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1. Weather in the UK
How latitude, relief, aspect, and distance from the sea shape local weather, and the five main air masses affecting the UK.
2. Glaciated Upland Landscapes
How glacial erosion carved features like corries and u-shaped valleys, and the land uses and conflicts found in these landscapes.
3. Coastal Landscapes
How wave erosion and deposition shape features like cliffs, headlands, stacks, and spits, and how coastal land uses are managed.
4. Upland Limestone Landscapes
How limestone's chemical weathering creates pavements, potholes, and caverns, and the land uses these landscapes support.
5. Rivers and Their Valleys
How rivers erode v-shaped valleys and waterfalls upstream, deposit meanders and ox-bow lakes downstream, and the land uses along them.
6. Development Indicators & Population Distribution
Social and economic indicators used to compare countries, and the factors affecting global population distribution and birth/death rates.
7. Urban Land Use Zones
The characteristic land-use zones of a developed-world city, and recent developments in the CBD, inner city, and rural-urban fringe.
8. Issues in Developing World Cities
Why shanty towns form around rapidly growing developing-world cities, and the strategies used to improve them.
9. Rural Change in Developed Countries
How diversification, new technology, organic farming, and government policy are changing rural landscapes in the developed world.
10. Rural Change in Developing Countries
How genetic modification, new technology, and biofuels are changing rural landscapes in the developing world.
11. Climate Change
The evidence for climate change, its natural and human causes, its effects, and the strategies used to manage it.
12. Natural Regions
The tundra and equatorial rainforest climates and ecosystems, how human activity affects them, and how the resulting land degradation is managed.
13. Environmental Hazards
The main features, causes, and impacts of earthquakes, volcanoes, and tropical storms, and how they are predicted, planned for, and managed.
14. Trade & Globalisation
World trade patterns, the causes of trade inequality, and strategies such as fair trade used to reduce it.
15. Tourism
The factors driving the growth of global tourism, its effects on people and places, and how it can be managed responsibly.
16. Health
How global health differs between developed and developing countries, and the causes, effects, and management of major world diseases.
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