Eduqas GCSE Geography B

What is included

What this course covers

• Changing Places - Changing Economies (Theme 1, Components 1 and 2)

  • Topic 1 — Urbanisation in contrasting global cities
  • Topic 2 — Urban and rural processes and change in the UK
  • Topic 3 — A global perspective on development issues

• Changing Environments (Theme 2, Components 1 and 2)

  • Topic 4 — Shaping the landscape - coasts and coastal management
  • Topic 5 — Shaping the landscape - rivers and river management
  • Topic 6 — Weather and climate
  • Topic 7 — Climate change - cause and effect

• Environmental Challenges (Theme 3, Components 1 and 2)

  • Topic 8 — How ecosystems function
  • Topic 9 — Ecosystems under threat
  • Topic 10 — Water resources and management
  • Topic 11 — Desertification

• 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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