AQA GCSE 9-1 GEOGRAPHY PAPER 1 2019 - Physical Geography

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In this video I am going to detail what is involved in Paper 1 for the AQA GCSE Geography 9-1 course.

You will be sitting this exam on 21st May 2019 in the afternoon session. It will be a 1hr30 worth 88 marks.

The structure of the exam consists of 3 sections: A, B & C.

You need to answer ALL the questions in sections A & B, but then you have a choice when it comes to section C. This depends on which topics you have studied with your teacher, so you will choose 2 out of the 3 topics: either Coasts, Rivers or Glaciers.

The first thing i always suggest to my students is to read the instructions on the cover sheet carefully before skimming through the entire paper.

You will start with Section A, The Challenge of Natural Hazards. The section will contain a variety of different questions from multiple choice all the way up to a 9 marker with SPAG marks available.

So these are the topics you need to be revising for section A.

–Distribution of Volcanoes
–Plate Margins - destructive, constructive & conservative plate margins
–Earthquake examples - primary & secondary effects and immediate & long term responses
–Why live near hazards?
–Risk Management - 3 Ps - prediction, protection & planning
–Global Atmospheric Circulation - Hadley cell, ferrell cell, polar cell
–Tropical Storms - effects & responses, typhoon haiyan
–Extreme UK Weather - Cumbria floods 2009, or Somerset floods 2014,
–Climate Change - evidence, natural/human causes (Mitigation/adaptation!)

Case Studies
Earthquake examples - Italy 2009, Nepal 2015, or Chile 2010
Typhoon haiyan 2013

Section B looks at the Living World.

In this section you could encounter multiple choice questions up to a 9 marker but this time without SPAG marks.

The topics for revision are:

Ecosystems
Tropical Rainforests
Cold environments or hot deserts
–Parts of an Ecosystem & Distribution/characteristics of ecosystems around the world
–Food chains/webs
–Tropical Rainforests - climate, deforestation - causes/impacts, management and protection
– Cold Environments (Polar/Tundra) or hot deserts
–Alaska (Tundra)
–Antarctica (Polar)

If you have studied hot deserts then you need to refer to your own note or discuss any queries with your teacher.

Each part of section C is slightly shorter than sections A & B.
Coasts, rivers or glaciers and again you only choose 2 out of the 3 sections.
My group this year have just studied coasts and rivers so they will only complete those sections.

In last years exam each section contained 7 questions. Most of the questions were 1 markers, with a 4 & 6 mark question to finish.

•Coasts - you need to show understanding of the following features and how they are formed as well as being able to apply your knowledge to OS maps extracts.
–Waves
–Weathering/mass movement (landslides)
–Erosional processes
–Transportation (longshore drift)
–Deposition
–Geology/rock structure at coastline
–Headlands and bays
–Cliffs and wave cut platforms
–Caves, arches and stacks
–Beaches (sandy/pebble)
–Sand dunes
–Spits and bars
–Coastal management (soft/hard engineering)
–Coastal realignment
Possible case studies - Swanage & the Dorset coast

Rivers - you need to show understanding of the following features and how they are formed as well as being able to apply your knowledge to OS maps extracts.
–Fluvial processes
–Erosion
–Transportation
–Deposition
–Long profile/cross profile
–Interlocking spurs
–Waterfalls and gorges
–Meanders and oxbow lakes
–Levees and floodplains
–Causes of flooding (physical/human)
–Precipitation to discharge (Hydrographs)
–River management (hard/soft engineering)
–Management example
Possible examples could include looking at the River Tees, or the River Severn & its estuary, managing floods in Banbury or the Jubilee river flood-relief channel

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[xandertaylor]

Teachers with YouTube channels are honestly the best thing ever

[caldoesstuff]

My teacher hasn’t taught us half of this....so glad I looked up videos about this now I know what I need to revise days before the exam...wish me luck

[Oliver-ubgc]

Why the hell has my school not taught a single lesson on earthquakes

[dudley]

I'm watching this an hour before my exam! Wish me luck guys

[xhibah]

i panicked and learnt EVERYTHING, even the sections i didn’t need to know about, my mock is tomorrow.

[oliverjackson-bolton]

Feeling more ready for tomorrow after this thank you 👍

[footballskillz]

Would you recommend basically completely ignoring this video if you are siting the edexcel exam?

[bethrowland]

So helpful thankyou !! Watching you paper 2 before my next mock on Monday the 25th of March and hopefully you will have a paper 3 one out before the 28th

[jasonkurera]

Thank you so much for this, I am in Year 10 so this really helps for my mocks tomorrow (Last minute revision to see what I missed out)

[kezia]

thank you so much!! i’m panicking for paper one as i learnt it in year 10 and i’m worried i’m not revising all that i can, this helped so much!!

[jamiekeeble]

We’re currently on tropical storms and it’s looking unlikely we’re going to finish the course in time UPDATE: Finally finished the course today!

[emmathwaites]

Who else is watching this the night b4 the exam ? Lol pls prey for me

[gabriellalaporta]

i’m going gcse 2020 is these still the same topics ??

[hakunamitatas]

Didn't even know what was on the paper till now... Tomorrow shal be fun

[chrishaynes]

Good luck everyone don't feel prepared

[esosaomoruyi]

Sort of out of context here but where did you get your sunglasses from?

[nrup]

I have a Year 10 mock tomorrow, I know its different from this but I have mostly same topics

[daniellawillis]

I literally have a paper 1 mock today. In 1:30 hours 😭😂

[kristofszecsi]

I've done the exam, it was easy as hell :O

[pmxtdsz]

Hi sir, I need help please. I had a 4 in my mock and I really enjoy Geography so I have been working hard. Do you know how I can improve my grade to a 7 like essay structure? Cause I struggle with answering questions ad getting the most marks out of it. I really want do Geography for A-level so I need a 6 or above.