Edexcel GCE Geography unit 4: Geographical Research

I'm doing food and famine - mostly focused on desertification... not bad.

I am doing food and famine, for me its like the worst of the enquiry questions cos it is the one I don't really get. You know in the pre-release it talks about processes leading to food insecurity is it talking about like salinisation and desertification (I can't really think of any others) or do you think it is like including human reasons in "processes"?

I think because it mentions desertification as one of the processes, that will be what the question is focused around. But i think it's worth learning all the processes leading to food insecurity - human and physical.

Physical would be things like drought, salinisation, high winds/dust storms, hot climate etc.

Human would be things like overcultivation, trampling, ignoring of fallow periods, improper farming techniques etc

anyone doing the tectonics one ?

anyone doing the tectonics one ?

Tectonics for me! really open the question will be something like ... “Using named examples explain the factors that lead to tectonic hazards producing impacts on different scales around the world”

any one else doing culture?

Hey, I'm doing human health and pollution. It's good that it's on causes which is easily the nicest section of the spec, but I'm worried about how open it is. I'm predicting some question like 'Discuss to what extent human and physical factors influence health risk' which would be nice and pretty easy but SO broad.

On the issue of pollution, I'd still include it in your revision because pollution can be classed as an environmental factor. I'm kind of stuck now, not sure what to do next. I guess I'll try and think of case studies with specific human or physical causes and then some examples that combine the two.

Is any one else doing this unit, and if so how are you going to revise now??? Oh and good luck everyone!

Hey, I'm doing human health and pollution. It's good that it's on causes which is easily the nicest section of the spec, but I'm worried about how open it is. I'm predicting some question like 'Discuss to what extent human and physical factors influence health risk' which would be nice and pretty easy but SO broad.

On the issue of pollution, I'd still include it in your revision because pollution can be classed as an environmental factor. I'm kind of stuck now, not sure what to do next. I guess I'll try and think of case studies with specific human or physical causes and then some examples that combine the two.

Is any one else doing this unit, and if so how are you going to revise now??? Oh and good luck everyone!

Hey i'm doing pollution too. It says get a examples at a 'range of locations' my teacher suggested doing local, national and global but I was wondering if this would be too hard to try fit in specific transport, environment and 'other' case studies I was also thinking of doing MEDCs vs LEDCs but not sure which to choose and not sure if i'm looking too deeply into varying location! A bit stressed have you though about this bit yet?