IGCSE Geography · Area 1 of 3

Physical Geography

Paper 1 of the 0460 syllabus - changing river environments, changing coastal environments, changing ecosystems, tectonic hazards and climate change.

5 topics · 40 exam-style questions · 134 marks

One page per syllabus theme. Each teaches the processes and landforms, diagrams them, then tests them with self-marked exam questions.

Changing river environments

Rivers move water, sediment and energy through the landscape, and the same processes that build floodplains and deltas also put people at risk. This topic takes you from ...

8 questions · 28 marks

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Changing coastal environments

The coast is the boundary where the sea, the land and the weather meet, and it changes constantly. This topic covers the wave types and processes that shape a coastline, ...

8 questions · 28 marks

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Changing ecosystems

An ecosystem is a community of living things interacting with the non-living parts of their environment, and this topic studies two of them in detail: the Antarctic and t...

8 questions · 28 marks

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Tectonic hazards

The Earth's crust is broken into plates that move on convection currents in the mantle, so earthquakes and volcanoes are concentrated along plate boundaries. This page co...

8 questions · 25 marks

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Climate change

The Earth's climate has always changed, but the warming of the last century is different: it is far faster, and the extra greenhouse gases behind it come from human activ...

8 questions · 25 marks

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This page is one area of Cambridge IGCSE Geography 0460. IGCSE Geography is the course home: every area and every topic in Cambridge's own order, the papers you sit and what each one tests, and the exam-practice tools. The full topic list, with each topic linked to its revision page, is on the IGCSE Geography syllabus page.