The Changing Landscapes of the UK | Edexcel GCSE Geography A (1GA0)
The Changing Landscapes of the UK
- 31 questions
- 2 subtopics
- Paper 1
- Paper 1
The Changing Landscapes of the UK is examined in Paper 1, The Physical Environment.
It covers the UK’s rock types and geology and how the UK’s upland and lowland landscapes were formed.
Sample questions from The Changing Landscapes of the UK
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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The UK’s rock types and geology
Name two upland areas of Britain that sit on granite, and one place where basalt dominates.
Show the answer
Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor in the south-west sit on granite, and the Antrim plateau in Northern Ireland is basalt. -
The UK’s rock types and geology
How did collisions between plates in the geological past help build British uplands?
Show the answer
They crumpled and buckled thick piles of rock and forced them upwards into mountain chains, and the heat and pressure involved turned many of those rocks metamorphic. -
How the UK’s upland and lowland landscapes were formed
Explain freeze–thaw weathering and say where in Britain it is most active.
Show the answer
Water seeps into a crack, freezes and expands, prising the crack wider until fragments snap off, and it works hardest on exposed mountain summits where temperatures cross 0°C often. -
How the UK’s upland and lowland landscapes were formed
Why are British uplands used mostly for grazing sheep rather than growing crops?
Show the answer
Soils are thin and acidic, slopes are steep and the climate is cool and wet, so grazing is the only viable use, and it also stops trees regrowing on the moors.
The 2 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| The UK’s rock types and geology | How sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks form, where chalk, sandstone, granite, basalt, schist and slate occur, why uplands stand high and the south and east are gentle, the Tees–Exe line, past plate collisions and volcanic activity, and reading geological cross sections. | 17 |
| How the UK’s upland and lowland landscapes were formed | What ice did to the mountains, corries, U-shaped valleys and till, freeze-thaw and chemical weathering, climate differences between west and east, rivers and slope processes since, and how farming, forestry and building altered the land. | 14 |
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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