AS & A Level Geography · Area 1 of 4

Physical Geography

Paper 1 of the 9696 syllabus - hydrology, river processes and hazards, atmospheric processes and global climate change, and earth processes and mass movements.

3 topics · 22 exam-style questions · 80 marks

Three topics, one per syllabus theme. Each teaches the processes, diagrams them, and gives you the essay structure the Paper 1 Section B question expects.

Hydrology, river processes and hazards

The drainage basin is an open system, and almost every mark in this topic comes from explaining what the stores and transfers do to the water on its way to the channel. Y...

8 questions · 34 marks

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Atmospheric processes and global climate change

The atmosphere is a heat engine: it receives shortwave radiation from the Sun, loses longwave radiation to space, and moves the surplus energy of the tropics towards the ...

7 questions · 23 marks

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Earth processes and mass movements

This topic asks you to explain why plates move, what happens at each of the four boundary types, and how the landforms you can see follow from those processes, then to ap...

7 questions · 23 marks

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