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Flashcards for AQA A-level Geography (7037), split into Paper 1 Physical geography and Paper 2 Human geography, then by topic in the specification’s order, plus a Geographical skills deck. Water and carbon cycles, global systems and global governance, and changing places are studied by everyone; the other Paper 1 and Paper 2 topics are options, each in its own subdeck. Delete or suspend any option subdeck your course does not study.

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What is inside (103 subdecks)

  • Geographical skills342 cards
    • Cartographic skills39 cards
    • Core skills38 cards
    • Fieldwork methods27 cards
    • Graphical skills44 cards
    • Hypothesis testing and significance20 cards
    • ICT skills20 cards
    • Sampling techniques36 cards
    • Statistics: central tendency and dispersion40 cards
    • Statistics: Spearman’s rank correlation30 cards
    • Statistics: the chi-squared test33 cards
    • Statistics: the Mann-Whitney U test15 cards
  • Paper 1 Physical geography583 cards
    • 3.1.1 Water and carbon cycles120 cards
      • Case studies: rainforest and river catchment10 cards
      • Changes in the water cycle over time7 cards
      • The carbon cycle20 cards
      • The drainage basin system27 cards
      • The flood hydrograph19 cards
      • The water cycle15 cards
      • Water and carbon cycles as systems10 cards
      • Water, carbon, climate and life on Earth12 cards
    • 3.1.2 Hot desert systems and landscapes67 cards
      • Arid landscapes and landforms12 cards
      • Case studies: a hot desert and desertification5 cards
      • Desert landform formation in more depth6 cards
      • Desertification9 cards
      • Deserts as natural systems15 cards
      • Systems and processes in hot deserts20 cards
    • 3.1.3 Coastal systems and landscapes105 cards
      • Case studies: Holderness and the Netherlands7 cards
      • Coastal management15 cards
      • Coasts as natural systems20 cards
      • Landscapes of coastal erosion and deposition25 cards
      • Sea level change and its landforms11 cards
      • Systems and processes on the coast27 cards
    • 3.1.4 Glacial systems and landscapes102 cards
      • Case studies: the Lake District and the Alps5 cards
      • Glacial and periglacial processes18 cards
      • Glacial systems and glacial budgets21 cards
      • Human impacts on cold environments15 cards
      • Landforms of glacial and fluvioglacial deposition12 cards
      • Landforms of glacial erosion8 cards
      • Periglacial landforms7 cards
      • The nature and distribution of cold environments16 cards
    • 3.1.5 Hazards103 cards
      • Case study: a multi-hazardous environment3 cards
      • Fires in nature18 cards
      • Plate tectonics23 cards
      • Seismic hazards12 cards
      • Storm hazards13 cards
      • The concept of hazard21 cards
      • Volcanic hazards13 cards
    • 3.1.6 Ecosystems under stress86 cards
      • Biomes: tropical rainforest and savanna grassland15 cards
      • Case studies of ecological change3 cards
      • Ecosystems and processes19 cards
      • Ecosystems and sustainability18 cards
      • Ecosystems in the British Isles over time7 cards
      • Local ecosystems14 cards
      • Marine ecosystems: coral reefs10 cards
  • Paper 2 Human geography774 cards
    • 3.2.1 Global systems and global governance312 cards
      • Antarctica as a global common68 cards
      • Global governance42 cards
      • Global systems36 cards
      • Globalisation44 cards
      • Globalisation critique21 cards
      • Institutions of global economic governance3 cards
      • International trade and access to markets81 cards
      • The global commons17 cards
    • 3.2.2 Changing places202 cards
      • Investigating places23 cards
      • Meaning and representation45 cards
      • Processes that change places23 cards
      • Relationships and connections50 cards
      • The nature and importance of places61 cards
    • 3.2.3 Contemporary urban environments96 cards
      • Case studies of contrasting urban areas5 cards
      • Other urban environmental issues14 cards
      • Social and economic issues in urban areas17 cards
      • Sustainable urban development10 cards
      • Urban climate12 cards
      • Urban drainage9 cards
      • Urban forms8 cards
      • Urban waste and its disposal9 cards
      • Urbanisation and urban policy12 cards
    • 3.2.4 Population and the environment90 cards
      • Case studies3 cards
      • Environment and population13 cards
      • Environment, health and wellbeing15 cards
      • Global population futures13 cards
      • Population change19 cards
      • Population, environment and development18 cards
      • Principles of population ecology9 cards
    • 3.2.5 Resource security74 cards
      • Case studies3 cards
      • Energy security14 cards
      • Mineral security7 cards
      • Natural resource issues14 cards
      • Resource development10 cards
      • Resource futures11 cards
      • Water security15 cards

Some of its cards

  • What is a landform?
    A single physical feature of the Earth’s surface, such as a sand dune or an inselberg
  • What is a system, in a geographical sense?
    A set of interrelated components working together to form a functioning whole
  • What is meant by "place", as a geographical concept?
    A particular part of the Earth’s surface that has been given meaning by human experience, memory and identity
  • What is an ecosystem?
    A community of living organisms interacting with each other and with their physical environment
  • What is patterned ground?
    A periglacial landform in which stones are sorted into circles, polygons or stripes by repeated freezing and thawing
  • Why do headlands and bays form along a coastline?
    Differential erosion occurs where bands of resistant and less resistant rock meet the coast, with the less resistant rock eroded back into bays and the resistant rock left protruding as headlands
  • What is the ecological footprint of a city?
    The area of land and resources needed to support a city’s population and absorb its waste, often much larger than the city itself
  • What might a case study of a country experiencing population decline need to show?
    The scale and pattern of the decline and the environmental and socio-economic factors contributing to it, along with its implications for the country
  • What is a duricrust?
    A hard, cemented layer that forms near the desert surface as minerals such as iron, calcium or silica are deposited by evaporating groundwater
  • How is carbon held in the lithosphere?
    As fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas, and in carbonate rocks such as limestone

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