course content:

Year 7:

• What is a Geographer?
• Plate tectonics and hazards
• Population
• Africa
• Weather and Climate - Microclimate investigation

Year 8:

• Coasts
• Asia
• Middle East and Resources
• Russia
• Glaciation
• Place Study

Specification: AQA – GCSE Geography

Link to AQA website for GCSE Geography overview

Course Content

Year 9:

Climate change, Weather Hazards, Changing Economic World, Coasts.

Year 10:

Cold Environments, Resource Management, UK Physical Environments, Rivers, River Tillingbourne enquiry.

Year 11:

Urban Issues, Fieldwork Skills, Ecosystems, Tectonics, Pre-release.

Assessment

The course is assessed in three written exams:

Paper 1: Living with the physical environment – 35% of GCSE

Paper 2: Challenges in the human environment – 35% of GCSE

Paper 3: Geographical applications – 30% of GCSE

List of Resources

The best revision guides:

• Your exercise book
• GCSE AQA Geography for the Grade 9-1 Course CGP. (Available to order in Reprographics for £5.99).
• Practice paper pack. (Available to order in Y11 from Reprographics for £3.00)

The best revision websites:

• Cool Geography: https://www.coolgeography.co.uk/
• S-Cool: https://s-cool.co.uk/gcse/geography