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We are constantly exposed to geographical issues in everyday life, including: environmental concerns; natural disasters; world weather; local developments; urban and rural change; population movements; maps and travel. Students are provided with an opportunity to develop an awareness and understanding of the patterns, processes and relationships that characterise human and physical environments.

During this course you will not only develop subject knowledge but also a broad range of transferable skills, that you will use to investigate the impacts that humans have had on the planet, from a local to a global scale, and will assess the extent to which management of these systems can lead to a sustainable global future.

Component 1: Physical Geography:

• Section A: Water and Carbon Cycles
• Section B: Hot desert systems and landscapes or Coastal systems and landscapes
• Section C: Hazards or Ecosystems under stress

Component 2: Human Geography:

• Section A: Global Systems and Global Governance
• Section B: Changing Places
• Section C: Contemporary Urban Environments or Population and the environment or Resource security

Component 3:

Students complete an individual investigation which must include data collected in the field. The individual investigation must be based on a question or issue defined and developed by the student relating to any part of the specification content.
• 60 marks
• 3,000-4,000-word report
• Marked by teachers
• Moderated by AQA