AQA · A-Level
Environmental Science
Course 7447
Course outline
111 topics
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Paper 155 topics
- The physical environment3 objectives
- How atmospheric energy processes involving ultra violet (UV), infrared (IR) and visible light in the stratosphere and troposphere affect life-support systems11 objectives
- Global climate change: how interconnected natural systems cause environmental change44 objectives
- Ozone depletion34 objectives
- The impact of unsustainable exploitation4 objectives
- Analysis and evaluation of strategies for sustainable management1 objective
- Ocean currents: the importance of thermohaline circulation in distributing heat and regulating climate1 objective
- Increasing sustainability by treating contaminated water7 objectives
- Increasing sustainability by economical use and the exploitation of new sources9 objectives
- Minerals extracted from the lithosphere5 objectives
- Geological processes that produced localised concentrations of recoverable mineral deposits6 objectives
- Reserves and resource4 objectives
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Paper 251 topics
- The living environment1 objective
- How the main conditions, which allowed early life to develop and survive on planet Earth, came about8 objectives
- How the presence of life on Earth has brought about environmental change5 objectives
- How historical conditions for life were monitored in the past and how these methods have been developed over time16 objectives
- How humans influence biodiversity, with examples in a range of different context25 objectives
- How adaptation to the environment affects species’ habitat requirements and influences conservation decision-making14 objectives
- Terminology to describe the roles of living organisms in their habitats and their interactions with the physical environment9 objectives
- The control of ecological succession in conserving plagioclimax habitats15 objectives
- How population control and the management of desired and undesired species affects the conservation of biodiversity6 objectives
- 3.1.2.3.6 The development of new technologies for ecological monitoring7 objectives
- 3.1.2.3.5 The importance of ecological monitoring in conservation planning7 objectives
- 3.1.2.1.2 Knowledge of how decisions over habitat conservation can be made to protect those species that have not yet been investigated12 objectives
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3.7 Research methods5 topics
- Research methods6 objectives
- Scientific methodologies13 objectives
- Standard environmental techniques44 objectives
- Fieldwork and laboratory activities19 objectives
- Specialist techniques17 objectives