Tag Archive: A Level

Jan 02 2012

AS Level Geography: Impacts and Management of an Ageing Population

In earlier posts, you have been able to understand how and why population changes. It is now time to learn how population can influence decisions made within the society. In these earlier posts, when the word ‘population’ had been used, I have analysed its number, stating why the population number changes. However, when analysing the …

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Jan 02 2012

AS Level Geography: Population Structures

population pyramids

First of all, a Happy New Year is in order for all you Human Geographers, a thank you for your continued interest and an apology for the lack of posts recently… but we’re back! Following on from the DTM, the AQA specification moves on to population structures, linking them back to the various stages of …

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Dec 31 2011

A2 AQA Revision Note – Multinational Companies

First of all, Happy New Year ;D!! I wish the best for all of you and good luck keeping those new year resolutions ~ In the AQA A2 Geography exam (unit 3), the topic of multinational companies (or TNCs – Transnational companies depending on your preference) plays a relatively large role in the globalisation and …

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Sep 01 2011

AS Level Geography: The applicability of the DTM

Conveniently following on from my last post (which is a vital read before this one!), the applicability of the DTM is a MUST KNOW to pick up really easy marks. Just memorise key points for the strengths and weaknesses of the model and 15 marks are virtually in the bag! One must not, however, that …

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Aug 26 2011

AS Level Geography: The Demographic Transition Model

The Demographic Transition Model

In this post, I explain the mechanisms of the DTM which to the naked eye can be rather intimidating. The DTM normally plays a part in every AS exam, whether that’s unit 1 or 2, so you MUST know it. After this post, one should be able to easily understand what the model represents (or …

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Aug 06 2011

Population Indicators: The core part of your (Human) Geography AS Level.

The core section of the AS level Specification is Population – You will all need to know it inside and out. There are also core parts of the population section that you all need to know the ins and outs of, even if they seem very basic. These are known as population indicators; essential to …

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Jul 16 2011

Strolling Through the Economical Side of Geography

Being both an economics and geography student, I know for a fact that economics plays a crucial role when it comes to human geography. The two subjects often inter-relate with each other (more so geography bringing economics in rather than economics relating to geography, from my experiences but I may be wrong) and thus I …

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Jul 10 2011

Helping you with your A Level Human Geography needs.

Hello! I’m Reece Broome, diving into the deep end of the ‘blogging pool’, so to speak. Many would agree that being a year 12 student, based in Plymouth attending Devonport High, studying 5 AS Levels and having a somewhat severe interest in every human aspect of Geography is quite the admirable position to be in. …

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