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OCR · A-Level · H481
Geography
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3,740 questions
GeographyContents
Contents
15 topics, 249 subtopics
  1. Coastal Landscapes260
  2. Glaciated Landscapes267
  3. Dryland Landscapes255
  4. Earth’s Life Support Systems271
  5. Changing Spaces; Making Places276
  6. Trade in the Contemporary World174
  7. Global Migration159
  8. Human Rights147
  9. Power and Borders168
  10. Climate Change323
  11. Disease Dilemmas271
  12. Exploring Oceans346
  13. and 3 more
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Glaciated LandscapesQuestions
Glaciated Landscapes
The glacier system: inputs, stores, flows and outputs
  1. What does it mean to describe a glaciated landscape as an open system?
  2. Name the three main inputs of matter into a glaciated landscape system.
  3. Which two sources supply the energy that drives a glaciated landscape system?
  4. State two outputs from a glaciated landscape system.
  5. What is a store in a glaciated landscape system?
  6. Explain the difference between a store and a flow in a glacial system.
  7. Give three examples of flows within a glaciated landscape system.
  8. What is meant by dynamic equilibrium in a glaciated landscape system?
  9. What happens to a glacier when several years of unusually heavy snowfall increase its input of snow?
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The glacier system: inputs, stores, flows and outputs
  1. Both energy and matter can cross its boundaries, so the landscape exchanges material and energy with the environment around it.
  2. Snow and ice, rock debris from weathering and mass movement, and liquid water from rainfall and melt.
  3. Solar radiation, which drives melting and evaporation, and gravitational potential energy, which drives the movement of ice, water and debris downslope.
  4. Meltwater and water vapour leaving the system, and sediment carried out beyond the ice margin by meltwater streams or icebergs.
  5. A place where matter or energy is held for a period of time, such as the glacier ice itself, a snowfield, a moraine or a proglacial lake.
  6. A store holds material in one place, while a flow is the transfer of material or energy from one store to another.
  7. Avalanche and rockfall delivering snow and debris to the ice, the movement of the glacier itself, and meltwater flowing through and beneath the ice.
  8. Inputs and outputs are balanced over time, so the size and form of the system stay broadly constant while material continues to move through it.
  9. It gains mass and advances into lower, warmer ground where melting is faster, until losses rise to match the extra input.
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Global MigrationQuestions
Global Migration
Inter-regional and intra-regional flows, and the world's major migration corridors
  1. Define inter-regional migration.
  2. Define intra-regional migration.
  3. Name the world's largest bilateral migration corridor.
  4. Give an example of a major inter-regional corridor linking South Asia to the Middle East.
  5. Explain what is meant by a migration corridor.
  6. Why do bilateral corridors, once established, tend to persist and grow?
  7. Give an example of intra-regional migration within Africa.
  8. Give an example of intra-regional migration within South East Asia.
  9. Why have the Gulf states become one of the world's largest destinations for migrant labour?
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Inter-regional and intra-regional flows, and the world's major migration corridors
  1. Inter-regional migration is movement from one world region to another, such as from South Asia to the Gulf.
  2. Intra-regional migration is movement between countries within the same world region, such as from Poland to Germany within Europe.
  3. The corridor from Mexico to the United States, along which around 11 million people have moved.
  4. The corridor from India to the United Arab Emirates, which carries around 3.5 million migrants.
  5. A migration corridor is an established, high-volume flow between one particular origin country and one particular destination country, sustained over many years.
  6. Chain migration means earlier arrivals supply housing, jobs, information and money to those who follow, which lowers the cost and the risk of taking the same route.
  7. Movement from Zimbabwe and Mozambique into South Africa, drawn by its mines, commercial farms and cities.
  8. Movement from Myanmar into Thailand, where migrants work in fishing, construction and agriculture.
  9. Oil revenues funded construction and service sectors far too large for small national populations to staff, so states recruited millions of workers from South and South East Asia.
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Exploring OceansQuestions
Exploring Oceans
The size and spread of the world's oceans
  1. Roughly what proportion of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean?
  2. State the approximate total surface area of the world's oceans.
  3. Approximately what volume of water do the oceans hold?
  4. What share of all the water on Earth is held in the oceans?
  5. Name the five named oceans recognised today.
  6. Which ocean is the largest, and roughly how much of the ocean surface does it occupy?
  7. Which ocean is the smallest and shallowest, and what is its approximate mean depth?
  8. State the approximate mean depth of the world's oceans.
  9. Where is the deepest known point of the ocean, and how deep is it?
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The size and spread of the world's oceans
  1. About 71% of the Earth's surface is ocean, leaving roughly 29% as land.
  2. The oceans cover an area of about 361 million km².
  3. The oceans hold roughly 1.34 billion km³ of water.
  4. About 97% of the Earth's water is held in the oceans as saline water.
  5. They are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Arctic Oceans.
  6. The Pacific is the largest, covering about 165 million km², which is close to half of all ocean area.
  7. The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest, with a mean depth of only about 1,200 m.
  8. The mean depth of the oceans is roughly 3,700 m.
  9. The Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific reaches about 10,900 m.
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