Explain how both natural and human factors contribute to climate change. [6 marks]
AO1 (published assessment objective): Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas; select and synthesise evidence from different texts (English Language). For Literature: read, understand and respond to texts, maintaining a critical style, developing an informed personal response, and using textual references including quotations to support and illustrate interpretations. For Geography: demonstrate knowledge of locations, places, processes, environments and different scales. For History: demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the key features and characteristics of the periods studied.
AO2 (published assessment objective): Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views (English). For Geography: demonstrate geographical understanding of concepts and how they are used in relation to places, environments and processes, and the interrelationships between places, environments and processes. For History: explain and analyse historical events and periods studied using second-order historical concepts.
Assessed against AO1, AO2 using Revision Robin's own level descriptors below. These are not the exam board's mark scheme. Every quotation in the feedback is checked against your answer before you see it, and a teacher's mark overrides ours.
| Level 3 · 5 to 6 | Detailed and accurate knowledge and understanding of relevant natural and human factors contributing to climate change. Detailed and clear explanation of how these factors cause changes in the global climate. Concepts and terminology are used with precision and accuracy. |
| Level 2 · 3 to 4 | Clear knowledge and understanding of relevant natural and/or human factors contributing to climate change. Clear explanation of how these factors cause changes in the global climate, though may lack some detail or balance. Concepts and terminology are generally used correctly. |
| Level 1 · 1 to 2 | Basic knowledge and understanding of natural and/or human factors. Limited or basic explanation of how these factors contribute to climate change, possibly listing points without development. Use of geographical terminology is basic or may contain inaccuracies. |