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A-Level Geography (AQA 7037), against the DfE/Ofqual subject content.
Overview
A-Level Geography (AQA 7037), against the DfE/Ofqual subject content.
Complete topic map
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Compulsory physical core examining the stores and fluxes of water and carbon at or near the Earth's surface and their links to climate and life.
Compulsory physical option (alternative to coasts or glaciers within the dryland set) studying arid landforms shaped by limited moisture, wind and water processes, plus desertification.
Physical landscape option exploring coasts as dynamic systems where winds, waves, currents and sediment interact to create distinctive landforms and management challenges.
Physical landscape option investigating past and present glaciated environments, glacial and periglacial processes, resulting landforms and human pressures on them.
Optional physical topic analysing natural hazards such as tectonic, storm and wildfire events, their impacts on people and approaches to risk and response.
Optional physical topic focusing on biosphere and ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, and the strains placed on ecosystems by human activity and management.
Compulsory human core on globalisation flows of capital, labour, goods, services and information, and the international institutions and frameworks that govern them.
Compulsory human core requiring study of two contrasting places, examining how endogenous and exogenous factors shape their character, meaning and lived experience.
Optional human topic on urbanisation, urban forms and processes, environmental issues and the pursuit of sustainable, liveable cities.
Optional human topic exploring relationships between population, climate, soils, food and health, and the environmental dimensions of population change.
Optional human topic examining the supply, demand and management of water, energy and mineral resources and the geopolitical and sustainability tensions they raise.
Mandatory non-exam assessment and skills strand requiring a student-led independent investigation incorporating fieldwork, alongside qualitative, quantitative, cartographic and statistical skills.
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AS-Level
Advanced Subsidiary — the first year of A-Level study (standalone or first half of the full A-Level).
A-Level (A2)
The full Advanced Level — AS content plus the second-year A2 content.
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