KS5 · AQA A-level Geography

Geography Revision

Study the confirmed AQA A-level route: water and carbon, coasts, hazards, global systems, changing places and population/environment, with the school-selected located studies and applied geographical reasoning.

Geography topics

18 topics
K5G1Ready

Water systems and drainage basins

Explain water stores, atmospheric and basin pathways, mass balance and hydrographs, then evaluate natural and human change.

Paper 1 · Physical coreStart revising →
K5G2Ready

Carbon systems and coupled climate

Trace carbon transfers and budgets across scales, explain coupled climate feedbacks and evaluate interventions and evidence.

Paper 1 · Physical coreStart revising →
K5G3Ready

Globalisation, trade and interdependence

Analyse global flows, enabling systems, unequal power, trade and market access, with TNC and product-chain study methods.

Paper 2 · Human coreStart revising →
K5G4Ready

Global governance and Antarctica

Study Antarctic geography and pressures, distinguish treaty and institutional roles and critically evaluate shared protection.

Paper 2 · Human coreStart revising →
K5G5Ready

Changing Places: concepts and evidence

Analyse place, belonging, connected change, meanings and representation through critical past-and-present evidence methods.

Paper 2 · Common place conceptsStart revising →
K5G6Ready

Geographical evidence in context

Apply maps, graphs, measurement, sampling, descriptive and inferential statistics, digital and qualitative evidence in geographical contexts.

Methods across all componentsStart revising →
K5G7Ready

Independent enquiry and fieldwork

Develop general enquiry knowledge: independent design, authentic collection, analysis, evaluated conclusions and responsible reporting.

Component 3 · General enquiry methodsStart revising →
K5G8Ready

Coastal systems, energy and sediment

Explain coastal energy, sediment budgets, feedback, waves, tides and interacting marine and slope processes.

Papers 1Start revising →
K5G9Ready

Coastal landforms and sea-level change

Explain erosional and depositional landscapes, geological controls, relative sea level and inherited coastal forms.

Papers 1Start revising →
K5G10Ready

Coastal management, risk and adaptation

Evaluate structures, sediment and slope measures, shoreline policies, integrated management, appraisal and unequal outcomes.

Papers 1Start revising →
K5G11Ready

Hazard concepts and tectonic processes

Connect Earth structure and plate processes with volcanic and seismic hazards, perception, risk, response and recovery.

Papers 1Start revising →
K5G12Ready

Storms, wildfire and multi-hazard environments

Explain cyclone and wildfire processes, compare recent events and examine local and wider multi-hazard environments.

Papers 1Start revising →
K5G13Ready

Population, environment and food security

Connect population and environment with agricultural systems, climate, soils, degradation and food-security responses.

Papers 2Start revising →
K5G14Ready

Population change, resources and Japan

Apply demographic measures, competing population-resource theories and dated Japanese evidence to conditional futures.

Papers 2Start revising →
K5G15Ready

Environment, health, malaria, asthma and Lincoln

Explain malaria and asthma, interpret Lincoln place-health evidence and evaluate environmental and healthcare responses.

Papers 2Start revising →
K5G16Ready

Amazon rainforest and River Exe

Apply coupled water and carbon processes to Amazon rainforest and Exe catchment evidence, interventions and uncertainty.

Papers 1Start revising →
K5G17Ready

Apple and the banana trade

Evaluate Apple and banana networks through location, flows, ownership, power, value, livelihoods and governance.

Papers 2Start revising →
K5G18Ready

Wickford North and Detroit: changing places

Compare Wickford North and Detroit through both demographic/cultural and economic/inequality lenses using compatible evidence.

Papers 2Start revising →

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