Year 8
Geography
Places, processes and people
Changing Landscapes
Play together or sit the marked paper
The live room uses only rivers, coasts, ice, map and fieldwork questions. The assessment saves marked answers and parent progress.
Project Studio
9 Geography projects to make and write
Unit 1 of 29
Biomes and climate
Global patterns of climate, vegetation and life.
0 of 5 done
What this unit covers
- Locate major biomes and describe their climate
- Explain how climate shapes vegetation
- Describe human impacts on a biome
- 1Why biomes sit where they doFilm3 checks20 min · ★Start →
- 2Why climate decides vegetationFilm3 checks25 min · ★★Start →
- 3Human impacts on a biomeFilm3 checks30 min · ★★★Start →
- 4Tropical rainforests: layers, cycles and adaptationFilm3 checks30 min · ★★Start →
- 5Managing rainforest change in the AmazonFilm3 checks32 min · ★★★Start →
Unit 2 of 29
Migration, settlement and trade
Why people move and how places connect.
0 of 5 done
What this unit covers
- Explain push and pull factors for migration
- Describe how settlements grow and change
- Interpret trade and movement on maps
- 1Why people and animals moveFilm3 checks20 min · ★★Start →
- 2Push, pull and the journey betweenFilm3 checks25 min · ★★Start →
- 3How settlements grow and changeFilm3 checks25 min · ★★Start →
- 4Development, inequality and population movementFilm3 checks30 min · ★★★Start →
- 5Global trade: from raw material to consumerFilm3 checks32 min · ★★★Start →
Unit 3 of 29
Changing landscapes: rivers, coasts and ice
How water and ice shape land, how geographers investigate change, and how people respond.
0 of 7 done
What this unit covers
- Explain erosion, transport and deposition
- Describe landforms of rivers and coasts
- Evaluate flood and coastal management
- 1Erosion, transport and depositionFilm3 checks25 min · ★★Start →
- 2Flooding and how we manage itFilm3 checks30 min · ★★★Start →
- 3Glaciation and the landscapes it leftFilm3 checks28 min · ★★★Start →
- 4Reading an Ordnance Survey mapFilm3 checks25 min · ★★Start →
- 5A river's journey from source to seaFilm3 checks30 min · ★★Start →
- 6How waves shape a coastlineFilm3 checks30 min · ★★★Start →
- 7River fieldwork: test a geographical ideaFilm3 checks32 min · ★★★Start →
Unit 4 of 29
The world map
Locating and understanding the continents, countries and regions of the world.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Extend locational knowledge and deepen spatial awareness of the world's countries, focusing on Africa, Russia, Asia and the Middle East
- Extend locational knowledge and deepen spatial awareness of the world's countries, focusing on Europe and North and South America
Unit 5 of 29
The United Kingdom
The regions, counties and cities of the UK, and how they compare with a place beyond Europe.
0 of 4 done
What this unit covers
- Understand the geographical regions of the UK and their defining physical and human characteristics
- Understand the wider context of the UK, including the physical and human geography of its counties and regions, and its major cities
- Understand geographical similarities, differences and links between places through the study of the human and physical geography of a region within the UK
- Understand the physical and human characteristics of an area of the UK and a wider region of the world beyond Europe
Unit 6 of 29
The changing human world
Cities, hazards, economies and climate change as the human and physical worlds interact.
0 of 4 done
What this unit covers
- Understand urbanisation, including the causes and geographical effects, at country and city scale, of urbanisation and megacities
- Understand tectonic processes and hazards, including earthquakes and volcanic activity
- Understand economic activity in the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary sectors, and the change in their inter-relationships in different economic settings
- Understand how human and physical processes interact to influence, and be influenced by, climate change
Unit 7 of 29
Maps, GIS and data skills
Practical geographical skills: maps, GIS technology and interpreting data.
0 of 3 done
What this unit covers
- Build on knowledge of globes, maps and atlases and apply and develop this knowledge routinely in the classroom and in the field
- Use geographical information systems (GIS) to view, analyse and interpret places and data
- Interpret and analyse a range of quantitative and qualitative data, including statistical data on trends and relationships between geographical phenomena
Unit 8 of 29
Restless Earth: plates, earthquakes and volcanoes
Why the ground moves, what happens at each plate margin, and why the same size earthquake kills very different numbers of people.
0 of 4 done
What this unit covers
- Explain tectonic processes at plate margins and the hazards they create.
- Compare the effects of and responses to tectonic hazards in contrasting places.
- 1Inside the Earth and the theory of plate tectonicsFilmWorked example4 checks25 min · ★★★Start →
- 2Plate margins: destructive, constructive, conservative and collisionFilmWorked example4 checks25 min · ★★★Start →
- 3Earthquakes: primary and secondary effectsFilmWorked example4 checks25 min · ★★★Start →
- 4Living with tectonic hazards: prediction, protection and planningFilmWorked example4 checks25 min · ★★★Start →
Unit 9 of 29
Weather, climate and a warming world
Global circulation, UK weather, extreme events, and the evidence, causes and management of climate change.
0 of 4 done
What this unit covers
- Explain how global atmospheric circulation shapes climate and UK weather.
- Evaluate evidence for climate change and compare mitigation with adaptation.
- 1Global atmospheric circulation and why deserts sit where they doFilmWorked example4 checks25 min · ★★★Start →
- 2Extreme weather: tropical storms and UK floodingFilmWorked example4 checks25 min · ★★★Start →
- 3Climate change: the evidence and the causesFilmWorked example4 checks25 min · ★★★Start →
- 4Managing climate change: mitigation and adaptationFilmWorked example4 checks25 min · ★★★Start →
Unit 10 of 29
The urban and economic world
Urbanisation and megacities, life in a fast-growing city, change in a UK city, and how development is measured.
