Pearson Edexcel International GCSE Geography
Find a lesson, practise a skill or work on an exam answer.
Lessons and practice for this course
These lessons cover selected parts of the course, including optional topics. Follow the options your class studies.
Detailed lesson mapping for this route is still incomplete. Browse shared topic explanations and check each against the official content and your taught options.
Map, graph and calculation practice · General fieldwork methods · Written-answer practice
Save my course
Save your course to give relevant search results priority. Your choice stays on this browser.
Practise an exam answer
Official specification and assessment requirements
Open the official qualification source
Explore selected parts of your course through skills practice, process lessons and sourced case evidence.
This is the linear 4GE1 route. Confirm your paper options and fieldwork requirements from the current download.
UK GCSE A and B timings and decision-making conditions must not be imported.
What is available here
Explore maps and data, practise methods, use case evidence and try an original assessment pack.
Skills practice · Written-answer practice · Create an original assessment
Mapped content areas
- Physical geography
- Human geography
- Geographical skills and fieldwork
Check your taught examples
- A country’s developmentUse the required national scale and income/development context.; Explain economic change, international connections and uneven social outcomes.; A city intervention alone cannot fulfil a national case.
- Urban growth and changeIdentify the city and its national context.; Connect opportunities and challenges to growth and migration.; A transport project covers only part of a whole-city case.
- A UK cityIdentify the city and its regional connections.; Explain social, economic and environmental change.; Add your taught evidence beyond the intervention shown here.
- Tropical rainforest use and managementIdentify the rainforest and country or region.; Explain causes, consequences and management of forest change.; An Indonesian Borneo example is not automatically a Malaysian case.
- A tectonic hazard eventName and date the event.; Separate the tectonic process from exposure and vulnerability.; Use contrasting examples where your specification requires them.
- A tropical stormName and date the storm.; Explain hazards, impacts and responses.; Identify whether a number is an estimate, observation or forecast.
- Coastal managementIdentify the defended or realigned coastal stretch.; Explain how the intervention changes risk and sediment or habitats.; Evaluate consequences for different people and timescales.
- River flooding and managementSeparate the catchment, affected settlement and intervention.; Explain rainfall, flows, exposure and response.; Assess residual risk and avoid promising complete protection.
- Water supply and securityDefine the supply area and period.; Connect physical availability, demand and infrastructure.; Evaluate financial, energy, ecological and distributional effects.
- Energy supply and transitionsDistinguish capacity from generation.; Identify the technology, location and time period.; Assess reliability, access and environmental consequences.
- An ecosystem and its managementIdentify the ecosystem’s scale and processes.; Explain interactions and human pressures.; Do not attribute every change to a single cause.