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Geography (9696)
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Free Geography (9696) study notes for Cambridge International A Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with examples and practice prompts you can continue inside the thinka app.
Core Physical Geography (AS Level)
The management of regional development
Hydrology and fluvial geomorphology
Discharge relationships within drainage basins
The human impact
Paper 1 – Physical Geography (AS core)
The drainage basin system
River channel processes and landforms
River flood hazards and impacts
Energy budgets
Weather processes and phenomena
Global warming and climate change
Plate tectonics
Tectonic processes and landforms
Mass movement hazards and impacts
Core Human Geography (AS Level)
Atmosphere and weather
Diurnal energy budgets
The global energy budget
The human impact
Paper 2 – Human Geography (AS core)
Global population
Population structure
Migration
Global water resources
Factors influencing water resources
Management of water resources
Urban growth
Urban structure and change
Sustainable urban development
Advanced Physical Geography Options (A Level)
Rocks and weathering
Weathering
Slope processes
The human impact
Paper 3 – Tropical and coastal environments
Tropical climates
Processes and landforms in tropical environments
Vegetation, soils and ecosystems in tropical environments
Changes and challenges in tropical environments
Coastal processes
Characteristics and formation of coastal landforms
Coral reefs
Physical and human challenges to the coastal environment
Advanced Human Geography Options (A Level)
Production, location and change
Economic transition
Population
Natural increase as a component of population change
Demographic transition
Population–resource relationships
The management of natural increase
Migration
Migration as a component of population change
Internal migration (within a country)
International migration
The management of international migration
Paper 3 – Hazardous and arid environments
Earthquake and volcanic hazards and impacts
Tropical cyclone hazards and impacts
Wildfire hazards and impacts
Challenges in multi-hazard environments
Arid climates
Processes and landforms in arid environments
Vegetation and soils in arid environments
Changes and challenges in arid environments
Settlement dynamics
Changes in rural settlements
Urban trends and issues of urbanisation
The changing structure of urban settlements
The management of urban settlements
Paper 4 – Climate change and environmental issues
Our future global climate
Socio-economic impacts of climate change
Governance of climate change
Energy supplies
Pollution and environmental degradation in rural areas
Pollution and environmental degradation in urban areas
Paper 4 – Trade, aid, tourism and disease
Global trade patterns and change
International organisations involved in trade and aid
International tourism
Distribution of diseases
Pathogenic diseases, their spread and impacts
Monitoring and response to pathogenic diseases
Tropical environments
Landforms of tropical environments
Humid tropical (rainforest) ecosystems and seasonally humid tropical (savanna) ecosystems
Sustainable management of tropical environments
Coastal environments
Sustainable management of coasts
Hazardous environments
Hazards resulting from tectonic processes
Hazards resulting from mass movements
Hazards resulting from atmospheric disturbances
Sustainable management in hazardous environments
Hot arid and semi-arid environments
Hot arid and semi-arid climates
Landforms of hot arid and semi-arid environments
Soils and vegetation
Sustainable management of hot arid and semi-arid environments
Production, location and change
Agricultural systems and food production
The management of agricultural change
Manufacturing and related service industry
The management of change in manufacturing industry
Environmental management
Sustainable energy supplies
The management of energy supply
Environmental degradation
The management of a degraded environment
Global interdependence
Trade flows and trading patterns
International debt and international aid
The development of international tourism
The management of a tourist destination
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