0 of 4 done
What this unit covers
- Explain the causes and effects of urbanisation at country and city scale.
- Compare development and economic change between contrasting places.
- 1Urbanisation and the rise of megacitiesFilmWorked example4 checks25 min · ★★★Start →
- 2Life in a fast-growing city: opportunities and challengesFilmWorked example4 checks25 min · ★★★Start →
- 3A changing UK city: decline, regeneration and sustainabilityFilmWorked example4 checks25 min · ★★★Start →
- 4Measuring development and the changing economic worldFilmWorked example4 checks25 min · ★★★Start →
Unit 11 of 29
Geographical skills and fieldwork enquiry
Ordnance Survey maps, GIS and data presentation, and running a real enquiry from question to conclusion.
0 of 3 done
What this unit covers
- Use OS maps, GIS and graphical techniques to describe and analyse places.
- Plan, carry out and evaluate a geographical enquiry using primary data.
Unit 12 of 29
The restless Earth
Why plates move, why earthquakes and eruptions happen where they do, and why people still live there.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Understand tectonic processes and hazards, including earthquakes and volcanic activity
- Understand how geographical processes interact to create distinctive human and physical landscapes that change over time
Unit 13 of 29
Weather, climate and living things
How climate is measured, how it has changed since the Ice Age, and how biomes match the climate they sit in.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Understand weather and climate, including the change in climate from the Ice Age to the present
- Understand the key processes in biology relating to biomes, vegetation belts and ecosystems
Unit 14 of 29
Rivers and coasts
The processes that carve valleys and cliffs, the landforms they leave, and how those landscapes keep changing.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Understand rivers, coasts and glaciation and the physical processes that give rise to landscapes, and how they change over time
- Understand how geographical processes interact to create distinctive human and physical landscapes that change over time
Unit 15 of 29
Population, cities and movement
Where people live and why they move, and a fair comparison of a region in Africa with a region in Asia.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Understand population and urbanisation, including international development and the causes and effects of migration
- Understand geographical similarities, differences and links between places through the study of human and physical geography of a region in Africa and a region in Asia
Unit 16 of 29
Reading the map like a geographer
Ordnance Survey maps, grid references and scale, then digital maps and a UK–world comparison.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Interpret Ordnance Survey maps, including using grid references, scale, topographical and other thematic mapping, and aerial and satellite photographs
- Use geographical information systems (GIS) to view, analyse and interpret places and data
- Understand the physical and human characteristics of an area of the UK and a wider region of the world beyond Europe
Unit 17 of 29
GCSE natural hazards
Tectonic and weather hazards, risk, and why the same magnitude event has different effects in different places.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Explain tectonic and weather hazards, their effects and the management of risk in contrasting places.
Unit 18 of 29
GCSE the living world
Ecosystems, tropical rainforests and hot deserts, with deforestation, desertification and sustainable management.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Describe ecosystems, tropical rainforests and hot deserts or cold environments, including sustainable management.
Unit 19 of 29
GCSE UK river landscapes
Fluvial processes, landforms down the long profile, flood hydrographs and hard and soft management.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Explain fluvial processes, landforms along the long profile, flood risk and management strategies.
Unit 20 of 29
GCSE UK coastal landscapes
Waves, erosional and depositional landforms, mass movement, and the cost of defending a coast.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Explain coastal processes, erosional and depositional landforms and hard and soft engineering.
Unit 21 of 29
GCSE urban issues and challenges
Global urbanisation, a major city in a lower-income country, a UK city, and what sustainable urban living means.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Explain global urbanisation, opportunities and challenges in a major city, and sustainable urban living.
Unit 22 of 29
GCSE the changing economic world
Measuring development, the demographic transition, closing the development gap, and economic change in the UK.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Explain development gaps, strategies to reduce them and economic change in the UK.
Unit 23 of 29
GCSE resource management
Food, water and energy: rising demand, unequal supply and the strategies used to close the gap.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- Explain the demand for food, water and energy and evaluate strategies to increase supply sustainably.
Unit 24 of 29
GCSE fieldwork, skills and Paper 3
Two fieldwork enquiries, cartographic and statistical skills, and the pre-release issue evaluation.
0 of 3 done
What this unit covers
- Plan enquiries, select sampling and presentation methods, analyse data and evaluate conclusions.
Unit 25 of 29
Where animals live
Biomes, a regional study through its wildlife, and reading maps the way a field biologist does.
0 of 3 done
What this unit covers
- Understand the key processes in biology relating to biomes, vegetation belts and ecosystems
- Understand geographical similarities, differences and links between places through the study of human and physical geography of a region in Africa and a region in Asia
- Interpret Ordnance Survey maps, including using grid references, scale, topographical and other thematic mapping, and aerial and satellite photographs
Unit 26 of 29
Places: what makes somewhere itself
Why two towns an hour apart can feel like different worlds, and how the UK fits together.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- ge-p-2
- ge-l-4
Unit 27 of 29
Maps: finding anywhere on Earth
Latitude and longitude on the globe, then six-figure grid references and scale on an OS map.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- ge-s-1
- ge-s-2
Unit 28 of 29
Climate: why the world's weather differs
The climate zones of the world and how a warming climate is changing where people live.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- ge-hp-2
- ge-hp-10
Unit 29 of 29
Travel: journeys and tourism
Planning a real route across Europe, and who wins and loses when tourists arrive.
0 of 2 done
What this unit covers
- ge-l-3
- ge-hp-9