Geography (0460)

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Free Geography (0460) revision notes for Cambridge IGCSE students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.

Changing river and coastal environments

  • River and drainage basin processes

  • River landforms

  • River flooding, pollution and management

  • Coastal processes and landforms

  • Coastal hazards, tropical storms and management

  • Coral reefs and mangroves

Changing ecosystems

  • The Antarctic ecosystem

  • Threats to and management of Antarctica

  • The tropical rainforest ecosystem

  • Threats to and management of tropical rainforests

Tectonic hazards

  • Structure of the Earth and plate boundaries

  • Earthquakes: processes and features

  • Volcanoes: types, features and hazards

  • Impacts of and responses to tectonic hazards

Climate change

  • Evidence and natural causes of climate change

  • Human causes and the enhanced greenhouse effect

  • Impacts of climate change

  • Mitigation, adaptation and responses

Changing populations, towns and cities

Development and changing economies

  • Measuring development

  • Uneven development and sustainable development

  • Employment structures and industrial location

  • Globalisation and transnational corporations

  • Tourism and the Butler model

Resource provision

  • Farming types and farming systems

  • Global food supply and demand

  • Food insecurity, desertification and soil erosion

  • Energy types and global energy supply

  • Impacts and management of energy production

Geographical skills

  • Cartographic skills and map interpretation

  • Graphical skills and data presentation

  • GIS, photographs and image interpretation

  • Mathematical and statistical skills

Geographical investigations

  • The route to geographical enquiry and hypotheses

  • Fieldwork data collection techniques and equipment

  • Presenting and analysing fieldwork data

  • Conclusions, evaluation and limitations

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