GCSE Geography
Physical geography
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Hazards, climate, coasts and rivers: the processes that shape landscapes and threaten lives.
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Open guide Revision guideMeanders and oxbow lakesStudents type: how does an oxbow lake form gcse
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Open guide Revision guideCoastal managementStudents type: hard vs soft engineering coasts gcse
Open guide Revision guideCave, arch, stack and stumpStudents type: cave arch stack stump sequence gcse
Open guide Revision guideThe Holderness coastStudents type: holderness coast erosion gcse
Open guide Revision guideThe hazard management cycleStudents type: hazard management cycle gcse geography
Open guide Revision guideSomerset floods 2014Students type: somerset levels floods 2014 gcse
Open guide Revision guideTyphoon Haiyan 2013Students type: typhoon haiyan 2013 gcse case study
Open guide Revision guideJapan earthquake and tsunami 2011Students type: japan tohoku earthquake 2011 gcse
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Open guide Revision guidePlate margins and hotspotsStudents type: constructive destructive conservative plate margins gcse
Open guideNatural hazards
Tectonic and weather hazards: why they happen, why death tolls differ, and how places prepare, respond and recover.
Climate change
The evidence that climate is changing, natural and human causes, and the difference between mitigation and adaptation.
Coasts
Waves, erosion, transport and deposition, the landforms they build, and why coastal management always creates winners and losers.
Rivers
Erosion, transport and deposition from source to mouth, the landforms they create, and how we manage flood risk.
Plate margins and hotspots
GCSE Geography plate margins: constructive, destructive and conservative boundaries plus hotspots, with diagrams you can describe in words and the San Andreas no-volcano rule.
Haiti earthquake 2010
GCSE Geography Haiti 2010 case study: an LIC magnitude 7.0 quake near Port-au-Prince, weak buildings, a huge death toll, delayed aid, cholera, and the contrast with Chile the same year.
Japan earthquake and tsunami 2011
GCSE Geography Tohoku 2011: an HIC magnitude 9.0 megathrust, a tsunami, the Fukushima nuclear crisis, prediction and protection, and why economic cost dwarfed the death toll compared with Haiti.
Typhoon Haiyan 2013
GCSE Geography Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda): Philippines 2013, Tacloban’s storm surge, warnings versus capacity, primary and secondary effects, and immediate plus long-term responses in an LIC/NEE.
Somerset floods 2014
GCSE Geography Somerset Levels 2014: a UK HIC weather hazard from prolonged rain on a floodplain, the dredging debate, economic disruption, and a contrast with Typhoon Haiyan’s death toll.
The hazard management cycle
GCSE Geography hazard management cycle: monitoring, prediction, protection and planning, with LIC versus HIC capacity, using Haiti, Japan, Haiyan and Somerset as the named tests of each stage.
The Holderness coast
GCSE Geography Holderness coast: rapid erosion of glacial till, Mappleton’s groynes, down-drift starvation, lost villages, and Spurn Head as the longshore-drift spit at the Humber.
Cave, arch, stack and stump
GCSE Geography cave–arch–stack–stump sequence at Old Harry Rocks: joints, hydraulic action and abrasion, then weathering and collapse, with every process named in order.
Coastal management
GCSE Geography coastal management: hard and soft engineering versus managed retreat, Shoreline Management Plans, Medmerry realignment, and why every scheme creates winners and losers.
High Force waterfall
GCSE Geography High Force on the River Tees: Whin Sill dolerite as cap rock over weaker bands, plunge-pool undercutting, retreat, and the gorge left behind in the North Pennines.
Meanders and oxbow lakes
GCSE Geography oxbow lakes: meander mechanics with the thalweg on the outer bend, river cliffs and slip-off slopes, neck cut-off in flood, and the sealed crescent on the floodplain.
Boscastle flood 2004
GCSE Geography Boscastle 2004: intense August rainfall on a steep Cornish catchment, debris-blocked channels and bridges, a flash flood through the village, and later channel and debris-screen work.
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