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A-Level Geography studies the interaction of physical and human worlds at scales from the local to the global, set against the Department for Education GCE AS and A level subject content and delivered here through the AQA 7037 specification. It runs from the physical systems that shape water, carbon, coasts, glaciers, deserts, hazards and ecosystems, through the human geographies of global systems and governance, changing places, cities, population and resources, to a compulsory skills and independent-fieldwork strand. It is a diagram- and data-rich subject, assessed as much on the application of concepts to unfamiliar places, the interpretation of maps, graphs and statistics, and reasoned evaluation as on the recall of processes.
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Table of contents · 12 ChaptersT·12
- Systems in physical geographyText L·01 · Recommended start4 min
- The global and drainage-basin water cycleText L·024 min
- The storm hydrograph and runoff variationText L·033 min
- The carbon cycle: stores and fluxesText L·044 min
- Feedback, the carbon budget and the climateText L·053 min
- Case studies: the Amazon and a river catchmentText L·064 min
- The coast as a system and the sediment budgetText L·074 min
- Waves, tides and marine and sub-aerial processesText L·084 min
- Erosional processes and landformsText L·093 min
- Transport, deposition and depositional landformsText L·104 min
- Sea-level change and emergent and submergent coastsText L·114 min
- Coastal management and a case studyText L·124 min
- Water and Carbon Cycles
- Coastal Systems and Landscapes
- Glacial Systems and Landscapes
- Hot Desert Systems and Landscapes
- Hazards
- Ecosystems Under Stress
- Global Systems and Global Governance
- Changing Places
- Contemporary Urban Environments
- Population and the Environment
- Resource Security
- Geographical Skills and the Independent Fieldwork Investigation
- Paper 1 - Physical geography (AQA 7037/1)
- 2 hours 30 minutes, 120 marks, 40% of the A-Level. Assesses Section A Water and carbon cycles (compulsory), Section B one landscape option (Hot desert systems and landscapes, Coastal systems and landscapes or Glacial systems and landscapes) and Section C one of Hazards or Ecosystems under stress. Question styles range from short point-marked answers, through resource- and data-response items using maps, graphs and photographs, to extended 9- and 20-mark evaluative essays. A calculator and, where set, an Ordnance Survey map extract are allowed.
- Paper 2 - Human geography (AQA 7037/2)
- 2 hours 30 minutes, 120 marks, 40% of the A-Level. Assesses Section A Global systems and global governance (compulsory), Section B Changing places (compulsory) and Section C one of Contemporary urban environments, Population and the environment or Resource security. The same mix of short-answer, resource-based and extended-essay questions applies, with a strong emphasis on applying concepts to case studies and to unfamiliar sources.
- Component 3 - Geography fieldwork investigation / NEA (non-exam assessment)
- An independent investigation of 3000-4000 words, 60 marks, 20% of the A-Level. It is based on the student's own fieldwork, must define a question or hypothesis, justify data-collection methods and sampling, present and analyse the data using appropriate cartographic, graphical and statistical techniques, and reach an evidenced conclusion with a critical evaluation. It is marked by the centre and moderated by AQA.
- Assessment objectives, quantitative skills and grading
- The three papers and the NEA are weighted broadly evenly across the three assessment objectives, with AO3 substantial. AO1 (knowledge and understanding of places, environments, processes and concepts) is roughly a third of the marks; AO2 (application to interpret, analyse and evaluate) roughly a third; and AO3 (use of quantitative, qualitative and fieldwork skills to investigate, analyse and conclude) roughly the remaining quarter to third. At least 10% of the overall marks assess quantitative (mathematical and statistical) skills. The full A-Level is linear and graded A*-E (U below E).