Eduqas GCSE Geography A

What is included

What this course covers

• Landscapes and Physical Processes (Theme 1, Component 1)

  • Topic 1 — Distinctive landscapes of the UK
  • Topic 2 — Landform process and change in two different and distinctive landscapes of the UK
  • Topic 3 — Drainage basins of the UK

• Rural-urban Links (Theme 2, Component 1)

  • Topic 4 — The urban-rural continuum in the UK
  • Topic 5 — Population and urban change in the UK
  • Topic 6 — Urban Issues in contrasting global cities

• Tectonic Landscapes and Hazards (Theme 3, Component 1 option)

  • Topic 7 — Tectonic processes and landforms
  • Topic 8 — Vulnerability and hazard reduction

• Coastal Hazards and their Management (Theme 4, Component 1 option)

  • Topic 9 — Vulnerable coastlines
  • Topic 10 — Managing coastal hazards

• Weather, Climate and Ecosystems (Theme 5, Component 2)

  • Topic 11 — Climate change during the Quaternary period
  • Topic 12 — Weather patterns and process
  • Topic 13 — Processes and interactions within ecosystems
  • Topic 14 — Human activity and ecosystem processes

• Development and Resource Issues (Theme 6, Component 2)

  • Topic 15 — Measuring global inequalities
  • Topic 16 — Causes and consequences of uneven development at the global scale and within one low income country (LIC) and one newly industrialised country (NIC)
  • Topic 17 — Water resources and their management
  • Topic 18 — Regional economic development

• Social Development Issues (Theme 7, Component 2 option)

  • Topic 19 — Measuring social development
  • Topic 20 — Consequences and responses to uneven social development

• Environmental Challenges (Theme 8, Component 2 option)

  • Topic 21 — Consumerism and its impact on the environment
  • Topic 22 — Management of ecosystems

• Applied Fieldwork Enquiry (Component 3)

  • The geographical enquiry process: posing questions and testing hypotheses
  • How evidence is collected
  • Processing and presenting evidence: percentages, means, maps, graphs and diagrams
  • Analysing fieldwork evidence, and relating it to wider geographical knowledge
  • Drawing evidenced conclusions, and evaluating the enquiry
  • Fieldwork methodologies (Table A)
  • Conceptual frameworks (Table B)

• Use of mathematics and statistics in geography

  • Numerical skills: number, area, scale, proportion, ratio and magnitude
  • Statistical skills: central tendency, spread, percentages and bivariate data
  • Cartographic skills
  • Graphical skills: constructing and interpreting graphs, charts and population pyramids

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