Level 3.
# can offer reasons for observations and judgements about places.

^ can compare the physical and human features of places.
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Level 4.
# can use a range of geographical skills to investigate places and can suggest suitable geographical questions.

^ can communicate their findings using appropriate vocabulary. 

^ can begin to describe patterns and ^ understands how processes can change places and the lives of people living there.

^ can describe how people can improve and damage the environment.
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Level 5.
# can select appropriate skills to investigate places and can identify relevant geographical questions.

^ can reach valid conclusions and present information in writing and in graphs.

^ can offer explanations for similarities and differences between places

^ can describe and begin to offer explanations for a range of physical and human processes.

^ can offer explanations for ways in which people affect environments and recognise that people attempt to manage and improve them.
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Level 6.
# can identify relevant geographical questions and suggest sequences for investigation.

^ can present conclusions  which are consistent with the evidence.

^ can explain a range of physical and human processes.

^ recognises that there are different approaches to managing the environments
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Level 7.
# can identify geographical questions and select and use accurately a wide range of appropriate skills.

^ can begin to reach substantiated conclusions.

^ shows sound knowledge and understanding and has developed a range of appropriate geographical skills.

^ recognises that human actions have environmental consequences and that change may lead to conflict. 
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