The document outlines the AS and A2 Geography curriculum for 2008, including unit topics, assessments, and sample exam questions. The AS course covers global challenges such as natural hazards and globalization, as well as geographical investigations like crowded coasts and place branding. The A2 course examines contested planet issues like resource use, biodiversity loss, and development gaps. Students take exams involving data responses, essays, and research questions.

1. ‘ AS’&‘A2’ Geography HOMEWOOD @

2. AS

3. GCE 2008 Geography

4. Unit 1 Global Challenges 1: World at risk 2: Going global 60% AS Unit 2: Geographical Investigations 3: Crowded coasts 4: Unequal spaces 40% AS

5. Global Challenge 1.World at Risk Natural Hazards

6. Climate Change

7. Glacier de Triente Switzerland 1983 Climate Change

8. Climate Change Glacier de Triente Switzerland 2001

9. Global Challenge 2. Going Global Globalisation

10. Global Challenge 2. Going Global Population Migration

11. Geographical Investigations Crowded Coasts

12. Crowded Coasts

13. Geographical Investigations Rebranding Places

14. Rebranding Places Geographical Investigations “ Choose smog, choose an inefficient transport system, choose congestion charging and Ken Livingstone, choose paying for the Olympics through your council tax, choose walking halfway across London because Cannon Street tube shuts at weekends, choose cramming on to a train at London Bridge every night, choose expensive drinks and entrance fees, choose renting a house, choose annoying celebrity voices in lifts, choose tramps and beggars on every corner, choose pigeons, crowds and ****** tourists, choose having to force yourself every day not to jump in the Thames, choose wobbly bridges and night buses, choose life, choose London !”

15. Assessment Global Challenge 1 hour 30 mins Data Response & guided essay Environmental Investigations 1 hour. Data response. Fieldwork knowledge and research

16. GCE 2008 Geography Assessment for Unit 1: guided essays GCE 2008 10. Study Figure 10. Suggest why the various groups shown hold differing views about this global trade (10) (b) Explain how people can manage the environmental and social costs of globalisation for a better world. (15)

17. GCE 2008 Geography Assessment for Unit 2 – data response (a) Suggest some of the physical and economic factors that may have made Florida a crowded coast. (10) (b) Using named examples, examine some of the environmental costs of coastal developments such as those shown in Florida. (10) (c) Describe and explain a programme of fieldwork and research you would use to investigate the impacts of either coastal erosion or coastal flooding, along a stretch of coastline. (15) TOTAL 35 marks

18. A2

19. Unit 3 Contested Planet 60% A2 Unit 4: Researching Global Futures 40% A2

20. Unit 3 Contested Planet The use and management of resources is a key issue for Geography and today’s world. Consumption patterns highlight stark inequalities between regions, countries and groups of people. Many resources are finite, and rising consumption means that difficult decisions over the use of resources will have to be taken more frequently. There are six compulsory topics:

21. Topic 1: Energy security Topic 2: Water conflicts Topic 3: Biodiversity under threat Topic 4: Superpower geographies Topic 5: Bridging the development gap Topic 6: The technological fix?

22. Topic 1: Energy security

23. Topic 2: Water conflicts South Africa's demand for freshwater will exceed its supply by 2025 1.1 billion people lack access to clean water 2.6 billion people lack access to basic sanitation

24. Topic 3: Biodiversity under threat

25. Topic 4: Superpower geographies

26. Topic 5: Bridging the development gap

27. Topic 6: The technological fix?

28. 4. Researching Global futures Tectonic Hazards

29. Assessment Unit 3: Contested Planet 2 hour and 30 minutes examination paper comprising two sections and Resource Booklet including synoptic resources. Unit 4:Geographical Research 1 hour and 30 minute examination Students answer one question that relates to the option they have studied.