Specification points
WJEC AS Geography B110QS
42 points in 2 topics, with WJEC's codes and titles.
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1 Component 1: Changing Landscapes
- 1.1 Coastal Landscapes
- 1.1.1 The operation of the coast as a system
- 1.1.2 Landforms and landscape systems, their distinctive features and distribution
- 1.1.3 Factors affecting coastal processes and landforms
- 1.1.4 Coastal weathering, mass movement, erosion and landforms
- 1.1.5 Coastal transport, deposition and landforms
- 1.1.6 Aeolian, fluvial and biotic processes on coasts
- 1.1.7 Variations in coastal processes, coastal landforms and landscapes over different time scales
- 1.1.8 Coastal processes as a context for human activity
- 1.1.9 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 Periglacial processes and the formation of associated features and landscapes
- 1.2.8 Variations in glacial processes, glacial landforms and landscapes over different time scales
- 1.2.9 Glacial processes as a context for human activity
- 1.3 Tectonic Hazards
- 1.3.1 Tectonic processes
- 1.3.2 Tectonic hazards
- 1.3.3 Volcanoes, processes and hazards
- 1.3.4 Volcanoes and their impacts
- 1.3.5 Earthquakes, processes and hazards
- 1.3.6 Earthquakes and tsunamis and their impacts
- 1.3.7 Human factors affecting risk and vulnerability
- 1.3.8 Responses to volcanic hazards
- 1.3.9 Responses to earthquakes and tsunamis
2 Component 2: Changing Places
- 2.1 Changing Places
- 2.1.1 Changing places: relationships and connections
- 2.1.2 Changing places: meaning and representation
- 2.1.3 Changing economic characteristics of places
- 2.1.4 Economic change and social inequalities in deindustrialised urban places
- 2.1.5 Service and knowledge economies and their impacts
- 2.1.6 The rebranding process and players in rural places
- 2.1.7 Rural management and the challenges of continuity and change
- 2.1.8 The rebranding process and players in urban places
- 2.1.9 Urban management and the challenges of continuity and change