Date: Saturday, 08 December 2018 Title: GCSE Geography
Lessons 3 year course from Year 9 to Year 11 3 lessons per week
Assessment Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Title Living with the physical environment Challenges in the human environment Geographical applications Assessment Type Exam 1 hour 30 minutes Weight 35% 30%
Unit 1 Topics Natural hazards Earthquake hazards Weather hazards Climate change Ecosystems Tropical rainforests Hot deserts Coastal landscapes in the UK River landscapes in the UK
Unit 2 Topics Urban issues and challenges The changing economic world Resource management Energy
Unit 3 Section A: Issue evaluation Section B: Fieldwork
Why Geography? Geography develops a range of skills that’ll be very useful for you in other subjects and in the rest of your life. A lot of the topics will be similar to the topics that you’ve studied in Years 7 and 8 just in more detail.