1. Year 13 Geography

2. A-level specification and assessment
Component 1:
Physical Geography
Written Paper
40%
2 hours 30 minutes
Section A: Water and carbon cycles
Section B: Coastal systems and landscapes (not cold environments)
Section C: Hazards (not ecosystems under stress or Cold environments)
Component 2:
Human Geography
Section A: Global systems and global governance
Section B: Changing places
Section C: Population and environment (not Contemporary urban environments or Resource security)
Component 3:
Geographical investigation
20%
3,000 – 4,000 words
marked by teachers
moderated by AQA 15

3. A-level: Physical content – Yr 12
Coastal systems and landscapes
Coasts as natural systems Sources of energy, geomorphological processes
Landforms and landscapes of erosion and deposition
Coastlines of emergence and submergence
Coastal management: hard and soft engineering,
sustainable approaches
Hazards
Nature, forms and potential impacts of natural hazards.
Vulcanicity and its causes, impacts and responses
Seismic hazards: causes, impacts, responses
Storm hazards: causes, impacts, responses 19

4. A-level: Physical Content – Yr 13
Water and carbon cycles.
Systems concepts and their application to the water and carbon cycle.
The major stores of water and carbon at or near the earth’s surface and
the relationships between them.
Global distribution and size of major stores of water – lithosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and atmosphere
Drainage basins as open systems
Runoff variation and the flood hydrograph.
Changes in the water cycle over time
Global distribution, and size of major stores of carbon.
Factors driving change in the magnitude of these stores
Changes in the carbon cycle over time
Water, carbon and climate change
Comment on content, options, skills and approaches that are relevant to this question paper. 18

5. A-level: Human Content – Yr 12
Changing Places
The concept of place and the importance of place in human life and experience. Categories of place.
Knowing and understanding places: acquiring, developing and communicating a sense of place including diverse media (eg film, photography, art, story) management of the perception of place (community groups, corporate entities, local and national governments)
The dynamics of changing places, factors, agents of change.
Place study exploring the character of a place local to the home or study centre. and
Place study exploring the character of a contrasting and distant place
Must include people’s lived experience of the place in the past and at present,
and
changing demographic and cultural
characteristics of the place, or
economic change over time and its effects
on the place.

6. A-level: Human Content – Yr 13
Global systems and global governance
International trade and access to markets.
Forms/patterns: Trends in the volume and pattern of international trade. The nature and role of TNCs. World trade in at least one food commodity or one manufacturing product.
Impacts: Economic, political, social and environmental interdependence. The effect of globalisation on the international labour market.
Global Governance
The concept of the ‘global commons’.
Threats to Antarctica arising from: climate change, fishing and whaling, the search for mineral resources, tourism and scientific research.
Protection of Antarctica. Concepts of resilience, mitigation and adaptation. International governmental organisations. NGOs
Responses: Attempts to tackle problems associated with globalisation. Fair trade, ethical investment, international development organisations and NGOs.
Comment on content, options, skills and approaches that are relevant to this question paper.

7. A-level: Human Content – Yr 13
Population and the environment
Population change: natural change and migration
Population structures
Environmental constraints
Environment, health and well-being
Global population futures

8. A-level specification and assessment
Component 1:
Physical Geography
Written Paper
40%
2 hours 30 minutes
Section A: Water and carbon cycles
Section B: Coastal systems and landscapes (not cold environments)
Section C: Hazards (not ecosystems under stress or Cold environments)
Component 2:
Human Geography
Section A: Global systems and global governance
Section B: Changing places
Section C: Population and environment (not Contemporary urban environments or Resource security)
Component 3:
Geographical investigation
20%
3,000 – 4,000 words
marked by teachers
moderated by AQA

9. Geographical investigation

10. Investigation requirements - AQA
The independent*investigation must: • be based on a question or issue defined and developed by the student individually to address aims, questions and / or hypotheses relating to any of the core or non-core content • incorporate field data and/or evidence from field investigations • draw on the student's own research and/or secondary data • require the student to independently contextualise, analyse and draw conclusions • involve presentation and analysis of data and findings, and extended writing. *Independent does not mean lone working. Students may incorporate field data and/or evidence from field investigations collected individually or in groups.

11. A-level: fieldwork investigation criteria:
Identification of issue/research question(s) and reference to theoretical and locational contexts
Data collection methodology, including practicality of approaches and relevance of data
Presentation techniques, including selection and use of suitable quantitative and qualitative approaches
Analysis, interpretation and interrogation techniques
Conclusion, including critically evaluating and applying results to existing theory
Evaluation of, and reflection on, investigation, including ethical dimensions of field research
Quality of written argument
Criterion 2
Criterion 3
Criterion 4
Criterion 5
Criterion 6

12. A-level: mark scheme TOTAL 60 marks.
Introduction and preliminary research (10 marks)
Defining the research question and placing the study in theoretical context
Methods of field investigation (15 marks)
Recording field data, understanding and implementing fieldwork methods
Methods of critical analysis (20 marks)
Analysing field data and applying results to geographical theory
Conclusions, evaluation and presentation (15 marks)
Writing a summary of findings, evaluating and reflecting on results
TOTAL 60 marks.

13. Hand in Deadline Friday 8th September 2017
You have: 15 hours in the 5 week plan plus all homework time (20 hours) = minimum total of 35 hours + summer hols
= an excellent piece of coursework and 20% of your A-level in the bag!
Hand in Deadline Friday 8th September 2017

14. Tasks – Week One Read fieldwork booklet .
Fill out fieldwork proposal form and to
Collect your fieldwork results from Chesil beach and start to digitally input data. You must do this in a format that you will all be able to access and share data to increase size of data set.
Complete further reading and use to inform you of processes and theory (you don’t need to include loads of this in your investigation.)