Living with the physical environment

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What this unit covers

• Section A: The challenge of natural hazards: Distinguish primary and secondary effects of tropical storms.
• Section A: The challenge of natural hazards: Explain the relationship between tropical storms and general atmospheric circulation.
• Section A: The challenge of natural hazards: Explain natural causes of climate change, including orbital changes, volcanic activity and solar output.
• Section A: The challenge of natural hazards: Explain human causes of climate change, including fossil fuel use, agriculture and deforestation.
• Section A: The challenge of natural hazards: Define a natural hazard.
• Section A: The challenge of natural hazards: Explain factors affecting hazard risk.
• Section A: The challenge of natural hazards: Distinguish primary and secondary effects of a tectonic hazard.
• Section A: The challenge of natural hazards: Explain physical processes at constructive, destructive and conservative plate margins that lead to earthquakes and volcanic activity.
• Section B: The living world: Interpret food chains, food webs and nutrient cycling within an ecosystem.
• Section B: The living world: Explain interactions between biotic and abiotic components in ecosystems.
• Section B: The living world: Use a tropical rainforest case study to explain impacts of deforestation including economic development, soil erosion and contribution to climate change.
• Section B: The living world: Explain the interdependence of climate, water, soils, plants, animals and people in a tropical rainforest.
• Section B: The living world: Explain issues related to biodiversity in cold environments.
• Section B: The living world: Explain why fragile cold environments should be protected.
• Section B: The living world: Use a hot desert case study to explain development challenges including extreme temperatures, water supply and inaccessibility.
• Section B: The living world: Use a hot desert case study to explain development opportunities including mineral extraction, energy, farming and tourism.
• Section C: Physical landscapes in the UK: Describe the location of major lowland areas in the UK.
• Section C: Physical landscapes in the UK: Describe the location of major upland areas in the UK.
• Section C: Physical landscapes in the UK: Use a UK coastal management scheme example to explain reasons for management, strategies used, resulting effects and conflicts.
• Section C: Physical landscapes in the UK: Explain the characteristics and formation of deposition landforms including beaches, sand dunes, spits and bars.
• Section C: Physical landscapes in the UK: Explain fluvial transportation processes including traction, saltation, suspension and solution.
• Section C: Physical landscapes in the UK: Explain why rivers deposit sediment.
• Section C: Physical landscapes in the UK: Explain the characteristics and formation of transportation and deposition landforms including erratics, drumlins and types of moraine.
• Section C: Physical landscapes in the UK: Describe economic activities in glaciated upland areas including tourism, farming, forestry and quarrying.