AQA · 8035
Geography GCSE
Living with the physical environment, challenges in the human environment, and geographical applications including fieldwork and an issue evaluation.
Specification points
8
0 with marked evidence
Coverage
0%
Average paper standing
—
0 secure · 0 developing · 0 learning
How it is assessed
- Paper 1 — Living with the physical environment, 1h 30m, 88 marks (35%).
- Paper 2 — Challenges in the human environment, 1h 30m, 88 marks (35%).
- Paper 3 — Geographical applications: issue evaluation and fieldwork, 1h 15m, 76 marks (30%).
Taught lessons
Textbook-style lessons written for this course: explanation, a worked model answer, then marked checks. The full three-term plan lives on the Geography pathway page.
Open the Geography pathway and term planGCSE natural hazards
Tectonic and weather hazards, risk, and why the same magnitude event has different effects in different places.
GCSE the living world
Ecosystems, tropical rainforests and hot deserts, with deforestation, desertification and sustainable management.
GCSE UK river landscapes
Fluvial processes, landforms down the long profile, flood hydrographs and hard and soft management.
GCSE UK coastal landscapes
Waves, erosional and depositional landforms, mass movement, and the cost of defending a coast.
GCSE urban issues and challenges
Global urbanisation, a major city in a lower-income country, a UK city, and what sustainable urban living means.
GCSE the changing economic world
Measuring development, the demographic transition, closing the development gap, and economic change in the UK.
GCSE resource management
Food, water and energy: rising demand, unequal supply and the strategies used to close the gap.
GCSE fieldwork, skills and Paper 3
Two fieldwork enquiries, cartographic and statistical skills, and the pre-release issue evaluation.
Exam-style practice papers
Geography practice paper: physical and human challenges
Exam-style questions across landscapes, urban change, resources and fieldwork method.
Not yet attempted.
Sit this paperPaper 1 practice: living with the physical environment
Hazards, the living world, rivers and coasts, in the balance the real Paper 1 uses.
Not yet attempted.
Sit this paperPaper 2 and 3 practice: human environment, fieldwork and decisions
Urban change, development, resources, enquiry method, skills and issue evaluation.
Not yet attempted.
Sit this paperSpecification content and progress
Paper 1
- 3.1.1Natural hazardsNot started
Explain tectonic and weather hazards, their effects and the management of risk in contrasting places.
- 3.1.2The living worldNot started
Describe ecosystems, tropical rainforests and hot deserts or cold environments, including sustainable management.
- 3.1.3.1River landscapes in the UKNot started
Explain fluvial processes, landforms along the long profile, flood risk and management strategies.
- 3.1.3.2Coastal landscapes in the UKNot started
Explain coastal processes, erosional and depositional landforms and hard and soft engineering.
Paper 2
- 3.2.1Urban issues and challengesNot started
Explain global urbanisation, opportunities and challenges in a major city, and sustainable urban living.
- 3.2.2The changing economic worldNot started
Explain development gaps, strategies to reduce them and economic change in the UK.
- 3.2.3Resource managementNot started
Explain the demand for food, water and energy and evaluate strategies to increase supply sustainably.
Paper 3
- 3.3.2–3.3.3Fieldwork and geographical skillsNot started
Plan enquiries, select sampling and presentation methods, analyse data and evaluate conclusions.