AQA Geography A Level: A Level: AQA Geography A Level & AS Physical Geography Student Book
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English
ISBN
9780198497981
Contents
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 food hydrograph
1.7 Factors afecting 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 feld data: the River Exe, Devon
1 Practice questions
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 Desertifcation – areas at risk and causes
2.14 Impacts of desertifcation on ecosystems, landscapes and populations
2.15 Case study: Desertifcation in the Badia, Jordan
2.16 Case study: The Mojave Desert, USA
2 Practice questions
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 runof
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
3 Practice questions
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 Case study: Management of cold environments
4.15 Case study: Challenges and opportunities for development – Svalbard, Norway
4 Practice questions
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: T¯ohoku – 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
5 Practice questions
6 Ecosystems under stress
6.1 An introduction to biodiversity
6.2 Ecosystems, development and sustainability
6.3 The nature of ecosystems – energy fows 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
6 Practice questions
7 Geography fieldwork investigation
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