📝 Unit Assessment — Tuesday 22 September
Three sub-topics only, across Topic 4 and Topic 5. Each link below opens that
section of its study guide straight away.
Topics 1–7 — Study Guides
One guide per topic, one section per syllabus sub-topic, with checkpoint questions at the end of every section.
Built on the 2027–2029 syllabus. Environmental Management changed for exams from
2027 — the topics were renamed and reordered, and both papers are now 1 hour 45 minutes and 80 marks.
Most material online is still written for the old specification, so these guides follow the official
Cambridge syllabus for 2027 rather than a revision site.
Topic 1: Natural Resources
Rocks and the rock cycle, mining and its impacts, energy resources, conservation and fracking
6 sub-topics · 1.1 – 1.6 · Study guide · 74 checkpoint questions · videos · 6 data sources
Topic 2: Land
Soils and crop growth, food production and yield, and the causes and control of soil erosion
3 sub-topics · 2.1 – 2.3 · Study guide · 51 checkpoint questions · videos · 3 data sources
Topic 3: Water
The water cycle, supply and treatment, pollution, water-related disease, aquaculture, oil and plastics
6 sub-topics · 3.1 – 3.6 · Study guide · 93 checkpoint questions · videos · 8 data sources
Topic 4: The Atmosphere and Human ActivitiesUNIT ASSESSMENT · 4.2
Atmospheric structure, the greenhouse effect and climate change, acid rain and ozone depletion
4 sub-topics · 4.1 – 4.4 · Study guide · 34 checkpoint questionsON TUE 22 SEP: 4.2 CLIMATE CHANGE
Topic 5: Ecosystems, Biodiversity and FieldworkUNIT ASSESSMENT · 5.1, 5.2
Energy flow and cycles, forests and deforestation, conserving biodiversity, and how to run an investigation
4 sub-topics · 5.1 – 5.4 · Study guide · 40 checkpoint questionsON TUE 22 SEP: 5.1 ECOSYSTEMS + 5.2 FOREST ECOSYSTEMS
Topic 6: Natural Hazards
Earthquakes and volcanoes, tropical cyclones, flooding and drought — impacts, management and opportunities
4 sub-topics · 6.1 – 6.4 · Study guide · 36 checkpoint questions
Topic 7: Human Population
Population density, distribution and structure, what changes population size, and how it is managed
3 sub-topics · 7.1 – 7.3 · Study guide · 26 checkpoint questions
Challenge — Topics 1–3
The step up from knowing the content to scoring the marks. Each topic has a prep guide that teaches the technique, then two 40-mark papers to use it on.
Why the prep guide comes first. Every objective in Topics 1–3 is already taught in
the study guides, so these are not more content. They drill the things that separate a grade 6 from a
grade 8 — the “discuss the benefits and limitations” frame, reading a source and quoting
figures, and reaching a judgement rather than listing two sides. Paper 2 is 40 % AO3
and source-led, which is the hardest half to pick up by reading.
Topic 1 — Challenge Prep
Exam technique for Natural Resources. Weak, middling and strong answers to the same question, with the mark difference explained.
Prep guide · 25 checkpoints · worked exemplars · 2 source sets
Topic 1 — Paper 1 Challenge
Principles. Structured questions across 1.1–1.6, building to an extended discuss.
40 marks · 45 min · 7 questions · self-marked
Topic 1 — Paper 2 Challenge
In context. Every question hangs off a chart, table or map you have to read first.
40 marks · 50 min · source-led · AO3 weighted
Topic 2 — Challenge Prep
Exam technique for Land. Chaining a describe-and-explain answer so the mechanism earns its marks, not just the name.
Prep guide · worked exemplars · source sets
Topic 2 — Paper 1 Challenge
Principles. Structured questions across 2.1–2.3, building to an extended discuss.
40 marks · 45 min · 7 questions · self-marked
Topic 2 — Paper 2 Challenge
In context. Soil-loss chart, climate table, two-farm comparison and a contour map.
40 marks · 50 min · source-led · AO3 weighted
Topic 3 — Challenge Prep
Exam technique for Water. One discuss frame drilled across desalination, dams, disease control and fishing quotas.
Prep guide · 22 checkpoints · worked exemplars · 3 source sets
Topic 3 — Paper 1 Challenge
Principles. Structured questions across 3.1–3.6, building to an extended discuss.
40 marks · 45 min · self-marked
Topic 3 — Paper 2 Challenge
In context. Every question hangs off a chart, table or map you have to read first.
40 marks · 50 min · source-led · AO3 weighted
Challenge — Unit Assessment (Sep 2026)
Built for the school unit: 4.2 Climate change, 5.1 Ecosystems and 5.2 Forest ecosystems, and nothing outside them. Section A tests the content; Section B is source led, the way 0680 Paper 2 works.
Full Syllabus Exam Papers
Two full papers matching the real structure — 80 marks and 1 hour 45 minutes each, self-marked against a Cambridge-style mark scheme.
Earlier Material
Built before the topic guides. Kept because the condensed guide is a good last-minute revision sweep, and the animated lessons and chat pages cover the first five units in a different style.
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Comprehensive Study Guide
One-page condensed revision sweep — syllabus checklists, key concepts, flashcards and quick quizzes. Covers fieldwork skills and Topics 1–4 only.
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Animated lessons
Interactive chat
Two papers, both 50%. Paper 1 is principles; Paper 2 is context, data and fieldwork.
Investigation skills are 27% of the whole qualification — which is why Topic 5.4 is worth more
of your time than its length suggests.