Geography (9696)

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Hydrology and fluvial geomorphology

  • Discharge relationships within drainage basins

  • The human impact

Core Physical Geography (AS Level)

  • The management of regional development

Topic 1 Hydrology, river processes and hazards

  • The drainage basin system

  • River channel processes and landforms

  • River flood hazards and impacts

Atmosphere and weather

  • Diurnal energy budgets

  • The global energy budget

  • The human impact

Core Human Geography (AS Level)

    Rocks and weathering

    Topic 2 Atmospheric processes and global climate change

    Advanced Physical Geography Options (A Level)

    • Tropical environments

    • Coastal environments

    • Hazardous environments

    • Hot arid and semi-arid environments

    Topic 3 Earth processes and mass movements

    Population

    • Natural increase as a component of population change

    • Demographic transition

    • Population–resource relationships

    • The management of natural increase

    Advanced Human Geography Options (A Level)

    • Production, location and change

    • Environmental management

    • Global interdependence

    • Economic transition

    Topic 4 Population and migration

    Migration

    • Migration as a component of population change

    • Internal migration (within a country)

    • International migration

    • The management of international migration

    Topic 5 Water resources and management

    • Global water resources

    • Factors influencing water resources

    • Management of water resources

    Settlement dynamics

    • Changes in rural settlements

    • Urban trends and issues of urbanisation

    • The changing structure of urban settlements

    • The management of urban settlements

    Topic 6 Urban areas and management

    Tropical environments

    • Tropical climates

    • Landforms of tropical environments

    • Humid tropical (rainforest) ecosystems and seasonally humid tropical (savanna) ecosystems

    • Sustainable management of tropical environments

    Coastal environments

    • Coastal processes

    • Characteristics and formation of coastal landforms

    • Coral reefs

    • 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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