Cambridge
International AS and A Level
Geography Garrett Nagle & Paul Guinness
To Angela, Rosie, Patrick and Bethany Hodder Education, an Hachette UK company, 338 Euston Road, London NW1 3BH Orders Bookpoint Ltd, 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 4SB tel: 01235 827827
fax: 01235 400401
e-mail:
[email protected] Lines are open 9.00 a.m.–5.00 p.m., Monday to Saturday, with a 24-hour message answering service. You can also order through the Hodder Education website: www.hoddereducation.co.uk © Garrett Nagle & Paul Guinness 2013 ISBN 978-1-4441-8148-7 First printed 2013 Impression number 5 4 3 2 1
Year 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without either the prior written permission of Hodder Education or a licence permitting restricted copying in the United Kingdom issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Cover photo by Chris Guinness Typeset by Datapage (India) Pvt. Ltd. Printed by Anthony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire This text has not been through the Cambridge endorsement process. Hachette UK’s policy is to use papers that are natural, renewable and recyclable products and made from wood grown in sustainable forests. The logging and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin.
Get the most from this book Everyone has to decide his or her own revision strategy, but it is essential to review your work, learn it and test your understanding. This Revision Guide will help you to do that in a planned way, topic by topic. Use this book as the cornerstone of your revision and don’t hesitate to write in it — personalise your notes and check your progress by ticking off each section as you revise.
My revision planner Paper 1 Core Geography
1 Hydrology and fluvial geomorphology 7 1.1 The drainage basin system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.2 Rainfall–discharge relationships within drainage basins . . . . 11 1.3 River channel processes and landforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 1.4 The human impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Atmosphere and