WJEC GCSE Geography

What is included

What this course covers

• Our Physical and Human World (Unit 1)

  • Topic 1 — Drainage basin and rivers
  • Topic 2 — Changing coastlines
  • Topic 3 — Migration
  • Topic 4 — Settlement change

• Developing Fieldwork Skills (Unit 2)

  • Topic 5 — Planning an enquiry
  • Topic 6 — Collecting evidence
  • Topic 7 — Processing and presenting evidence
  • Topic 8 — Analysing and applying evidence: selecting data, and interpreting trends and patterns
  • Topic 9 — Drawing conclusions from fieldwork enquiries, and referencing findings to wider concepts
  • Topic 10 — Evaluating techniques: each stage of the enquiry, and further areas of investigation

• Our Dynamic and Diverse World (Unit 3)

  • Topic 11 — The geography of inequality
  • Topic 12 — The highs and lows of our weather
  • Topic 13 — Wild weather
  • Topic 14 — Continual climate change
  • Topic 15 — Managing global challenges

• Sustainable Solutions (Unit 4)

  • Topic 16 — The concept of sustainability
  • Topic 17 — Making sustainable decisions

• Use of mathematics and statistics in geography

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

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