Component 1: Global Geographical Issues (1GB0/01)

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What this unit covers

• Topic 1: Hazardous Earth: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with the atmosphere operates as a global system which transfers heat around the earth, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 1: Hazardous Earth: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with climate has changed in the past through natural causes on timescales ranging from hundreds to millions of years, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 1: Hazardous Earth: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with global climate is now changing as a result of human activity, and there is uncertainty about future climates, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 1: Hazardous Earth: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with tropical cyclones are caused by particular meteorological conditions, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 1: Hazardous Earth: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with tropical cyclones present major natural hazards to people and places, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 1: Hazardous Earth: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with the impacts of tropical cyclones are linked to a country’s ability to prepare and respond to them, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 1: Hazardous Earth: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with earth’s layered structure, and physical properties is key to plate tectonics, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 1: Hazardous Earth: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with there are different plate boundaries, each with characteristic volcanic and earthquake hazards, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 1: Hazardous Earth: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with tectonic hazards affect people, and are managed, differently at contrasting locations, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 2: Development dynamics: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with there are different ways of defining and measuring development, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 2: Development dynamics: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with there is global inequality in development and different theories in how it can be reduced, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 2: Development dynamics: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with approaches to development vary in type and success, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 2: Development dynamics: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with development of the emerging country is influenced by its location and context in the world, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 2: Development dynamics: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with globalisation causes rapid economic change in the emerging country, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 2: Development dynamics: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with rapid economic growth results in significant positive and negative impacts on people and environment in the emerging country, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 2: Development dynamics: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with rapid economic development has changed the international role of the emerging country, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 3: Challenges of an urbanising world: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with the world is becoming increasingly urbanised, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 3: Challenges of an urbanising world: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with urbanisation is a result of socio-economic processes and change, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 3: Challenges of an urbanising world: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with cities change over time and this is reflected in changing land use, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 3: Challenges of an urbanising world: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with the location and context of the chosen megacity influences its growth, function and structure, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 3: Challenges of an urbanising world: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with the megacity in the chosen country is growing rapidly, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 3: Challenges of an urbanising world: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with rapid population growth creates opportunities and challenges for people living in the chosen megacity, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.
• Topic 3: Challenges of an urbanising world: Explain and apply the geographical processes, evidence and place-based reasoning associated with quality of life in the chosen megacity can be improved by different strategies for achieving sustainability, evaluating patterns and decisions where relevant.