1. Date: Saturday, 08 December 2018 Title: GCSE Geography

2. Lessons
3 year course from Year 9 to Year 11
3 lessons per week

3. 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%

4. 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

5. Unit 2 Topics Urban issues and challenges The changing economic world
Resource management
Energy

6. Unit 3
Section A: Issue evaluation
Section B: Fieldwork

7. 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.