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GCE 2008 Geography
Unit 1 Global Challenges 1: World at risk 2: Going global 60% AS
Unit 2: Geographical Investigations 3: Crowded coasts 4: Unequal spaces 40% AS
Unit 1 Global Challenges 1: World at risk 2: Going global 60% AS
Unit 2: Geographical Investigations 3: Crowded coasts 4: Unequal spaces 40% AS
Glacier de Triente Switzerland 1983
Glacier de Triente Switzerland 2001
“Choose smog, choose an inefficient transport system, choose congestion charging and Ken Livingstone, choose paying for the Olympics through your council tax, choose walking halfway across London because Cannon Street tube shuts at weekends, choose cramming on to a train at London Bridge every night, choose expensive drinks
and entrance fees, choose renting a house, choose annoying celebrity voices in lifts, choose tramps and beggars on every corner, choose pigeons, crowds and
****** tourists, choose having to force yourself every day not to jump in the Thames, choose wobbly bridges and
night buses, choose life, choose London !”
AssessmentAssessmentAssessmentAssessment Global Challenge 1 hour 30 minsGlobal Challenge 1 hour 30 minsData Response & guided essay Data Response & guided essay
Environmental InvestigationsEnvironmental Investigations 1 hour. 1 hour. Data response. Fieldwork Data response. Fieldwork
knowledge and researchknowledge and research
Global Challenge 1 hour 30 minsGlobal Challenge 1 hour 30 minsData Response & guided essay Data Response & guided essay
Environmental InvestigationsEnvironmental Investigations 1 hour. 1 hour. Data response. Fieldwork Data response. Fieldwork
knowledge and researchknowledge and research
GCE 2008 Geography Assessment for Unit 1: guided
essays
GCE 2008
10. Study Figure 10.
(a)Suggest why the various groups shown hold differing views about this global trade
(10)
(b) Explain how people can manage the environmental and social costs of globalisation for a better world.
(15)
GCE 2008 Geography
Assessment for Unit 2 – data response (a) Suggest some of the
physical and economic factors that may have made Florida a crowded coast.
(10)
(b) Using named examples, examine some of the environmental costs of coastal developments such as those shown in Florida.
(10)(c) Describe and explain a programme of fieldwork and research you would use to investigate the impacts of either coastal erosion or coastal flooding, along a stretch of coastline.
(15)
TOTAL 35 marks
A2A2
Unit 3
Contested Planet
60% A2
Unit 4:
Researching Global Futures
40% A2
Unit 3
Contested Planet
60% A2
Unit 4:
Researching Global Futures
40% A2
Unit 3 Contested PlanetUnit 3 Contested PlanetThe use and management of resources is a key issue for Geography and today’s world. Consumption patterns highlight stark inequalities between regions, countries and groups of people. Many resources arefinite, and rising consumption means that difficult decisions over the use of resources will have to be taken more frequently.
There are six compulsory topics:
Topic 1: Energy security
Topic 2: Water conflicts
Topic 3: Biodiversity under threat
Topic 4: Superpower geographies
Topic 5: Bridging the development gap
Topic 6: The technological fix?
Topic 1: Energy securityTopic 1: Energy security
Topic 2: Water conflictsTopic 2: Water conflicts
South Africa's demand for freshwater will exceed its supply by 2025
1.1 billion people lack access to clean water2.6 billion people lack access to basic sanitation
Topic 3: Biodiversity under threat
Topic 4: Superpower geographies
Topic 5: Bridging the development gap
Topic 6: The technological fix?
4. Researching 4. Researching GlobalGlobal futures futures4. Researching 4. Researching GlobalGlobal futures futures
Tectonic HazardsTectonic Hazards
AssessmentAssessment
Unit 3: Contested Planet 2 hour and 30 minutes examination paper comprising two sections and Resource Booklet including synoptic resources.
Unit 4:Geographical Research 1 hour and 30 minute examinationStudents answer one question that relates to the option they have studied.
Unit 3: Contested Planet 2 hour and 30 minutes examination paper comprising two sections and Resource Booklet including synoptic resources.
Unit 4:Geographical Research 1 hour and 30 minute examinationStudents answer one question that relates to the option they have studied.