Resource Management | Edexcel GCSE Geography A (1GA0)
Resource Management
- 42 questions
- 3 subtopics
- Paper 2
- Paper 2
Resource Management is examined in Paper 2, The Human Environment.
It covers what natural resources are, and how people exploit them, how exploitation changes environments and the distribution and consumption of food, energy and water.
Sample questions from Resource Management
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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What natural resources are, and how people exploit them
What makes a resource non-renewable?
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It took millions of years to form and is being used far faster than it re-forms, so the total stock is finite. -
What natural resources are, and how people exploit them
How does commercial fishing take a resource from the sea?
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Boats use nets, trawls and lines to catch wild fish and shellfish for food. -
How exploitation changes environments
What is soil erosion?
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The stripping away of the topsoil layer by running water or by wind. -
How exploitation changes environments
What is eutrophication?
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The enrichment of water by nutrients, causing algae to bloom, block the light and strip out the dissolved oxygen so fish and plants die. -
The distribution and consumption of food, energy and water
How does energy use per person compare between richer and poorer countries?
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It is far higher in richer countries, because of their industry, transport and heated homes full of appliances. -
The distribution and consumption of food, energy and water
Where is the world's most productive farmland?
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On the deep fertile soils of the temperate grasslands, such as the North American prairies, the steppes of Ukraine and Russia and the Argentine pampas, and on river flood plains and deltas such as those of the Ganges and the Nile.
The 3 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| What natural resources are, and how people exploit them | What a natural resource is, biotic against abiotic and renewable against non-renewable, why a fish stock can collapse, and how fossil fuels, fish, farmland, forest and fresh water are taken. | 12 |
| How exploitation changes environments | What biodiversity is and how forest clearance and overfishing reduce it, soil erosion from lost vegetation, ploughing and overgrazing, and how farming, mining and burning fossil fuels lower water and air quality. | 10 |
| The distribution and consumption of food, energy and water | Why resources are unevenly spread, where the UK's fertile soils, forestry, fossil fuels, rain and hard rocks lie, how wealth, diet and industrialisation raise demand for energy, water and food, and where the world's oil, gas, coal, forests, farmland, metal ores and fresh water are found. | 20 |
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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