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GCE 2008 Geography

Unit 1 Global Challenges 1: World at risk 2: Going global 60% AS

Unit 2: Geographical Investigations 3: Crowded coasts 4: Unequal spaces 40% AS

Unit 1 Global Challenges 1: World at risk 2: Going global 60% AS

Unit 2: Geographical Investigations 3: Crowded coasts 4: Unequal spaces 40% AS

Glacier de Triente Switzerland 1983

Glacier de Triente Switzerland 2001

“Choose smog, choose an inefficient transport system, choose congestion charging and Ken Livingstone, choose paying for the Olympics through your council tax, choose walking halfway across London because Cannon Street tube shuts at weekends, choose cramming on to a train at London Bridge every night, choose expensive drinks

and entrance fees, choose renting a house, choose annoying celebrity voices in lifts, choose tramps and beggars on every corner, choose pigeons, crowds and

****** tourists, choose having to force yourself every day not to jump in the Thames, choose wobbly bridges and

night buses, choose life, choose London !”

AssessmentAssessmentAssessmentAssessment Global Challenge 1 hour 30 minsGlobal Challenge 1 hour 30 minsData Response & guided essay Data Response & guided essay

Environmental InvestigationsEnvironmental Investigations 1 hour. 1 hour. Data response. Fieldwork Data response. Fieldwork

knowledge and researchknowledge and research

Global Challenge 1 hour 30 minsGlobal Challenge 1 hour 30 minsData Response & guided essay Data Response & guided essay

Environmental InvestigationsEnvironmental Investigations 1 hour. 1 hour. Data response. Fieldwork Data response. Fieldwork

knowledge and researchknowledge and research

GCE 2008 Geography Assessment for Unit 1: guided

essays

GCE 2008

10. Study Figure 10.

(a)Suggest why the various groups shown hold differing views about this global trade

(10)

(b) Explain how people can manage the environmental and social costs of globalisation for a better world.

(15)

GCE 2008 Geography

Assessment for Unit 2 – data response (a) Suggest some of the

physical and economic factors that may have made Florida a crowded coast.

(10)

(b) Using named examples, examine some of the environmental costs of coastal developments such as those shown in Florida.

(10)(c) Describe and explain a programme of fieldwork and research you would use to investigate the impacts of either coastal erosion or coastal flooding, along a stretch of coastline.

(15)

TOTAL 35 marks

A2A2

Unit 3

Contested Planet

60% A2

Unit 4:

Researching Global Futures

40% A2

Unit 3

Contested Planet

60% A2

Unit 4:

Researching Global Futures

40% A2

Unit 3 Contested PlanetUnit 3 Contested PlanetThe use and management of resources is a key issue for Geography and today’s world. Consumption patterns highlight stark inequalities between regions, countries and groups of people. Many resources arefinite, and rising consumption means that difficult decisions over the use of resources will have to be taken more frequently.

There are six compulsory topics:

Topic 1: Energy security

Topic 2: Water conflicts

Topic 3: Biodiversity under threat

Topic 4: Superpower geographies

Topic 5: Bridging the development gap

Topic 6: The technological fix?

Topic 1: Energy securityTopic 1: Energy security

Topic 2: Water conflictsTopic 2: Water conflicts

South Africa's demand for freshwater will exceed its supply by 2025

1.1 billion people lack access to clean water2.6 billion people lack access to basic sanitation

Topic 3: Biodiversity under threat

Topic 4: Superpower geographies

Topic 5: Bridging the development gap

Topic 6: The technological fix?

4. Researching 4. Researching GlobalGlobal futures futures4. Researching 4. Researching GlobalGlobal futures futures

Tectonic HazardsTectonic Hazards

AssessmentAssessment

Unit 3: Contested Planet 2 hour and 30 minutes examination paper comprising two sections and Resource Booklet including synoptic resources.

Unit 4:Geographical Research 1 hour and 30 minute examinationStudents answer one question that relates to the option they have studied.

Unit 3: Contested Planet 2 hour and 30 minutes examination paper comprising two sections and Resource Booklet including synoptic resources.

Unit 4:Geographical Research 1 hour and 30 minute examinationStudents answer one question that relates to the option they have studied.