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Published: 27 October 2020
Authors:
- Graham Reardon
- Michael Marshall
- Rhian Kift
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GCSE Geography knowledge organisers

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A bank of sample knowledge organisers to support the learning of GCSE Geography.

These could be used for revision or as a starting point for creating your own knowledge organisers.
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Key Idea 1.1: Distinctive landscapes in Wales
1.1.2 How are physical landscapes affected by human activity?
1.1.3 How can landscapes be managed?
1.1.1 What makes landscapes distinctive in Wales?
Key Idea 1.2: Landform process and change in two different and distinctive landscapes of Wales or the wider UK
1.2.1a How do processes work together to create landform features at different scales in river landscapes
1.2.1b How do processes work together to create landform features at different scales in coastal landscapes
1.2.2 What factors affect the rates of landform change in river and coastal landscapes
Key Idea 1.3: Drainage basins of Wales and the UK
1.3.2 Why do rivers in the UK flood? (Part A)
1.3.2 Why do rivers in the UK flood? (Part B)
1.3.1 What physical processes affect stores and flows in UK drainage basins?
1.3.3 What are the current and future management approaches to the problem of flooding in the UK?
Key Idea 2.1: The urban-rural continuum in Wales
2.1.1 How are urban and rural areas in Wales linked? (Part A)
2.1.1 How are urban and rural areas in Wales linked? (Part B)
2.1.2 How are rural areas in Wales changing?
Key Idea 2.2: Population and urban change in the UK
2.2.1 What are the causes and consequences of population change in the UK?
2.2.2 What are some of the contemporary challenges facing UK towns and cities?
2.2.3 How and why is retailing changing in the UK?
Key Idea 3.1: Tectonic processes and landforms
3.1.1a Tectonic theory and processes
3.1.1b Volcanic landscapes – Large and small-scale tectonic features
Key Idea 3.2: Vulnerability and hazard reduction
3.2.1a What are the impacts of tectonic processes – Earthquakes
3.2.1b What are the impacts of tectonic processes? – Volcanoes
3.2.2 How might the risks associated with tectonic hazards be reduced?
Key Idea 2.3: Urban issues in contrasting global cities
2.3.1 What are the global patterns of urbanisation?
2.3.2 What are the consequences of urbanisation in two global cities?
2.3.3 How are global cities connected?
Key Idea 4.1: Vulnerable coastlines
4.1.1 Why are some coastal communities vulnerable to erosion and flooding?
Key Idea 4.2: Managing coastal hazards
4.2.1 How are coastlines managed?
4.2.2 What is the most sustainable way to manage coastlines in the face of rising sea levels?
Key Idea 5.1: Climate change during the Quaternary period
5.1.1 and 5.1.2 What are the causes of, and evidence for, climate change?
Key Idea 5.2: Weather patterns and process
5.2.1a Distribution, changing patterns, causes and consequences of low pressure weather hazards
5.2.1b Distribution, changing patterns, causes and consequences of high pressure weather hazards
5.2.2 What factors create variations in weather and climate at different scales within the UK?
Key Idea 5.3: Processes and interactions within ecosystems
5.3.2 What are the key processes of ecosystems at different scales?
Key Idea 5.4: Human activity and ecosystem processes
5.4.1 How do people use ecosystems and environments?
5.4.2 How do human activities modify processes and interaction within ecosystems?
5.4.3 How can ecosystems be managed sustainably?
Key Idea 6.1: Measuring global inequalities
6.1.1. How is economic development measured and what are the contemporary global patterns?
Key Idea 6.2: Causes and consequences of uneven development
6.2.1 What are the causes and consequences of uneven development at the global scale? – Part 1
6.2.2. What are the responses to uneven development at the global scale?
Key Idea 6.3: Water resources and their management
6.3.1 How and why is the demand for water changing?
Key Idea 6.4: Regional economic development
6.4.1 What are the causes and consequences of regional patterns of economic development in one economically developing country?
6.4.2 What are the causes and consequences of regional patterns of economic  development in the UK?
6.4.3 How can regional inequalities in the UK be reduced?
Key Idea 7.1: Measuring social development
7.1.1 How is social development measured?
Key Idea 7.2: Contemporary issues
7.2.1 What challenges face social development in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia? (Child labour and girls education)
7.2.1 What challenges face social development in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia? (Population)
7.2.1 What challenges face social development in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia? (Refugees)
7.2.2 What are the health and care issues in sub-Saharan Africa?
Key Idea 8.1: Consumerism and its impact on the environment
8.1.1 What are the impacts of increasing consumer choice on the global environment?
8.1.2 How may climate change affect people and the environment and how can technology be used, and people’s lifestyles changed to reduce these impacts?

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