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AQA A-level Geography: Antarctica - a global common
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A workbooklet designed to summarise the information on Antarctica as a global common whilst linking to some exam-style questions that students may be faced (e.g., 6 mark ‘analyse’ questions). Booklet will take a few hours to complete as well as HWK / independent learning.
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Student Handout: Structure of Past AQA A-Level Exam Papers
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This student handout provides a handy summary of the structure of AQA's two exam papers at A-Level. It reflects the structure of questions posed from 2020 to 2023, topic by topic with mark allocation by assessment objective (AO).
Download the Structure of Past AQA A-Level Exam Papers here:
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Geography A-Level Activities
Are you a Geography A-Level student or a teacher looking for interesting projects to push and challenge your students? Here are some ideas (more to follow soon).
Take a look at the BRITICE project and download the maps: BRITICE . You could also download maps of the glaciation of Britain from the Journal of Maps . In particular, take a look at papers by Sahlin and Glasser and Hughes et al .
Investigate the maps. What glaciological features are marked on the maps? How are they formed? What do they tell us about the last British Ice Sheet? What landforms are near your house, or where you have been on holiday? Are there any nearby that you can go and take a look at?
More advanced: Can you classify the landforms into erosional and depositional? What processes have made these landforms? Where were the ice divides and where were the ice streams?
Sedimentology
The coastal cliff sections in eastern England, particularly north Norfolk, Yorkshire and Co. Durham have excellent exposures of glacial sediments dating from the Mid- to Late Pleistocene.
The Quaternary Research Association has an excellent selection of field guides to these areas. Visit a site and try photographing, measuring and sketching the glacial sediments.
What processes may have been active at the ice-bed interface when these sediments were formed? Get your hands dirty and feel the till. What is is made up of? What kinds of rocks are in the till? Is it structureless, or can you see structures in it?
Google Earth
Take a look at Google Earth. Use Goole Earth to explore glacierised environments, such as the Antarctic Peninsula or Iceland.
What satellite are you using and what is the resolution?
What implications does this have for being able to identify objects on the ground?
Look at Vatnajokull in Iceland. What structures can you see on the ice surface? How are they formed? What glacial and fluvioglacial features can you see in front of the ice terminus? Can you identify any of the following?
- Stratification in glacier ice (showing the annual layers of snow)
- Surface debris
- Medial moraines
- Crevasse-squeeze ridges
Use the search feature in Google Earth to find McMurdo and Rothera bases in Antarctica. What do they look like? How do they differ from normal towns? What features can you identify (e.g., heli-pad, runway, fuel stores, accommodation, vehicles)?
Can you find any ice streams in Antarctica? How do you know they are ice streams? (Hint: look at the ice surface).
Is the Antarctic continent entirely flat and white, or are there mountains? What do you notice about ice around the mountains?
Search for Beardmore Glacier. Where is this glacier?
Search for Larsen Ice Shelf. What is an ice shelf? What does it look like? Can you tell where the ice shelf begins and ends?
What does the South Pole look like?
Understanding glaciers
These interactive glacier models are great for understanding how glaciers work, and they’re ideal for undergraduates and A-Level Geography students or undergraduate students.
Navigate to the PHeT Glacier Simulation . Download the Java file to your desktop and run it on your computer. The file will open up and you’ll see the two tabs, Introduction and Advanced. Move the Bear slider along to move up and down the valley.
Introductory Questions
Can you answer these questions?
- When you don’t change anything, what can you observe on the glacier? Is it advancing or retreating, or is it in steady state?
- What happens to rocks beneath the glacier? What landforms are created as you watch the glacier?
- What glacier structures can you see on the ice surface, and what happens to them? What does this tell you about the glacier’s flow?
Equilibrium Line Altitude
Using the radio buttons on the green left-hand box, select ‘Metric’ and ‘Equilibrium Line’.
- What is the Equilibrium Line showing you? What happens to the snow at the Equilibrium Line?
- Click on the Ice Drill and drill some holes in the glacier ice. What happens to your drill holes? Why does this happen?
- Click on the Measuring tool and measure ice thickness. Where it the ice thickest? Why is this?
