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Component 1: Changing Landscapes and Changing Places

6 dot points across 6 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How do coastal processes create distinctive landforms, and how do these change over time?

Erosional and depositional coastal landforms; the influence of geology and sea-level change; and how landscapes evolve over different timescales.
An Eduqas A-Level Geography answer to coastal landforms and landscape change in Component 1, covering erosional landforms (headlands, caves, arches, stacks, wave-cut platforms), depositional landforms (beaches, spits, bars, tombolos), the role of geology, emergent and submergent landforms of sea-level change, and short to long-term change, with UK examples.
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How and why do people manage coastal landscapes, and how sustainable are the choices?

Human activity and coastal management; hard and soft engineering and managed realignment; shoreline management plans; conflicts between stakeholders; and the sustainability of approaches under sea-level rise.
An Eduqas A-Level Geography answer to coastal management in Component 1, covering human pressures on the coast, hard and soft engineering, managed realignment, shoreline management plans, stakeholder conflicts, cost-benefit and sustainability under sea-level rise, with UK examples such as Holderness and the Essex coast.
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How does the coast operate as an open system, and what processes move energy and sediment through it?

The coastal landscape as an open system within a sediment cell; sources of energy and sediment; marine and sub-aerial processes; and the concept of dynamic equilibrium.
An Eduqas A-Level Geography answer to coastal systems and processes in Component 1, covering the coast as an open system within a sediment cell, sources of wave, wind, tide and current energy, marine and sub-aerial processes, the sediment budget and dynamic equilibrium, with UK examples.
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How do glacial and fluvioglacial processes create distinctive landforms, and how do these record past climate?

Erosional and depositional glacial landforms, periglacial landforms and fluvioglacial landforms; and how glaciated landscapes record Quaternary climate change.
An Eduqas A-Level Geography answer to glacial landforms and landscapes in Component 1, covering erosional landforms (corries, aretes, pyramidal peaks, U-shaped valleys), depositional landforms (moraines, drumlins, erratics), periglacial landforms and fluvioglacial landforms (eskers, kames, outwash), and how landscapes record Quaternary climate change, with UK examples.
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How do people use and manage glaciated and periglacial landscapes, and how sustainable is that use?

Human activity in glaciated and periglacial landscapes; opportunities (tourism, water, energy) and conflicts; and the sustainable management of fragile cold environments.
An Eduqas A-Level Geography answer to the management of glaciated and periglacial landscapes in Component 1, covering human opportunities (tourism, hydropower, water supply, farming), pressures and conflicts, the fragility of cold environments, and sustainable management including national parks, with UK and alpine examples.
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How does a glacier operate as a system, and what processes shape glaciated landscapes?

The glacier as an open system; the glacial budget (accumulation and ablation); and the processes of glacial erosion, transport and deposition, including fluvioglacial processes.
An Eduqas A-Level Geography answer to glaciated systems and processes in Component 1, covering the glacier as an open system, the glacial mass balance of accumulation and ablation, warm and cold-based ice, the processes of glacial erosion (plucking, abrasion), transport and deposition, and fluvioglacial processes, with examples.
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