PIXL “Thinking Hard” Booklets — AQA GCSE Geography — Whole Specification in Detail — Includes Answer

PIXL “Thinking Hard” Booklets — AQA GCSE 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
Natural Hazards: Covers tectonic hazards (plate margins, effects, and management) and weather hazards (tropical storms, UK weather).

Climate Change: Explores the causes, effects, and management of climate change.

Ecosystems: Studies local ecosystems, global biomes (e.g., tropical rainforests, hot deserts), and the challenges of desertification.

Landscapes: Examines the formation of coastal and river landscapes (erosional and depositional), their management, and glacial landscapes.

Human Geography
Urbanisation: Focuses on global trends, urban growth in low-income countries, urban planning, and sustainable urban living.

Development: Explores how to measure development, methods to reduce the development gap, and the changing UK economy.

Resource Management: Looks at global resource management, with a focus on food, water, and energy security.