Geographical Investigations - UK Challenges | Edexcel GCSE Geography A (1GA0)
Geographical Investigations - UK Challenges
- 44 questions
- 4 subtopics
- Paper 3
- Paper 3
Geographical Investigations − UK Challenges is examined in Paper 3, Geographical Investigations: Fieldwork and UK Challenges.
It covers the UK’s resource consumption and sustainability challenge, the UK’s settlement, population and economic challenges, the UK’s landscape challenges: National Parks and flood risk and the UK’s climate change challenges.
Sample questions from Geographical Investigations - UK Challenges
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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The UK’s resource consumption and sustainability challenge
How does a larger population raise the demand on UK water, energy and food supplies?
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Every extra home has to be supplied with water, heated and lit, and its occupants fed, so total demand climbs even if each person consumes no more than before. -
The UK’s resource consumption and sustainability challenge
What makes a form of transport sustainable?
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It moves people or goods using less energy and giving off less carbon dioxide and pollution per journey, so it can go on being used without harming the future environment. -
The UK’s settlement, population and economic challenges
What is an enterprise zone?
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An area where firms are offered lower business rates, simplified planning and improved infrastructure to draw investment and jobs into a struggling region. -
The UK’s settlement, population and economic challenges
What does the net migration figure measure?
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The number of people arriving to live in the UK for a year or more, minus the number leaving to live abroad for a year or more. -
The UK’s landscape challenges: National Parks and flood risk
Why do conservation rules in a National Park cause friction with the people who live there?
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New building is tightly limited while wealthy second-home buyers push prices up, so local families struggle to find housing they can afford and new jobs are scarce. -
The UK’s landscape challenges: National Parks and flood risk
How is the UK coast defended against flooding by the sea?
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Sea walls reflect the waves back off the land and rock armour absorbs their energy at the foot of the wall, while a tidal barrier such as the Thames Barrier is closed against an incoming storm surge. -
The UK’s climate change challenges
What would hotter, drier summers mean for people in the UK?
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Water supplies in the drier south east would come under strain, bringing hosepipe bans and restrictions, and heatwaves would put the very old and the very young at risk in the cities. -
The UK’s climate change challenges
What is the difference between mitigating climate change and adapting to it?
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Mitigation cuts greenhouse gas emissions to limit how far the climate changes; adaptation alters the way we build and live so that we can cope with the changes that come anyway.
The 4 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| The UK’s resource consumption and sustainability challenge | Natural change and net migration, the ageing population and rising household numbers, the extra demand on water, energy and food, damage to ecosystems and rivers, and what makes transport sustainable. | 10 |
| The UK’s settlement, population and economic challenges | The UK's two-speed economy and how deindustrialisation widened the regional gap, why well-paid jobs cluster in London, better transport links, enterprise zones, greenfield and brownfield development, net migration and how it is measured, and why migration is both welcomed and resisted. | 14 |
| The UK’s landscape challenges: National Parks and flood risk | National Parks and the aims their authorities balance, planning controls, honeypot sites and friction with residents, hard and soft engineering against river and coastal flooding, managed retreat, and how flood warnings reduce harm. | 10 |
| The UK’s climate change challenges | Why the UK's future climate is uncertain, the North Atlantic Drift, what hotter summers, stormier winters and rising seas would mean, mitigation against adaptation, and national and local action on emissions. | 10 |
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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