Simple revision cards for the case studies in the AQA Geography GCSE syllabus A. The categories have been written directly from the syllabus to help pupils revise the correct aspects of each case study and to help them plan their revision. The best thing to do having completed a case study revision card is then to try an exam question on it.

1. All skeleton Revision Cards
for Geography Case studies

2. Restless Earth
1. Young fold Mountains - Alps
2. Tsunami – Asian Boxing Day one
3. Supervolcano – Yellowstone
4. Volcano – Montserrat
5. Earthquakes – Nepal (LEDC) and ??? (MEDC)

3. CASE STUDY:
The Alps (young
fold mountains)
How people
use the Alps
How people
adapt to
conditions in
the Alps
Adaption to
steep relief
Adaption to poor
communications
Adaption to
poor soils
How young
fold
mountains
are formed
Agriculture
HEP
Tourism Forestry
PSI: Where?
RESTLESS EARTH

4. CASE STUDY:
Tsunami – a
secondary effect
of an earthquake
Causes of a
Tsunami
Effects of a
Tsunami
Responses
to a Tsunami
Short term
Long term
Social
effects
Environmental
effects
Economic
effects
PSI: Where?
When?
RESTLESS EARTH

5. CASE STUDY:
Supervolcano
Characteristics
of a
supervolcano
GLOBAL
Effects of
supervolcano
Social
effects
Environmental
effects
Economic
effects
PSI: Where?
When? (not yet)
RESTLESS EARTH

6. CASE STUDY:
Volcanic
eruption
Causes of
the eruption
Effects of the
eruption
Responses
to the
eruption
Short term
Long term
Social
effects
Environmental
effects
Economic
effects
PSI: Where?
When?
RESTLESS EARTH

7. CASE STUDY:
Earthquakes in
LEDC and MEDC
what & why the
differences?
Cause of the
earthquakes
Effects of the
quakes
Responses
to the
quakes
Short term
Long term
Social
effects
Environmental
effects
Economic
effects
PSI: Where?
When?
Fit 2 case studies in one here as
the question will ask you to
compare them.
RESTLESS EARTH

8. Tourism
1. Tourism in a UK coastal town - Blackpool
2. Mass tourism in a tropical area - Kenya
3. Sustainable tourism – Kenya
4. Extreme tourism - Antarctica

9. CASE STUDY:
Blackpool – A UK
coastal resort
Reasons it
grew
Plans to
ensure
Blackpool’s
future success
Effectiveness
of dealing
with large
numbers of
tourists
PSI: Where?
TOURISM
Human
factors
Natural/Physical
factors
I think you can
combine these two
boxes into one

10. CASE STUDY:
Mass Tourism in
Kenya
Negative
Effects of
Mass
Tourism
Managing
impacts of
tourism (Being
Sustainable)
Positive
Effects of
Mass
Tourism
Social
Economic
Social
effects
Environmental
effects
Economic
effects
PSI: Where?
Define Mass Tourism
Tourism
EnvironmentalSocial
Economic
Environmental

11. CASE STUDY:
Ecotourism - the
Masai Mara Base
Camp
Benefits of
Ecotourism
How does
Ecotourism
contribute to
Sustainable
Development?
Define
Sustainable
Development
PSI: Where?
Tourism
EnvironmentalSocial
Economic

12. CASE STUDY:
Antarctica – An
Extreme
Environment For
Tourism
Attractions
of Antarctica
as a
destination
Managing
impacts of
tourism (Being
Sustainable)
The Impacts
of tourism
on
Antarctica
PSI: Where?
When?
Tourism
Can Antarctica
cope with
increased tourist
numbers?

13. Coastal Zone
1. Rapid coastal Erosion - Holderness
2. Coastal Management - Holderness
3. Sea Level rise - Maldives
4. Unique coastal ecosystem – Studland

14. CASE STUDY:
Holderness –
Rapid Coastal
Erosion AND
management
Why does
the coast
erode so
quickly
here?
Effects of
rapid erosion
How can
people make
the situation
worse?
Effect of
groynes
further down
the coast
Social
effects
Environmental
effects
PSI: Where?
COASTAL ZONE
nb/ 2 cases studies combined
The coasts and
benefits of different
coastal defences
along Holderness

