Could

GCSE GCSE GeograpGeographyhy be the right direction for youyou?

The world in which we live is likely to change more in the next 50 years than it has ever done before. Geography explains why, and helps to prepare you for those changes.

Geography tackles the big issues:• environmental responsibility• our global interdependence• cultural understanding and tolerance• commerce, trade and industry.

Geographical study fosters these qualities and provides a firm basis for life-long learning.

The transferable skills which geography fosters are an asset in the complex world of employment today. Geography is about the future and encourages flexible thinking.

GCSE AQA Specification A

Unit 1 Physical geography

Water on the Land:

River valleys

Flooding and flood management

Water supply issues

The coastal zone:

Distinctive landforms

Consequences of rising sea level

Coastal management

Coastal habitat and conflicts

Ice on the Land:

Glacial budget

Distinctive glacial landforms

Tourism in glaciated areas

The Restless Earth:

Earth’s structure, plate margins

Volcanic hazards

Supervolcanoes

Earthquake hazards

TsunamisChallenge of weather and climate:

UK characteristics

Depressions and anticyclones

Global climate change

Tropical storms

Unit 2 human geography

Population change:

Population structures

Consequences of rapid growth

Impact of an ageing population

Migration – causes and consequences

Changing urban environments:

Functions and land uses

Need for planning

Rapid urbanisation and industrialisation effects

Characteristics of a sustainable city

The Development Gap:

Contrasts in development

Physical and human factors that influence development

Ways to reduce global inequalities

Inequalities within the E.U

Pressures on rural urban fringe:

Social and economic changes in Lake District

Sustainability

Human influences on commercial farming in East Anglia

Change and conflict in tropical and subtropical rural areas

Globalisation:

The development of manufacturing and services across the globe

The demand for energy

Sustainable development

Global demands for food

Tourism:

Global growth of tourism – reasons, economic significance, impacts

Effective management in UK

Consequences of mass tourism

Sustainable tourism – ecotourism

HOW WILL YOU BE ASSESSED?

Your final grade in Geography will be based on:- 2 final written exams – one paper based on

physical geography and the other on human geography (each worth 37.5%)) You will have a choice of 7 questions on paper 1 and need to answer three of them. On paper 2 you will have a choice of 6 and need to answer 3.

Two tiers of Exam entry are available:Higher: Grades A* to DFoundation: Grades C to G Controlled assessment – 25% 6 hour write up

under direct supervision in school

GCSE GeographyWhat useful life skills will I acquire?

• Team work • Creative thinking• Independent enquiry skills• How to solve problems and justify decisions made –

essential for most jobs and careers• How to collect and interpret data through fieldwork.• Using secondary data to find out about different

peoples, cultures & environments – research and filtering skills

• Reflective, analytical skills and communication skills

Geography helps to develop broadminded and capable independent learners

who are better equipped to cope with life’s challenges.

. Geography brings together all other subjects combines a knowledge of science and an understanding of the arts.. geography will give you an

oversight that no other subject can give. It therefore combines well with any GCSE subject.

• make a concise report• handle data• ask questions and find answers• make decisions about an issue• analyse material• organise themselves• think creatively and independently

• good communicators• spatially aware• socially, economically and environmentally aware• problem solvers• good team players• computer literate• well rounded, flexible thinkers

Nationally, Geography has one of the best graduate employment records in the country! Compared to other

subjects, geography graduates are among the most employable. They possess the skills that employers look for.

Is geography a good choice in terms of getting a job?

The answer is a resounding YES!

Care about the planet?Estate ManagerForestry RangerEnvironmental ConsultantPollution AnalystConservation Officer

Discover new

places!

Travel Agent

Tourism Officer

Eco-Tourism

Advisor

Tour Guide

Media Researcher

Enjoy being in the landscape?HydrologistCoastal Manager

GeologistCivil EngineerSoil Conservationist

Interested in Weather?

Weather Presenter

Disaster Manager

Flood Prevention Officer

Risk Assessor

Water Supply Coordinator

Fascinated by

maps?

GIS Specialist

Cartographer

Utilities Manager

Remote Sensing

Analyst

Interested in human behaviour?PlannerSocial WorkerMarket ResearcherHousing OfficerEstate AgentWant to know why

people work where they do?

Economic Developer

Location AnalystRetailerRegional Developer

Transport Manager

Interested in

world events?

Aid Worker

Diplomat

Refugee Advisor

Charity

Coordinator

-PGCE (teaching qualification).

-MSc (e.g. environmental assessment, land management, pollution andenvironmental control, information systems engineering, oceanography, meteorology, rural resource management).

- MA (e.g. cultural geography, society space, international business,town planning).

- PhD (e.g. glaciology, geography of finance, quaternary environmentalchange, geography of health care).

Are you the next

one?

‘Geography is the subject that holds the key to our planet’(Michael Palin)

A girl cycles through floodwaters in Stratford Upon-Avon, central England. (Reuters: Darren Staples)source

Without GEOGRAPHY …Without GEOGRAPHY …

you’re nowhere!you’re nowhere!

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Acknowledgements

• Jo Blackshaw, Oakhampton College

• Liz Smith, Seaford Head Community College