Geography study guides

A deep-dive Edexcel GCSE Geography B guide to Topic 1, Hazardous Earth. Covers global atmospheric circulation, natural and human climate change, tropical cyclones, and tectonic hazards, with the case studies and exam patterns Edexcel B repeats in Paper 1.

A deep-dive Edexcel GCSE Geography B guide to Topic 2, Development dynamics. Covers measuring development, the causes of global inequality, Rostow's and Frank's theories, top-down and bottom-up strategies, and the depth case study of one emerging country, with the exam patterns Edexcel B repeats.

A deep-dive Edexcel GCSE Geography B guide to Topic 3, Challenges of an urbanising world. Covers global urbanisation and megacities, how cities change in land use, and the depth case study of quality of life in one megacity, with the exam patterns Edexcel B repeats.

A deep-dive Edexcel GCSE Geography B guide to Topic 4, The UK's evolving physical landscape. Covers why the UK landscape varies, coastal change and conflict, and river processes and pressures, with the landforms, processes and management questions Edexcel B repeats in Paper 2.

A deep-dive Edexcel GCSE Geography B guide to Topic 5, The UK's evolving human landscape. Covers the urban core and rural periphery, migration and the changing economy, a dynamic UK city and a changing rural area, with the exam patterns Edexcel B repeats in Paper 2.

A deep-dive Edexcel GCSE Geography B guide to Topic 6, Geographical investigations. Covers the enquiry process for a physical fieldwork investigation (coast or river) and a human one (urban or rural), with the methods, sampling and evaluation Edexcel B tests in Paper 2.

A deep-dive Edexcel GCSE Geography B guide to Topic 7, People and the biosphere. Covers the distribution of global biomes, the goods and services the biosphere provides, rising resource demand, and the theories of Malthus and Boserup, with the exam patterns Edexcel B repeats in Paper 3.

A deep-dive Edexcel GCSE Geography B guide to Topic 8, Forests under threat. Covers the structure, functioning and adaptations of the tropical rainforest and taiga, the threats to each, and conservation and sustainable management, with the exam patterns Edexcel B repeats in Paper 3.

A deep-dive Edexcel GCSE Geography B guide to Topic 9, Consuming energy resources. Covers classifying energy and its impacts, uneven access, rising demand and the oil market, new and unconventional sources, and energy futures and attitudes, with the exam and decision-making patterns Edexcel B repeats in Paper 3.