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Writing good-quality short answers in physical geography

Do you find physical geography harder than human geography? This column will help you tackle shorter questions (1–4 marks) on physical geography.

Table 1 Key words on rivers

What’s tough about physical geography? One thing that students find hard about physical geography is the number of key words. Unlike human geography, where words like ‘population’ are in everyday use, key words in physical geography are only used in physical topics. One topic — rivers — has 28 key words that you might need to know for GCSE (see Table 1). That’s a lot to learn.

You need to know some or all of the key words in Table 1 for four reasons:

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