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AQA · A-Level · 7037
Geography
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3,320 questions
GeographyContents
Contents
11 topics, 251 subtopics
  1. Water and Carbon Cycles377
  2. Hot Desert Systems and Landscapes223
  3. Coastal Systems and Landscapes199
  4. Glacial Systems and Landscapes227
  5. Hazards407
  6. Ecosystems Under Stress357
  7. Global Systems and Global Governance265
  8. Changing Places220
  9. Contemporary Urban Environments386
  10. Population and the Environment322
  11. Resource Security337
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Hot Desert Systems and LandscapesQuestions
Hot Desert Systems and Landscapes
Deserts as Systems: Inputs, Stores, Flows and Feedback
  1. What are the six main components that make up a system in physical geography?
  2. Define what inputs are in a physical geography system.
  3. Define what outputs are in a physical geography system.
  4. What role does energy play in a physical geography system?
  5. What are stores or components in a physical geography system?
  6. Define flows or transfers in the context of a physical geography system.
  7. What are feedback mechanisms in a physical geography system?
  8. Name four inputs to a desert system.
  9. What are the main outputs from a desert system?
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Deserts as Systems: Inputs, Stores, Flows and Feedback
  1. Inputs, outputs, energy, stores/components, flows/transfers, and feedback mechanisms.
  2. Inputs are additions of energy or matter entering the system from outside.
  3. Outputs are losses of energy or matter leaving the system.
  4. Energy drives the processes and transfers within the system, enabling work to be done.
  5. Stores or components are places where energy or matter is held within the system.
  6. Flows or transfers are movements of energy or matter between stores within the system.
  7. Feedback mechanisms are processes where outputs of the system influence subsequent inputs, either amplifying or dampening change.
  8. Solar energy, precipitation, wind-blown sediment, and weathered material from surrounding areas.
  9. Evaporation, sediment transported out by wind or ephemeral streams, and heat radiation.
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HazardsQuestions
Hazards
The Park Model
  1. What does the Park model illustrate about communities affected by hazards?
  2. In the Park model, what characterises the pre-disaster normality phase?
  3. What happens during the hazard event and decline phase of the Park model?
  4. What occurs during the relief and rehabilitation phase of the Park model?
  5. What characterises the reconstruction and recovery phase in the Park model?
  6. According to the Park model, what are the three possible outcomes for quality of life after recovery?
  7. In the Park model, what characterises the pre-disaster stage?
  8. In the Park model, what happens during the relief stage?
  9. In the Park model, what characterises the rehabilitation stage?
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The Park Model
  1. How the quality of life in a community changes over time following a hazard event, showing decline during the event and subsequent recovery phases.
  2. The baseline quality of life in a community before a hazard event occurs.
  3. The hazard event causes quality of life to fall sharply as impacts are experienced.
  4. Immediate assistance is provided and initial steps are taken to restore basic services and support affected populations.
  5. Longer-term rebuilding of infrastructure and restoration of quality of life towards or beyond pre-disaster levels.
  6. Quality of life can return to the original level, exceed it through improvements, or remain permanently lower depending on the response.
  7. Normal activity levels before the hazard event occurs; preparedness measures may be in place
  8. Activity levels drop sharply as the disaster occurs; immediate emergency response focuses on saving lives and providing basic needs
  9. Activity levels begin to recover as temporary measures are replaced by more permanent solutions and services are restored
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Contemporary Urban EnvironmentsQuestions
Contemporary Urban Environments
Urbanisation and Its Related Processes
  1. What is urbanisation?
  2. Define suburbanisation.
  3. What is counter-urbanisation?
  4. Define urban resurgence.
  5. What population threshold defines a megacity?
  6. What is a world city?
  7. In which global regions has the most rapid urbanisation occurred since 1945?
  8. Why have developed countries largely stabilised at high urban population percentages?
  9. When did the global urban population first exceed 50 percent of the total world population?
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Urbanisation and Its Related Processes
  1. The process by which an increasing proportion of a population comes to live in towns and cities.
  2. The outward growth of urban areas into surrounding rural fringes, often along transport routes.
  3. The movement of population away from large urban areas to smaller towns and rural areas.
  4. The movement of people and economic activity back into city centres after a period of decline.
  5. An urban agglomeration with a population exceeding 10 million inhabitants.
  6. A city that acts as a major node in the global economic system, exerting significant influence on international business, finance, politics and culture.
  7. Developing regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
  8. They experienced high urbanisation rates earlier in their development and have now reached saturation levels.
  9. Around 2007-2008.
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