I'll give you a brief summary of the Higher Geography course.
Paper 1:
Human Geography (ie. Best geography
)
1. Population - why population patterns are different from country to country, census, migration
2. Urban - land uses of areas in a city, why settlements grew and looking at a case study for that, changes to zones in a city
3. Industry - the reasons why industry locate in a certain area, case study, industrial decline and effects of it, redeveloping industry after industrial decline
4. Rural - farming types, characteristics of these farming types, changes to farming
Physical Geography
1. Atmosphere - the most scientific module in geography, why areas in the world are hotter than others, distribution of heat energy etc (i'm currently on this topic atm so I don't know everything about it)
2. Lithosphere - Glaciers (features of deposition and erosion), Limestone (features of erosion), Coasts (features of deposition and erosion)
3. Hydrosphere - Rivers and their features and characteristics of different parts of a river.
4. Biosphere - soil, 3 different types of soil and vegetation succession in a sand dune (zzzzzzzzz)
Paper 2:
Your school chooses 2 topics but I'm doing:
1. Rural land resources - socio-economic opportunities in the case studies, conflicts with these opportunities and are they effective or not.
2. Development and Health - why there is varied development within a country and between countries, measurements of development, case study of a ELDC, disease - why does it spread, ways to control it, are they effective.
IMO the best topics are :
Urban, Population, Development and Health and Industry
Hope that helped in some way