AQA AS/A2 Geography Resource Map

Core Physical Section: Rivers, Floods and Management

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: The drainage basin hydrological cycle: the water balance.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: The Drainage Basin

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Factors affecting river discharge: the storm hydrograph.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Drainage Basin Outputs

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: The long profile - changing processes: types of erosion, transportation and deposition, the Hjulstrom curve.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Fluvial Erosion and Transport | The Hjulström Curve

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Valley profiles - long profile and changing cross profile downstream, graded profile.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Long Profiles

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Changing channel characteristics - cross profile, wetted perimeter, hydraulic radius, roughness, efficiency, and links to velocity and discharge.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: The Bradshaw Model

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Landforms of fluvial erosion and deposition - potholes, rapids, waterfalls, meanders, braiding, levees, flood plains and deltas.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Fluvial Landforms

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Process and impact of rejuvenation - knick points, waterfalls, river terraces and incised meanders.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Long Profiles

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Physical and human causes of flooding.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Causes of Flooding

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Impact of flooding - two case studies of recent events should be undertaken from contrasting areas of the world.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Flooding Case Studies

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Flood management strategies - to include hard engineering - dams, straightening, building up of levees, diversion spillways.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Human Responses to Flooding: Management

Core Human Section: Population Change

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Population indicators - vital rates (birth rate, death rate, fertility rate, infant mortality rate, changes over time, life expectancy, migration rate and population density) for countries at different stages of development.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Population Fertility | Population Mortality

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Population change: the demographic transition model (5 stages), its validity and applicability in countries at different stages of development.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Demographic Transition Model

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Population structures at different stages of the demographic transition. The impact of migration in population structure. The implications of different structures for the balance between population and resources.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Population Pyramids | Migration Models | Population and Resources

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Social, economic and political implications of population change. Attempts to manage population change to achieve sustainable development with reference to case studies of countries at different stages of development.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Population Policies

Human Option: Food Supply Issues

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Global patterns of food supply, consumption and trade. The geopolitics of food.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Food Production, Trade and Aid

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Managing food supply - strategies to increase production: the Green Revolution.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Green Revolution

Human Option: Energy Issues

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: The potential for sustainable energy supply and consumption. Renewable energy - wind energy. Appropriate technology for sustainable development.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Local Scale Sustainable Development | The Great Wind Farm Debate

Human Option: Health Issues

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Global patterns of health, morbidity and mortality: health in world affairs.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Population Mortality

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: The study of one infectious disease (e.g. malaria, HIV/Aids) its global distribution and its impact on health, economic development and lifestyle.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: The Geography of Disease

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Food and health: malnutrition, periodic famine.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Hunger and Malnutrition

Physical Option: Plate tectonics and associated hazards

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Two case studies of recent (ideally within the last 30 years) seismic events should be undertaken from contrasting areas of the world. In each case, the following should be examined: the nature of the seismic hazard; the impact of the event; management of the hazard and responses to the event.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Earthquakes

Physical Option: Ecosystems - Change and Challenge

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Structure of ecosystems, energy flows, trophic levels, food chains and food webs.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: The Concept of the Ecosystem | Energy Flows

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: The biome of one tropical region (savanna, grassland or tropical monsoon forest or tropical equatorial rainforest) The main characteristics of the biome. Human activity and its impact on the biome. Development issues in the biome to include aspects of biodiversity and the potential for sustainability.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Case Study Biome: Tropical Rainforest | Impact of Human Activity upon Ecosystems: Tropical Rainforests | Management and Conservation of Ecosystems: Tropical Rainforests | Case Study Biome: Tropical Grasslands | Impact of Human Activity upon Ecosystems: Tropical Grasslands | Management and Conservation of Ecosystems: Tropical Grasslands

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Ecosystem issues on a global scale. The relationships between human activity, biodiversity and sustainability. The management of fragile environments (conservation versus exploitation): two contrasting case studies of recent (within the last 30 years) management schemes in fragile environments should be undertaken.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Management and Conservation: Tundra

Human Option: Development and globalisation

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Development - economic, demographic, social, political and cultural changes associated with development; the development continuum.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: What is Development?

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Globalisation - factors and dimensions: flows of capital, labour, products and services; global marketing; patterns of production, distribution and consumption.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: What is Globalization?

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Countries at very low levels of economic development
Characteristics and issues - quality of life, debt, social problems.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Why is Norway more developed than Niger? [Free Resource]

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Global social and economic groupings
The concept of the North/South divide, and its relationship to the development continuum.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Patterns of Development

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Aspects of globalisation. Transnational corporations (TNCs): characteristics and spatial organisation. Reasons for the growth and the spatial organisation of transnational corporations (TNCs). Case study of one TNC should be undertaken. Social, economic and environmental impacts of TNCs on their host countries, and their countries of origin.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: TNCs | McGeography

AQA AS/A2 Geography Subject Content: Development issues within the world (each to be studied with reference to contrasting areas of the world): Trade versus aid. Economic sustainability versus environmental sustainability. Sustainable tourism: myth or reality.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Unfair Trade: Ready, Steady, Trade | Trade Agreements: 'Trade not Aid' and the WTO | Sustainable Development | Tourism as a Development Strategy | Sustainable Management of Tourism