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WJEC A-level Geography A110QS
104 points in 4 topics, with WJEC's codes and titles.
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1 Component 1: Changing Landscapes and Changing Places
- 1.1 Coastal Landscapes
- 1.1.1 The operation of the coast as a system
- 1.1.2 Temporal variations and their influence on coastal environments
- 1.1.3 Landforms and landscape systems, their distinctive features and distribution
- 1.1.4 Factors affecting coastal processes and landforms
- 1.1.5 Coastal weathering, mass movement, erosion and landforms
- 1.1.6 Coastal transport, deposition and landforms
- 1.1.7 Aeolian, fluvial and biotic processes on coasts
- 1.1.8 Variations in coastal processes, coastal landforms and landscapes over different time scales
- 1.1.9 Coastal processes as a context for human activity
- 1.1.10 The impact of human activity on coastal landscape systems
- 1.2 Glaciated Landscapes
- 1.2.1 The operation of a glacier as a system
- 1.2.2 Climate change and the glacier budget over different time scales
- 1.2.3 Glacier movement
- 1.2.4 The range of glacial environments and their distribution
- 1.2.5 Glacial weathering, erosion and landforms
- 1.2.6 Glacial and fluvioglacial transport, deposition and landforms
- 1.2.7 Suites of landforms within glacial landscapes
- 1.2.8 Periglacial processes and the formation of associated features
- 1.2.9 Variations in glacial processes, glacial landforms and landscapes over different time scales
- 1.2.10 Glacial processes as a context for human activity
- 1.3 Changing Places
- 1.3.1 Changing places: relationships and connections
- 1.3.2 Changing places: meaning and representation
- 1.3.3 Changing economic characteristics of places
- 1.3.4 Economic change and social inequalities in deindustrialised urban places
- 1.3.5 The service economy (tertiary) and its social and economic impacts
- 1.3.6 The 21st century knowledge economy (quaternary) and its social and economic impacts
- 1.3.7 The rebranding process and players in rural places
- 1.3.8 Rural management and the challenges of continuity and change
- 1.3.9 The rebranding process and players in urban places
- 1.3.10 Urban management and the challenges of continuity and change
2 Component 2: Global Systems and Global Governance
- 2.1 Water and Carbon Cycles
- 2.1.1 The concepts of system and mass balance
- 2.1.2 Catchment hydrology – the drainage basin as a system
- 2.1.3 Temporal variations in river discharge
- 2.1.4 Precipitation and excess runoff within the water cycle
- 2.1.5 Deficit within the water cycle
- 2.1.6 The global carbon cycle
- 2.1.7 Carbon stores in different biomes
- 2.1.8 Changing carbon stores in peatlands over time
- 2.1.9 Links between the water and carbon cycles
- 2.1.10 Feedback within and between the carbon and water cycles
- 2.2 Global Governance: Change and Challenges
- 2.2.1 Globalisation, migration and a shrinking world
- 2.2.2 Causes of international economic migration
- 2.2.3 Consequences and management of international economic migration
- 2.2.4 Refugee movements: causes, consequences and management
- 2.2.5 Rural-urban migration in developing countries
- 2.2.6 Global governance of the Earth’s oceans
- 2.2.7 Global flows of shipping and sea cables
- 2.2.8 Sovereignty of ocean resources
- 2.2.9 Managing marine environments
- 2.2.10 Managing ocean pollution
3 Component 3: Contemporary Themes in Geography
- 3.1 Tectonic Hazards
- 3.1.1 Tectonic processes and hazards
- 3.1.2 Volcanoes, processes, hazards and their impacts
- 3.1.3 Earthquakes, processes, hazards and their impacts
- 3.1.4 Human factors affecting risk and vulnerability
- 3.1.5 Responses to tectonic hazards
- 3.2 Ecosystems
- 3.2.1 The value and distribution of ecosystems
- 3.2.2 The structure and functioning of ecosystems
- 3.2.3 Biodiversity under threat
- 3.2.4 Conserving biodiversity
- 3.2.5 Ecosystems at a local scale
- 3.2.6 The Arctic tundra biome
- 3.2.7 Sustainable use of the Arctic tundra biome
- 3.3 Economic growth and challenge: India, China or Africa
- 3.3.1 The importance of the physical background of India or China
- 3.3.2 Demographic, social and cultural characteristics of India or China
- 3.3.3 Opportunities and constraints of India or China’s physical environment
- 3.3.4 The economic and political background of India or China
- 3.3.5 The global importance of India or China
- 3.3.6 Threats to India’s or China’s environment associated with economic growth
- 3.3.7 Sustainable development in India or China
- 3.3.8 Definitions, measures and patterns of development
- 3.3.9 Physical factors and development
- 3.3.10 Economic factors and development
- 3.3.11 Political, social and cultural factors and development
- 3.3.12 The impact of development on the environment of two or more countries
- 3.3.13 Challenges of desertification in two or more countries
- 3.3.14 Strategies to promote development in two or more countries
- 3.4 Energy Challenges and Dilemmas
- 3.4.1 The classification and distribution of energy resources
- 3.4.2 Physical factors determining the supply of energy
- 3.4.3 The changing demand for energy
- 3.4.4 The global management of oil and gas
- 3.4.5 Problems associated with extraction, transport and use of energy
- 3.4.6 Energy mixes and development
- 3.4.7 The need for sustainable solutions to meet the demand for energy
- 3.5 Weather and Climate
- 3.5.1 Global controls on climate
- 3.5.2 World’s major climate types
- 3.5.3 Climate and weather of the UK
- 3.5.4 Extreme weather events
- 3.5.5 Impacts and management of climatic hazards
- 3.5.6 Human impacts on urban atmospheres
- 3.5.7 People, climate and the future