All seven topics of the 0680 syllabus - rocks, land, water, atmosphere, ecosystems, hazards and population - explained, diagrammed and self-marked. Free, no login, works on any device.
Both pages list the same topics, in the same order. Here is the difference in one line each.
Use the syllabus page to check you are revising the right things. Use this page to learn them.
Cambridge IGCSE Environmental Management 0680 is seven topics, studied in this order: 1 Natural resources, 2 Land, 3 Water, 4 The atmosphere and human activities, 5 Ecosystems, biodiversity and fieldwork, 6 Natural hazards and 7 Human population. Inside them are thirty numbered sub-topics, and every one of the thirty has its own revision page on this site, in Cambridge's own order.
Natural resources is six sub-topics: Formation of Rocks, Extraction of Rocks, Ores and Minerals, Sustainable Management of Rocks, Ores and Minerals, Energy Resources, Conservation and Management of Energy Resources and Fracking. Land is three: Soils and Crop Growth, Food production and crop yield and Soil erosion. Water is six: Water Sources and Supply, Water Pollution, Water-related Diseases, Marine Aquaculture, Oil Pollution and Plastic Pollution.
The atmosphere and human activities is four: The Atmosphere, Climate Change, Acid Rain and Ozone Depletion. Ecosystems, biodiversity and fieldwork is four: Ecosystems, Forest Ecosystems, Managing Biodiversity and Fieldwork Investigations - the fieldwork topic is in the syllabus because Paper 2 examines it. Natural hazards is four: Earthquakes and Volcanoes, Tropical Cyclones, Flooding and Drought. Human population is three: Human Population Density, Distribution and Structure, Human Population Size and Managing Human Population Size.
0680 has no Core and Extended split and no tiering of any kind: every candidate studies the same seven topics and sits the same two papers, and both papers are set on source material about a real environmental context - a mine, a river basin, a coastline, a city. So the skill being tested is applying the management idea to somewhere you have not seen before, which is what the questions on this site's pages practise.
| Route | Papers you sit | Grades open to you | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| IGCSE Environmental Management - the only route | Paper 1 and Paper 2 | grades A* to G | Both papers are taken at the end of the course and both are externally assessed, at 50% of the qualification each. Cambridge does not split 0680 into a Core and an Extended route, so there is no choice of paper to make and no route that caps the grade you can be awarded. |
Paper 1 is 50% of the qualification and Paper 2 is 50%.
| Paper | Time | Marks | What it tests |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper 1 - Principles of Environmental Management | 1 h 45 min | 80 marks | Short-answer and structured questions with extended response questions based on source material. AO1, AO2 and AO3. |
| Paper 2 - Environmental Management in Context | 1 h 45 min | 80 marks | Short-answer, data processing and analysis, and extended response questions based on source material and fieldwork investigations. AO1, AO2 and AO3. |
Inside the two papers the balance is different, and it is worth knowing which one you are sitting: Paper 1 is 55% AO1, 30% AO2 and 15% AO3, while Paper 2 swings the other way at 30% AO1, 30% AO2 and 40% AO3 - so Paper 2 is where the source material, the data handling and the fieldwork questions carry the marks. Every question on this site's Environmental Management pages is tagged AO1, AO2 or AO3, so you can see which one you are practising.
The full topic list, with every topic linked to its revision page, is on the IGCSE Environmental Management syllabus page. Work through the areas below in order, or jump straight to what you need tonight.
Work through them in order or jump straight to what you need tonight. Each topic page teaches the content, then tests it.
How rocks, ores and energy are formed, extracted and managed - and what that does to the land, the air and the people who live there.
Soils, what makes them fertile, how food production changes them, and how erosion turns farmland into wasteland.
Water sources and supply, pollution, water-borne disease, marine aquaculture, and the two pollutants that reach every ocean: oil and plastic.
The structure and composition of the atmosphere, climate change, acid rain and ozone depletion - three different problems with three different causes.
Energy flow and nutrient cycles, forest ecosystems, why biodiversity matters and how it is managed - plus the fieldwork techniques the paper examines.
Earthquakes and volcanoes, tropical cyclones, flooding and drought: the physical causes, the impacts, and how the risk is managed.
Population density, distribution and structure, why populations grow, and the strategies that change the rate of growth.
Knowing the content and scoring marks are two different skills. These tools train the second one.
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OpenEvery question on the site in one place. Filter by topic, command word, marks or AO1/AO2, then build a set and mark yourself against the scheme.
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