GCSE Geography for WJEC A Option Topics brings geography to life for students and covers all the optional human and physical units for this new specification. Each of these contemporary themes allows understanding to be developed to a greater depth:

Our Changing Coastline
Weather and Climate
Living Things
Tourism
Retail and Urban Change
Economic Change and Wales

The content is explored through:

data research questions for each chapter to develop students' decision-making skills
'Geography Futures' feature to encourage students to use their understanding of geographical processes and patterns to predict what might happen in the future
examination-style questions and exam tips written by the Senior Principal Examiner for the WJEC A Specification
activities to enable students to develop their geographical skills of enquiry, to analyse and interpret evidence
case studies of real places to illustrate concepts such as tropical storms and drought
GIS activities that explain how digital technology is used to store and retrieve geographical information.

GCSE Geography for WJEC A Option Topics accompanies GCSE Geography for WJEC A Core to provide students with a motivating and dynamic course for twenty-first century geography.


Achieve your best in WJEC A GCSE Geography with expert guidance for exam success.

Endorsed by WJEC and written by an experienced teacher, this revision guide has been designed to thoroughly prepare you for the WJEC A GCSE Geography examination.

- Helps you to revise the key geographical facts, terms and knowledge you need to know for the exam with 'The Essentials'
- Tests your understanding with 'Go Active' activities
- Improves your exam skills with exam-style practice questions and advice on exam preparation and approaches with 'Exam Spotlight'
- Improve your grade with the 'Inside Information' exam advice, model answers and examiner commentary
- Helps you to prepare for questions on case studies through extension and further exploration of the case studies in the Student's Book

Contents

Theme 1 - Water
Theme 2 - Climate Change
Theme 3 - Living in an Active Zone
Theme 4 - Changing Populations
Theme 5 - Globalisation
Theme 6 - Development
Theme 7 - Our Changing Coastline
Theme 8 - Weather and Climate
Theme 9 - Living Things
Theme 10 - Tourism
Theme 11 - Retail and Urban Change
Theme 12 - Economic Change and Wales


GCSE Geography for WJEC Specification B is an exciting and motivating course designed to help students develop the abilities required to achieve exam success for the latest WJEC Specification B. WJEC Specification B is a direct development of the popular Avery Hill course and retains its issue-based, investigative approach to geography based around three themes: 1. Challenges of living in a built environment; 2. People and the natural world interactions; 3. People, work and development. Each theme includes: - activities using real-place data, maps, photographs and ICT resources to develop students' geographical investigative and analytical skills - examination tips to help students avoid common pitfalls, written by a WJEC examiner - integrated case studies of relevant LEDC and MEDC locations such as Ghana, Mali, Iceland and the UK - a problem-solving exercise at the end of each theme to help students to develop the skills required for the cross-unit Paper 2 study - 'Going Further' features to extend students' learning and to to help them to research geography in greater depth

Help your students develop the abilities required to achieve exam success for the core human and physical geography topics of WJEC GCSE Geography Specification A.

Endorsed by WJEC, GCSE Option Geography for WJEC A covers all the optional human and physical topics in the specification. Each of these contemporary themes allows understanding to be developed to a greater depth.

- Develops students' decision-making skills through data research questions for each chapter
- Encourages students to use their understanding of geographical processes and patterns to predict what might happen in the future through 'Geography futures'
- Helps students prepare for their exam with examination-style questions and exam tips
- Enables students to develop their geographical skills of enquiry, analysis and interpretation of evidence through a range of activities
- Provides case studies of real places to illustrate concepts such as tropical storms and drought
- Supports the use of ICT and GIS in the classroom with GIS activities


GCSE Core Geography for WJEC A covers the three core human and three core physical units of this new specification, which offers students a stimulating and motivating course for the twenty-first century. The core content comprises a range of traditional and contemporary themes, inspiring and motivating students to want to learn more. It develops the thinking and enquiring minds needed in our rapidly changing world and prepares students for a more sustainable future.

Key questions are examined throughout, such as:
- What are the causes and evidence for climate change?
- What are the alternate futures?
- Where will people live in the future?
- How are global patterns of development identified?

Each enquiry is explored through the following features:
- 'Geographical futures' to encourage students to apply their understanding of current trends and to identify alternate future scenarios and evaluate their sustainability
- examination-style questions and exam tips written by a WJEC examiner, with advice on the cross-unit task
- a range of activities to enable students to develop their geographical skills of enquiry, analysis and interpretation of evidence, decision-making and communication
- exploration of real places at different scales and at different levels of development
- activities that support the use of ICT and GIS in the classroom.


Help your students develop the abilities required to achieve exam success for the core human and physical geography topics of WJEC GCSE Geography Specification A.

Endorsed by WJEC, GCSE Core Geography for WJEC A covers the three core human and three core physical units in the specification. The core content comprises a range of traditional and contemporary themes, inspiring and motivating students to want to learn more.

- Encourages students to identify alternative future scenarios and evaluate their sustainability through 'Geography futures'
- Helps students prepare for their exam with examination-style questions and exam tips, and advice on the cross-unit task
- Enables students to develop their geographical skills of enquiry, analysis and interpretation of evidence through a range of activities
- Provides case studies of real places at different scales and at different levels of development
- Supports the use of ICT and GIS in the classroom with GIS activities