AS & A Level Geography · Area 3 of 4

Global Environments

Paper 3 of the 9696 syllabus - tropical, coastal, hazardous and arid environments, each examined as a system of processes, landforms and people.

4 topics · 31 exam-style questions · 114 marks

Four environments, each with the processes, landforms and the detailed specific example the paper demands. You choose two of the four in the exam.

Tropical environments

The tropics are not one environment but two - the humid rainforest and the seasonally humid savanna - and almost everything else in this topic follows from which of them ...

7 questions · 30 marks

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Coastal environments

Coasts are the product of a short list of processes: waves, the rocks they attack, the weather above the cliff, and the way sediment is moved along the shore. This page f...

8 questions · 30 marks

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Hazardous environments

Hazardous environments are places where a physical process threatens people, and the exam is really about the gap between the two: the same earthquake that kills a few pe...

8 questions · 28 marks

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Arid environments

Hot arid and semi-arid environments are defined by a water deficit, and that single fact explains the weathering, the wind and water processes, the landforms, the vegetat...

8 questions · 26 marks

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