Food | AQA GCSE Geography (8035)
Food
- 54 questions
- 3 subtopics
- Paper 2
- Paper 2
Food is examined in Paper 2, Challenges in the human environment.
It covers food security and insecurity: patterns, causes and impacts, strategies to increase food supply and towards a sustainable food supply.
Sample questions from Food
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Food security and insecurity: patterns, causes and impacts
Why does a growing population raise food consumption even if people's diets do not change?
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Because there are simply more mouths to feed each year, so the total amount of food the country needs keeps rising. -
Food security and insecurity: patterns, causes and impacts
How does poverty reduce both the growing and the buying of food?
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Poor farmers cannot afford seed, fertiliser, machinery or irrigation so their yields stay low, and poor families cannot afford to buy the food that is available. -
Strategies to increase food supply
What is meant by the new green revolution?
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A push to raise yields in ways that also protect soil, water and wildlife, using improved seed, water-saving methods and knowledge shared with small farmers. -
Strategies to increase food supply
What is Thanet Earth?
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The UK's largest greenhouse complex, opened in 2008 on farmland in east Kent and covering about 90 hectares, where salad crops are grown by hydroponics. -
Towards a sustainable food supply
Give two advantages of growing food within a city.
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The food travels only a short distance so little fuel is used and it arrives fresh, and it gives city residents cheaper food and often an income. -
Towards a sustainable food supply
Why do small local schemes often succeed in an LIC or NEE where large projects fail?
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Because they are cheap, use local materials and skills, and are owned and run by the community itself, so people are able and willing to keep them going.
The 3 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Food security and insecurity: patterns, causes and impacts | Food security, insecurity, surplus and deficit, the global pattern of calorie intake, why consumption rises, how climate, technology, pests, water stress, conflict and poverty affect supply, and famine, undernutrition, soil erosion, rising prices and unrest. | 18 |
| Strategies to increase food supply | Irrigation, hydroponics and aeroponics, the new green revolution, biotechnology and genetically modified crops, appropriate technology, and Thanet Earth in Kent as a large-scale agricultural development with advantages and disadvantages. | 17 |
| Towards a sustainable food supply | Organic farming, permaculture, urban farming, sustainable fish and meat, seasonal food, cutting waste and losses, and why small local schemes succeed, with the Makueni Food and Water Security Programme in Kenya. | 19 |
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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