Landscapes of the UK | OCR GCSE Geography A (J383)

Landscapes of the UK

66 questions
5 subtopics
Component 01
Component 01

Landscapes of the UK is examined in Component 01, Living in the UK Today.

It covers the UK’s upland, lowland and glaciated landscapes, Geomorphic processes: weathering, mass movement, erosion, transport and deposition, river landforms and how they form, coastal landforms and how they form and two UK landscape case studies: a river basin and a coastline.

Sample questions from Landscapes of the UK

Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.

The UK’s upland, lowland and glaciated landscapes

Which parts of the UK show the clearest evidence of past glaciation?

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The uplands of Scotland, the Lake District, north Wales and the northern Pennines, where ice sheets and valley glaciers once reached.
The UK’s upland, lowland and glaciated landscapes

How does temperature change as you climb into an upland landscape?

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It falls as altitude increases, so uplands are colder and have a shorter growing season than the lowlands around them.
Geomorphic processes: weathering, mass movement, erosion, transport and deposition

What is mass movement?

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The downhill movement of rock, soil and mud under gravity, often triggered when heavy rain makes the material heavier and more slippery.
Geomorphic processes: weathering, mass movement, erosion, transport and deposition

What is attrition?

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Pieces of rock being carried along knock into each other and are gradually worn smaller, smoother and rounder.
River landforms and how they form

How does a gorge form below a waterfall?

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The overhang of hard rock collapses again and again and the waterfall retreats upstream, leaving a narrow, steep-sided gorge along the stretch it has moved back through.
River landforms and how they form

How is a floodplain built up?

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Every time the river overflows it spreads out and drops a layer of fine alluvium across the valley floor, while meanders migrating sideways widen that floor.
Coastal landforms and how they form

How is an arch created?

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A cave is eroded further back until it cuts right through the headland, leaving an opening with a bridge of rock above it.
Coastal landforms and how they form

Why does a beach build up in a bay?

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The bay is sheltered, so waves entering it lose energy and deposit the sand and shingle they are carrying.

The 5 subtopics

One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.

Subtopic	What it covers	Questions
The UK’s upland, lowland and glaciated landscapes	Where upland and lowland landscapes lie, the Tees–Exe line, the evidence and landforms of past glaciation, the rocks beneath uplands and lowlands, upland rainfall and temperature, and the human activities each landscape supports.	10
Geomorphic processes: weathering, mass movement, erosion, transport and deposition	Weathering against erosion, freeze-thaw, chemical and biological weathering, mass movement, sliding and slumping, abrasion, hydraulic action, attrition and solution, traction, saltation and suspension, and why deposition takes place.	13
River landforms and how they form	How V-shaped valleys, waterfalls, plunge pools and gorges form, why meanders erode their outer bends, river cliffs and slip-off slopes, ox-bow lakes, floodplains, levees, and why deposition dominates the lower course.	10
Coastal landforms and how they form	How headlands and bays form, why headlands are attacked, the sequence from cave to arch to stack to stump, longshore drift, beaches in bays, and how a spit forms and curves.	10
Two UK landscape case studies: a river basin and a coastline	The geology, climate and processes of a river basin and a coastline, their landforms, the effects of towns, farming and groynes, hard and soft engineering, the River Tees from Cross Fell and High Force to Cow Green Reservoir and the Tees Barrage, and the Holderness coast from Flamborough Head to Spurn Head, with the Mappleton scheme.	23

Landscapes of the UK is 66 of the 749 questions in the guide.Get the guide, £7

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.

Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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.
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.