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AQA Geography for A Level & AS Physical Geography Revision Guide
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Book Description
The AQA Geography for A Level & AS Human Geography Revision Guide is the most student-friendly resource for the 2016 AQA A Level and AS Level Geography specifications - written specially to target the demands of revising for these content-heavy linear geography courses. Accessible, clear and thorough, this revision guide engages all your students. Each Human Geography section is condensed into interesting, relevant single- or double-page examples. Clearly written
objective open each section, setting out for students what they need to revise, using high-quality photos, maps and diagrams to aid retention of key geographical processes and information. Motivating revision activities and a focus on the exam requirements reinforce the rigorous approach.
Table of Contents
- Contents
- Introduction: a guide to success
- 1 Water and carbon cycles
- 1.1 Systems in physical geography
- 1.2 The global water cycle
- 1.3 Changes in the magnitude of the water cycle stores
- 1.4 The drainage basin system
- 1.5 The water balance
- 1.6 The flood hydrograph
- 1.7 Factors affecting changes in the water cycle
- 1.8 The global carbon cycle: stores
- 1.9 The global carbon cycle: transfers
- 1.10 Changes in the carbon cycle: physical causes
- 1.11 Changes in the carbon cycle: human causes
- 1.12 The carbon budget
- 1.13 Water, carbon and climate change
- 1.14 Mitigating the impacts of climate change
- 1.15 Tropical rainforests: the water cycle
- 1.16 Tropical rainforests: the carbon cycle
- 1.17 Case study: River catchment: the River Exe, Devon
- 1.18 Case study: River catchment field data, the River Exe, Devon
- 2 Hot desert systems and landscapes
- 2.1 An introduction to hot deserts
- 2.2 The characteristics of hot desert environments and their margins
- 2.3 An introduction to the causes of aridity
- 2.4 The hot desert water balance and the aridity index
- 2.5 Energy sources and sediment in hot desert environments
- 2.6 Weathering processes in hot desert environments
- 2.7 The role of wind in hot desert environments
- 2.8 Aeolian landforms in hot desert environments
- 2.9 The role of water in hot desert environments
- 2.10 Water-formed landforms in hot desert environments
- 2.11 The development of characteristic desert landscapes
- 2.12 The changing extent of hot deserts
- 2.13 Desertification – areas at risk and causes
- 2.14 Impacts of desertification on ecosystems, landscapes and populations
- 2.15 Case study: Desertification in the Badia, Jordan
- 2.16 Case study: The Mojave Desert, USA
- 3 Coastal systems and landscapes
- 3.1 Coasts as natural systems
- 3.2 Sources of energy at the coast
- 3.3 Sediment sources, cells and budgets
- 3.4 Weathering, mass movement and runoff
- 3.5 Marine processes – erosion, transportation and deposition
- 3.6 Landforms and landscapes of coastal erosion
- 3.7 Landforms and landscapes of coastal deposition
- 3.8 Sea level change
- 3.9 Coastal management
- 3.10 Case study: Coastal processes on the Holderness coast
- 3.11 Case study: Risk and opportunity in Odisha, India
- 4 Glacial systems and landscapes
- 4.1 Glaciated landscapes and the glacial system
- 4.2 The nature and distribution of cold environments
- 4.3 Glacial systems and the glacial budget
- 4.4 Historic patterns of ice advance and retreat
- 4.5 Warm- and cold-based glaciers
- 4.6 Geomorphological processes
- 4.7 Periglacial features and processes
- 4.8 Landscapes of glacial erosion
- 4.9 Landscapes of glacial deposition
- 4.10 Fluvioglacial processes and landforms
- 4.11 Periglacial landforms
- 4.12 Fragility of cold environments
- 4.13 Impacts of climate change on cold environments
- 4.14 Management of cold environments
- 4.15 Case study: Challenges and opportunities for development – Svalbard, Norway
- 5 Hazards
- 5.1 Hazards in a geographical context
- 5.2 The structure of the Earth
- 5.3 Plate tectonics theory
- 5.4 Plate margins and magma plumes
- 5.5 Distribution and prediction of volcanic activity
- 5.6 Impacts of volcanic activity
- 5.7 Human responses to a volcanic eruption
- 5.8 Mount Etna, Sicily
- 5.9 Earthquakes and tsunamis
- 5.10 Distribution and prediction of earthquakes
- 5.11 Impacts of seismic activity
- 5.12 Human responses to seismic hazards
- 5.13 Case study: To¯ huku – a multi-hazard environment
- 5.14 The nature of storm hazards
- 5.15 Impacts of storm hazards
- 5.16 Fires in nature
- 5.17 Case study: The Alberta wildfire 2016
- 5.18 Storm hazards
- 6 Ecosystems under stress
- 6.1 An introduction to biodiversity
- 6.2 Ecosystems, development and sustainability
- 6.3 The nature of ecosystems – energy flows and trophic levels
- 6.4 Nutrient cycles
- 6.5 Terrestrial ecosystems
- 6.6 Biomes
- 6.7 The tropical rainforest biome
- 6.8 The savanna grassland biome
- 6.9 Ecosystems and vegetation succession in the British Isles
- 6.10 Marine ecosystems
- 6.11 Urban wasteland ecosystems
- 6.12 Case study: Regional ecological change – Exmoor, UK
- 6.13 Case study: Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, UK
- Glossary
- Revision planner
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