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Exam key terms

Typing practice for GCSE Geography

River and coastal processes, fieldwork and data-handling vocabulary, and a lesson of Welsh place names with the diacritics they actually carry.

Terms
413
Lessons
14
Spec code
3140QS

Terminology aligned to the WJEC GCSE Geography specification, first teaching 2025.

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A sample of what pupils type

One term from each topic in the pack, so you can judge the level before signing up. These are the real strings, straight out of the lessons.

  • global hydrological cycle
  • Shoreline Management Plan
  • rural to urban migration
  • Central Business District
  • Geographical Information Systems
  • measures of central tendency
  • Newly industrialised country
  • global atmospheric circulation
  • Intertropical Convergence Zone
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
  • United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
  • Twyni Tywod Merthyr Mawr
  • Hydro-electric power
  • freeze-thaw weathering
  • international migration
  • primary data collection sheet
  • proportional symbols map

What the pack covers

Topics follow the specification's own content areas, so a teacher can set the one the class is on this week.

Our Physical and Human World

  • 1.1 Drainage basin and rivers
  • 1.2 Changing coastlines
  • 1.3 Migration
  • 1.4 Settlement change

Developing Fieldwork Skills

  • 2.1 Planning an enquiry and collecting evidence
  • 2.2 Processing, analysing and evaluating evidence

Our Dynamic and Diverse World

  • 3.1 The geography of inequality
  • 3.2 The highs and lows of our weather
  • 3.3 Wild weather
  • 3.4 Continual climate change
  • 3.5 Managing global challenges

Sustainable Solutions

  • 4.1 Sustainability and sustainable decisions

Places in Wales

  • 5.1 Places in Wales
  • 5.2 Explaining terms in your own words

How a lesson works

Each lesson has five parts drawn from its term pool, so nobody memorises one screen of text. The pass mark is 92 per cent accuracy, higher than the touch-typing course, because a misspelled technical term is a wrong answer rather than a slow one. Lessons do not lock, so pupils revise whatever they are covering in class.

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Where the terminology comes from

Each pack is curated from the published specification and the Guidance for Teaching for that qualification. We list individual subject terms only, and every definition and example sentence is written from scratch.

  • WJEC GCSE Geography Specification (Version 5 - September 2025)
  • WJEC GCSE Geography Guidance for Teaching: Unit 1 (Version 2 - September 2025)
  • WJEC GCSE Geography Guidance for Teaching: Unit 2 (Undated)
  • WJEC GCSE Geography Guidance for Teaching: Unit 3 (Undated)
  • WJEC GCSE Geography Guidance for Teaching: Unit 4 (Undated)

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