- Click on the Thermometer Tool. How does the temperature change along the length of the glacier? What about at the tops and bottoms of the mountains? Why is this?
- Use the GPS tool to measure the length of your glacier.
- Place a Flag on your ice surface near the top of the glacier. What happens to it? Can you explain why? What implications does this have for rocks that fall on the ice surface?
Advance and recession
Now use the Sea-Level Temperature and Average Snowfall sliding bars to make the glacier grow and shrink. If your glacier disappears or runs away, you can reset it to the Glacier Steady State. Use the Bear Slider to move along your glacier.
- What is the largest size of glacier you can grow?
- What do you need to do to make the glacier shrink?
- What does tell you about the relationship betwen temperature, precipitation, and glacier length?
- What happens to the Equilibrium Line as your make it colder or wamer? Why does it move? What does this mean for our understanding of Equilibrium Lines?
- Use the Measure Tool to track changes in ice thickness through time as you grow and shrink your glacier. How does the ice thickness change? Why does the ice thickness change?
Click on the Advanced Tab. Experiment with the options in the boxes. What do they do?
- Turn on Ice Flow Vectors. The length of the vector is proportional to glacier velocity. What do you notice about the length of the vectors along the length of the glacier, and from the ice surface to the bed?
- Turn on some graphs and see how your glacier properties change through time as you change temperature and precipitation.
- Make the glacier recede. What happens to the debris that is contained (entrained) within the glacier? What happens to the stream infront of the glacier? What landform is left behind after the glacier recedes?
- Turn time up to FAST. Create a pattern of 4 moraines using the temperature and precipitation sliders. Draw a plan view map of what they might look like (i.e., as if you looked down on them from above).
What is the response time?
Reset the glacier.
- Increase snow and precipitation to its maximum. How long will it take for the glacier to reach steady state again?
- Decrease the sliders to their minimum. How long will it take the glacier to disappear completely?
Glacial landforms
Click on Show Real Glacier.
- List 5 erosional and 5 depositional landforms you can see in the photograph.
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Antarctic Geography Antarctica is the most southern continent in the world, containing the South Pole and stretching an area of 14 million km 2 . The majority of Antarctica is covered in ice , making it the largest ice sheet in the world - it holds 90% of all of the Earth's surface freshwater .
The Antarctic Convergence. Natural boundary in the Southern Ocean: a dividing line that loops all the way around the continent. Sea temperatures here fall as much as 4℃ in summer. Watery division separates cold north-flowing waters from the warmer waters of the subantarctic and creates a significant mixing and upwelling of water.
Rhiannon has many years of experience working as an examiner for GCSE, IGCSE and A level Geography, so she knows how to help students achieve exam success. Revision notes on 7.6.3 Global Governance of Antarctica for the AQA A Level Geography syllabus, written by the Geography experts at Save My Exams.
Describe Antarctica. Covers about 14 Million km", so it's larger than Europe. It contains 90% of all the ice on Earth, around 70% of all Earths fresh water. Though it's all frozen, there's actually very little available water for plants to grow, and the small amount of precipitation it gets (-166 per year) is low enough to classify it as a desert.
The Antarctic Treaty was written in 1959 and is an agreement signed by 53 countries. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like How much Ice is there in Antarctica?, How has Climate Change affected Antarctica's Ice Shelves?, How Have Penguins been affected by Climate Change? and more.
Figures 1, 2 and 3 show climatic statistics for three places in Antarctica. 1 = Vostok (78 degrees S - near to the 'Pole of Inaccessibility' - the point on Antarctica that is furthest from the sea in any direction). Height 3448 metres. 2 = Amundsen-Scott (90 degrees S - the base at the South Pole). Height 2880 metres.
A complete case study resource booklet introducing the course, its key themes and the importance of Antarctica as a global common. Includes exam practice, wider reading, cornell notes templates and activities to accompany content. Can be used as a classroom resource and as guided independant study. Contents: Key geographical concepts Why Antarctica
https://goo.gl/2aDKGz to access super concise & engaging A-level videos by A* students for the AQA, OCR and Edexcel Specs.
