Energy | AQA GCSE Geography (8035)
Energy
- 64 questions
- 4 subtopics
- Paper 2
- Paper 2
Energy is examined in Paper 2, Challenges in the human environment.
It covers energy surplus and deficit, and why demand is rising, the impacts of energy insecurity, strategies to increase energy supply and towards a sustainable energy supply.
Sample questions from Energy
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Energy surplus and deficit, and why demand is rising
Which countries tend to have the biggest energy surpluses?
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Those with large reserves of fossil fuels, or great potential for hydro or geothermal power, set against a fairly small home demand. -
Energy surplus and deficit, and why demand is rising
Name three physical factors that decide how much energy a country can produce.
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Its geology and whether it holds coal, oil, gas or uranium; its climate and relief, which govern sunshine, wind and river power; and whether it lies near a plate boundary for geothermal heat. -
The impacts of energy insecurity
Give two economic costs that follow from energy insecurity.
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Fuel and electricity prices rise so households and businesses pay more, and huge sums must be spent importing energy or working ever more expensive reserves. -
The impacts of energy insecurity
How can a shortage of energy lead to conflict between countries?
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Where demand outruns supply, states compete for the same oil and gas fields, and disputes can flare over ownership of reserves, pipelines and territorial waters. -
Strategies to increase energy supply
How does tidal power differ from wave power?
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Tidal power uses the daily rise and fall of the sea, usually through a barrage across an estuary, while wave power captures the up-and-down motion of the water surface. -
Strategies to increase energy supply
What should you be able to explain about the fossil fuel extraction example you studied?
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How it brings jobs, investment and a secure supply of energy on one side, and damages habitats, pollutes air or water and adds greenhouse gases on the other. -
Towards a sustainable energy supply
How can a city make its transport more energy efficient?
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By providing trams, buses and cycle routes so fewer people drive alone, and by replacing petrol and diesel vehicles with electric or hybrid ones. -
Towards a sustainable energy supply
What social and economic benefits should you be able to describe for the local renewable energy scheme you studied?
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Light for study and work after dark, power for a school, clinic or workshop, cleaner cooking in place of wood smoke, and jobs building and maintaining it.
The 4 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Energy surplus and deficit, and why demand is rising | Energy security, surplus and deficit, who consumes most per person, why demand keeps rising, and the physical, economic, technological and political factors that shape supply. | 15 |
| The impacts of energy insecurity | Exploring the Arctic, deep ocean and tar sands, the economic and environmental costs, effects on food production and industry, and how energy shortages and shared rivers lead to conflict. | 10 |
| Strategies to increase energy supply | Renewable and non-renewable sources, how wind, hydro, tidal, wave, geothermal, biomass, solar and nuclear power work and their advantages and drawbacks, why fossil fuels still dominate, and fracking for shale gas at Preston New Road in Lancashire. | 18 |
| Towards a sustainable energy supply | Carbon footprints, energy conservation in homes, workplaces and transport, demand reduction, more efficient use of fossil fuels, and why small local renewable schemes suit poorer rural areas, with the Chambamontera micro-hydro scheme in Peru. | 21 |
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
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