Geography

Exam Board

Edexcel B Geography

https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-gcses/geography-b-2016.html

 

Why do I have to study Geography?

Our World have been changing; there are improvements as well as deteriorations around us. Climate change, earthquakes, population explosion, deforestation, political upheavals. We study all of these changes around us with analytical bent of mind in order to find solutions to make our World a better place.

 

How will I be examined?

Three written Papers : GCSE Edexcel B Geography:

  • Paper 1- Global Geographical Issues  (90 min  and 94 marks - including 4 for spelling, punctuation and grammar)

  • Paper 2 - UK Geographical Issues  (90 min and 94 marks - including 4 for spelling, punctuation and grammar)

  • Paper 3- People and Environment Issues – Making Geographical Decisions (90 min and 64 marks (including 4 for spelling, punctuation and grammar)

 

What will I study?

Paper 1

  • Topic 1: Hazardous Earth – an understanding of the global circulation of the atmosphere and changing climate. Plus two depth studies of an extreme weather hazard (tropical cyclones) and tectonic hazards at contrasting locations.

  • Topic 2: Development dynamics – an understanding of the scale of global inequality. Plus a depth study of how one emerging country is developing and the consequences for people, environment and the country’s relationship with the wider world

  • Topic 3: Challenges of an urbanising world – an overview of the causes and challenges of rapid urbanisation across the world. Plus one depth study of a megacity in a developing or emerging country.

 

Paper 2

  • Topic 4: The UK's evolving physical landscape - an overview of the varied physical landscapes in the UK resulting from geology, geomorphic processes and human activity over time. Plus two depth studies of distinctive landscapes – Coastal change and conflict and River processes and pressures

  • Topic 5: The UK's evolving human landscape - an overview of the changing and varied human landscape of the UK, including the socio-economic and political processes that influence it. Plus a case study of a major UK city - Dynamic UK cities.

  • Topic 6: Geographical investigations - two investigations, including fieldwork and research, carried out in contrasting environments, one from 'Coastal change and conflict' or 'River processes and pressures' and one of either 'Dynamic urban areas' or 'Changing rural areas'.

 

Paper 3

  • Topic 7: People and the biosphere – an overview of the global distribution and characteristics of large-scale ecosystems, why the biosphere is important to human wellbeing and how humans use and modify it in order to obtain resources

  • Topic 8: Forests under threat – a detailed study of tropical rainforests and the taiga, looking at processes and interactions and issues related to their biodiversity and to their sustainable use and management

  • Topic 9: Consuming energy resources – a study of renewable and non-renewable energy, its supply and demand, access and energy security issues, its sustainable use and management

 

 

Recommended text books, additional reading 

  • GCSE Geography Edexcel B by Bob Digby et al

 

Recommended online resources

 

Department contact:

Dr. M.Syed, Head of Humanities (Geography) (muzamil.syed@londonenterpriseacademy.org)