Quizzes & Activities. Antarctica. Global common. Climate change. Tourism management. Antarctic Treaty System. This A-Level Geography revision quiz looks at Antarctica as a Global Common. 10 questions are drawn from a large question bank, so you can play it multiple times to test yourself on this element of the Global Systems & Governance topic.
This case study can be used as a mini example in 6 or 8 mark questions but is also ideal as an example in essay questions (16 marks) The essay in the GS&G section of the human paper (A-Level Geog 2019) was based around Antarctica, so it will be used in mocks for next year, and possibly in 2020 exams. 3.2.1.5.1 Antarctica as a global common
https://goo.gl/2aDKGz to access super concise & engaging A-level videos by A* students for the AQA, OCR and Edexcel Specs.
Antarctic circle- milder climate as a result. In the Peninsula, moss... and Lichens dominate; particularly moss. Fauna is limited to insects and mites which feed on... veg while surrounding seas support rich variety of birds and seals, feed at sea and breeds. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Environmental factors ...
Antarctica Case Study. Location Most of Antarctica lies South of the Antarctic circle, except from parts of the East Antarctic Coastline and the Antarctic Peninsula (extends Northwards from West Antarctica 63 degrees South. It covers an area of 14 million square kilometres. The Antarctic circle is located at 66. degrees South of the
Concise summary of Antarctica as a case study for the cold environments AQA A Level Geography component. Includes human impacts, impacts of climate change, conservation and Antarctica as a fragile environment. Wrote in an easy to understand way and includes facts which are useful for exams.
You could use James Ross Island as a case study. Additional items. Your AQA A-Level Geography Syllabus also states that you should understand exploitation and development in tundra and in the Southern Ocean, and the future of Antarctica, considering issues of conservation, protection, development and sustainability. Coastal Environments
AQA A-level Geography: Antarctica - a global common. A workbooklet designed to summarise the information on Antarctica as a global common whilst linking to some exam-style questions that students may be faced (e.g., 6 mark 'analyse' questions). Booklet will take a few hours to complete as well as HWK / independent learning.
Biodiversity. The average temperature of Antarctica is -49°C. The cold and dry climate in Antarctica and the limited availability of sunlight means that biological productivity is very low, with vegetation mostly limited to mosses and lichens. The coldest temperature recorded was -94°C.
Throughout the website, pages that are particularly relevant to A-Level or post-16 education are identified by a yellow flash. Pages that are suitable case studies are also highlighted. Yellow 'Introductory' flashes indicate content that is suitable for 14-16 year olds, at UK Key Stage 3 or GCSE level. Each page includes useful links for ...
Match. Created by. tlegs1211. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like global common, 2000, 60 ' 360 and more.
CASE STUDY: Antarctica - AQA Geography, A-Level. Describe 3 Characteristics of Antarctica's Climate. Click the card to flip 👆. 1. Receives less than 166mm of precipitation a year - 'desert'. 2. Average temperature = -49°C. 3. Coldest and driest continent on Earth.
This section of the website is written specifically for post-16 age Geography (A-Level in the UK) students, who may be studying Glaciers and Glaciation as part of their course. Students studying topics such as Climate Change may also find relevant sections on this part of the website. Geography Teachers may also find some of the information on ...
Last updated 25 Apr 2024. Share : This student handout provides a handy summary of the structure of AQA's two exam papers at A-Level. It reflects the structure of questions posed from 2020 to 2023, topic by topic with mark allocation by assessment objective (AO). Download the Structure of Past AQA A-Level Exam Papers here:
Understanding glaciers. These interactive glacier models are great for understanding how glaciers work, and they're ideal for undergraduates and A-Level Geography students or undergraduate students. Navigate to the PHeT Glacier Simulation. Download the Java file to your desktop and run it on your computer. The file will open up and you'll ...
This causes more warming, contributing to a positive feedback loop. Warming causes glaciers and ice sheets to melt - bringing significant changes to the environment and contributing to global sea level rise. Antarctica is losing ice mass at an average rate of 150 million tonnes per year. Graph showing the rate of ice melt in Antarctica.