Tag Archive: AS 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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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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