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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.
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
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
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
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
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
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