PIXL “Thinking Hard” Booklets — AQA A-level Geography — Whole Specification in Detail — & Answers

PIXL “Thinking Hard” Booklets — AQA A-level Geography — Whole Specification in Detail — Includes Answers
Give your class a rigorous thinking workout while ensuring complete specification coverage. This printable booklet turns every part of the spec into clear, student-friendly tasks with built-in Grade 9 extensions. You also get a full answer set to support self-marking, quick feedback, and targeted intervention. Developed by an experienced UK teacher with the support of AI-assisted planning tools to ensure consistency, clarity and full-spec coverage. Save hours of planning: fully mapped to the whole specification, print-and-go, with answers included.
What’s inside
Whole-spec coverage: all topics, sub-topics, must-know content, misconceptions and key vocabulary mapped across the entire specification in detail.

PIXL strategies: Odd One Out • Always / Sometimes / Never True • Why? Why? Why? (5-deep) • Spot the Mistake • Diamond 9 / Ranking • Link It Up / Connections • Convince Me • What If? • Mini Retrieval (plus optional extras: If This Is the Answer…, Reduce It 30–3–2–1, Causation vs Correlation, Assumption Hunt).

Answers included: model points, sample justifications and marking guidance to make self-assessment easy.

Grade 9 stretch: every section has an Extension Task for analysis, evaluation and comparison.

Student-friendly layout: concise prompts, minimal prep, black-and-white printer-friendly.

Physical Geography: The water and carbon cycles and their role in the climate. It also covers natural systems like deserts, coasts, and glaciers, including their processes, landscape development, and human impacts.

Human Geography: Explores globalisation, including international trade and migration. It examines urbanisation, urban challenges, and sustainable urban development. The section also covers population change and dynamics.

Hazards & Systems: The concept of geographical hazards, with a focus on plate tectonics, volcanic and seismic hazards, storms, and fires.

Ecosystems: Covers ecosystems and biomes, with a focus on sustainability and case studies of stressed ecosystems.

Resources: Examines natural resource issues, with a focus on water, energy, and mineral security.

Fieldwork: The requirements for an independent investigation, including data collection and analysis skills.