15. CASE STUDY:
Maldives Sea
level Rise
Reasons for
Sea Level
Rise
Social and
economic
Impacts
Environmental
impacts
PSI: Where?
COASTAL ZONE
Political
Impacts

16. CASE STUDY:
Studland –
Unique Coastal
Environment
Environmental
characteristics
How plants
and animals
adapt to
charateristics
PSI: Where?
COASTAL ZONE
Managing the
area: conflicts
and
sustainability

17. Water on the Land
1. River flood in a LEDC - Bangladesh
2. River flood in a MEDC – River Severn
3. UK Reservoir or Dam – Rutland Water

18. CASE STUDY:
Bangladesh
Flood in a poorer
part of the world
Short term
Effects of the
flood
Responses to
long term
effects
Long term
effects of the
flood
PSI: Where?
When?
WATER ON THE LAND
Responses to
short term
effects
1) Compare to flood in richer part of the world
2) Do environmental, social and economic for each box

19. CASE STUDY:
River Severn
Flood in a richer
part of the world
Short term
Effects of the
flood
Responses to
long term
effects
Long term
effects of the
flood
PSI: Where?
WATER ON THE LAND
Responses to
short term
effects
1) Compare to flood in poorer part of the world
2) Do environmental, social and economic for each box

20. CASE STUDY:
Rutland Water –
example of a
dam/reservoir
Economic
effects of
the reservoir
The need for
sustainability
in all this
Social effects
of the
reservoir
PSI: Where?
When?
WATER ON THE LAND
Environmental
effects of the
reservoir

21. Challenging Urban Environments
1. Government policies in UK inner cities – London Docklands
2. City Centre Renewal and traffic issues – Salisbury (not officially needed case study)
3. Sustainable Urban development – Bedzed
4. a) Squatter Settlement – Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro and b) Improving
squatter settlements – Favela Bairro, Rio de Janeiro

22. CASE STUDY:
London
Docklands –
impact of
government
strategies
Economic
effects of
LDDC
The need for
sustainability
in all this
Social effects
of LDDC
PSI: Where?
CHANGING URBAN ENVIRONMENTS
Environmental
effects of
LDDC
Look for positive and negative effects

23. CASE STUDY:
Bedzed –
Sustainable
Urban
Development
What makes a
development
sustainable and to
what extent does
Bedzed match this?
Social
sustainability
PSI: Where?
CHANGING URBAN ENVIRONMENTS
Environmental
sustainability
Housing?
Transport?
It’s a
brownfield
site. So?Disposing of
waste?
Open Spaces?
People
involved in
decision
making?
Transport
system?

24. CASE STUDY:
Rocinha –
Example of a
squatter
settlement
Charactristics
of Rocinha
(housing
transport
crime etc)
Lives of
inhabitants
PSI: Where?
CHANGING URBAN ENVIRONMENTS
How people
try to improve
their own lives
Quality of
life
Standard of
living

25. CASE STUDY:
Favela Bairro –
example of
improving a
squatter
settlement
Economic
improvements
Social
improvements
PSI: Where?
CHANGING URBAN ENVIRONMENTS
Environmental
improvements
Has it been a
success?

26. Development Gap
1. Fair trade Bananas in the Windward Islands
2. Natural Hazard causing inequality/less development – Montserrat
or Bangladesh floods or Nepal Earthquake (choose one and adapt that skeleton card)
3. Case study of a development project – Water Aid in Uganda
4. Contrasting development in the EU – UK and Poland

27. CASE STUDY:
Windward Isles
bananas - Fair
trade at work
Economic
advantages
of Fair Trade
What is the
fair trade
premium?
Social
advantages of
Fair Trade
PSI: Where?
DEVELOPMENT GAP
Environmental
advantages of
Fair Trade

28. CASE STUDY:
Water Aid in
Uganda –
example of
international (and
sustainable) aid
Economic
advantages
of Fair Trade
What is the
fair trade
premium?
Social
advantages of
Fair Trade
PSI: Where?
DEVELOPMENT GAP
Environmental
advantages of
Fair Trade

29. CASE STUDY:
UK and Poland –
contrasting levels
of development
in the EU
Why is the
UK a more
developed
country than
Poland?
PSI: Where?
DEVELOPMENT GAP
3 or 4 ways the
EU is trying to
reduce
inequality
Human Reasons Physical Reasons