Water | AQA GCSE Geography (8035)
Water
- 59 questions
- 4 subtopics
- Paper 2
- Paper 2
Water is examined in Paper 2, Challenges in the human environment.
It covers water surplus and deficit, and why demand is rising, the impacts of water insecurity, strategies to increase water supply and towards a sustainable water supply.
Sample questions from Water
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Water surplus and deficit, and why demand is rising
Which parts of the world tend to have the deepest water deficits?
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Dry subtropical belts such as North Africa, the Middle East, western Asia and inland Australia, and any densely populated or heavily irrigated region such as northern India and the western United States. -
Water surplus and deficit, and why demand is rising
How can geology limit the water available in an area?
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Permeable rock lets water sink out of reach or store only where an aquifer exists, while impermeable rock sheds it quickly to rivers instead of holding it underground. -
The impacts of water insecurity
Name three sources that pollute a water supply.
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Untreated sewage, industrial waste discharged into rivers, and fertiliser and pesticide washed off farmland. -
The impacts of water insecurity
Why does industry need a secure water supply?
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Water cools machinery and power stations, cleans and processes raw materials and is an ingredient in many products, so output falls without it. -
Strategies to increase water supply
Give two advantages of transferring water between basins.
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It lets a dry region grow crops and supply its cities reliably, and it makes use of water that would otherwise flow unused to the sea. -
Strategies to increase water supply
What should you be able to explain about the large-scale water transfer scheme you studied?
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Where the water is taken from and where it goes, why the scheme was built, and the benefits it brings set against its costs to people and the environment. -
Towards a sustainable water supply
What is groundwater management?
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Controlling how much water is pumped from aquifers, usually by licensing abstraction, so that it is not drawn out faster than rainfall can recharge it. -
Towards a sustainable water supply
What should you be able to say about the local water supply scheme you studied in a lower-income or emerging country?
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How the scheme collects or stores its water, who runs and maintains it, and how it improves health, farming and daily life in that community.
The 4 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Water surplus and deficit, and why demand is rising | Water security, surplus and deficit and their global pattern, why consumption rises with development and population, and how climate, geology, pollution, over-abstraction, limited infrastructure and poverty affect availability. | 14 |
| The impacts of water insecurity | Waterborne disease and who it hits hardest, pollution of supplies, how water shortages cut food production and industrial output, and why demand exceeding supply and rivers shared across borders can lead to conflict. | 11 |
| Strategies to increase water supply | Dams and reservoirs, water transfer schemes and desalination with their advantages and disadvantages, and the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, which transfers water from Lesotho's mountains to South Africa's Gauteng province. | 18 |
| Towards a sustainable water supply | Sustainable water supply, conservation in homes and farming, metering, groundwater management, recycling and grey water, and low-cost local schemes in poorer countries such as the sand dams of south-eastern Kenya. | 16 |
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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