GCSE Syllabus Content
Unit 1 - The Core
A. The Physical World
1. Water
- River processes and lanforms
- Managing rivers
2. Climate Change
- Causes and effects
- Redusing the impact
3. Living in an active zone
- Hazards at plate margins
- Reducing the risk
B. A Global World
4. Changing Popunlations
- World population distribution
- Future changes in distribution and structure
5. Interdependence
- Trends in gloablisation
- Impacts of globalitsation
6. Development
- Measuring patterns of development
- Achieving the Millennium Developmnt Goals
Unit 2 - The Options
The department will choose three themes - one physical, one human and one other.
A. Physical Options
7. Our changing coast line
- Coastal processes and landforms
- managing coasts
- Future coastlines
8. Weather and climate
- Climate patterns in the UK
- Weather hazards
- Redusing risks
9. Living things
- The living planet
- Management
- Alternative futures
B. Human Options
10. Tourism
- The changing nature of tourism
- The impact of tourism
- Sustainable growth of tourism
11. Retail and urban change
- The changing city centre
- changing patterns of retailing
- Alternative futures
12. Economic change and Wales
- Current patterns of work abd employment
- Future employment
- Future energy in Wales
