Identify - Pick out/ select/ find/ highlight. (This could often be used alongside a resource)

Describe - A detailed account. More simply – ‘Write down…’ Tell the examiner in your own words

what/ how/ or why something happens; must use words precisely

Evidence – This will ask you to either draw directly from a source of use a case study in your answer.

Physical Geography - covers the topics relating to the surface of the earth - the landforms, glaciers, rivers, climate, oceans, earth-sun interaction, hazards etc. if asked to look at physical factors/features or effects remember it must be about the earth.

Human Geography – Human features relate to features that we have developed, i.e. train stations, bridges. If asked about a human feature/feature you need to talk about people and what they have created.

Suggest - Offer ideas/ put forward ideas/ propose something.

Alternative – something different - give another idea to the one shown previously

Hypothesis – An educated prediction

Problems – if problem is included in the question you must talk about the negative impacts of a geographical process.

People – if you are asked to think about the impact of people, how does affect people’s lives?

Negative – bad points

Effect – how the process impacts people and the environment, what happens as a result of the process.

Disagree – are opposed to, may come up in a management question.

Sustainable – will keep going for ever

Sustainable Development – meeting the needs of today’s world without compromising that of the future.

Examples – if examples is in the question you must include a case study.

Compare- talk about the similarities and differences of two things.

Management – How people put strategies in place to ensure the best outcome.

Schemes – Plans put in place to manage geographical processes.

Pattern – describe the sequence whether it is predictable or not. (This will accompany a source)

Justify – Give reasons for, back up the point, may sometimes be your point of view.

Investigate - carry out a systematic or formal inquiry to discover and examine the facts of (an incident, allegation, etc.) so as to establish the truth.

Cause – The events that lead to a geographical process, for example the cause of a flood could be heavy rainfall.

Process – step by step description of what leads to the geographical process.

Reason - a cause, explanation, or justification for an action or event.

Formation – how something is formed.

Preventing – managing something before it has happened. How to stop it from happening.

Reducing the impact – Stopping the negative impacts of an event being as bad as they could.

Risk - a situation involving exposure to danger.

Renewable - not depleted when used.

Reduce – lessen

Explain – Give reasons for

Global – Around the whole world.

Consumption – What is used up

LIC – Lower income Country – Poor Country.

MIC – Middle Income Country – Country that is developing ie. China, India

HIC -High Income Country – Rich Country

Surplus – Too much

Deficit – Too Little

Regions – Areas of the world.

Domestic – At home/in the UK

Outline - Give only the most important details/ give a brief overview/ a brief explanation – often

carries fewer marks

Retreat – Move backwards

Government – Anything that the offices in charge have done, will often involve laws, police and international diplomacy.

Located Examples – If asked for in an exam you must give a case study and give its location.

Variation - a change or slight difference in condition, amount, or level, typically within certain limits.

Affected – Have impacted upon. Talking about impacts

Dispute – Argument look at both sides of the issue

Demand – Need for in a country

Globalisation - Globalisation is the process by which the world is becoming increasingly interconnected as a result of massively increased trade and cultural exchange. 

Distribution - the way in which something is shared out among a group or spread over an area.

Economic – anything to do with money, spending or cost.

Feature- a distinctive attribute or aspect of something

Country of Origin – Where something or somebody comes from.

Impact – How a geographic event of process impacts other people or environments.

International – Across borders

Frequent – happens on a regular occasion.

Social – People and Society.

Redevelopment – to knock something down and build again from scratch

Renewal – to use existing land and add to it to improve it – like a face life.

Influence - the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or the effect itself.

Advantages – Good things

Disadvantages – bad things

Effect – how it impacts people or the environment.

Political – anything to do with government

Environmental - Anything to do with landscape.