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OCR · GCSE · J383
Geography A
Active Recall Guide
749 questions
Geography AContents
Contents
8 topics, 59 subtopics
  1. Ecosystems of the Planet82
  2. Environmental Threats to Our Planet88
  3. Fieldwork Skills41
  4. Geographical Skills172
  5. Landscapes of the UK66
  6. People of the Planet122
  7. People of the UK93
  8. UK Environmental Challenges85
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Environmental Threats to Our PlanetQuestions
Environmental Threats to Our Planet
Climate change through the Quaternary, and since 1000AD
  1. When did the Quaternary period begin?
  2. What is the overall pattern of global temperature through the Quaternary?
  3. What is meant by a glacial period?
  4. What is meant by an interglacial?
  5. Which kind of climate phase are we living in today?
  6. Why did sea level fall during each ice age?
  7. What is meant by the medieval warming?
  8. What was the Little Ice Age?
  9. What is meant by modern warming?
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Environmental Threats to Our PlanetAnswers
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Climate change through the Quaternary, and since 1000AD
  1. About 2.6 million years ago, and it runs through to the present day.
  2. Temperature has swung repeatedly between long cold glacial phases and shorter warm interglacial phases rather than staying steady.
  3. A cold phase, lasting roughly a hundred thousand years, when ice sheets and glaciers advanced far beyond their present limits.
  4. A warmer phase between two glacials, usually only ten to fifteen thousand years long, when the ice retreated.
  5. An interglacial, which began roughly twelve thousand years ago when the last ice advance ended.
  6. So much water was locked up in growing ice sheets and glaciers that it never returned to the oceans.
  7. A mild spell in the centuries around and after 1000AD, warm enough for crops and vines to be grown further north in Europe than before.
  8. A long cool spell that followed the medieval warming, when glaciers advanced and European winters were cold enough to freeze rivers such as the Thames.
  9. The rise in global average temperature that began in the late nineteenth century and has become much faster since the middle of the twentieth.
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Geographical SkillsQuestions
Geographical Skills
Coordinates, scale, distance and reading information from a map
  1. What are eastings and northings?
  2. In which order are the numbers of a grid reference read?
  3. What does a four-figure grid reference identify?
  4. How much more precise is a six-figure grid reference than a four-figure one?
  5. What does a scale of 1:50 000 mean?
  6. Two farms lie 6 cm apart on a 1:50 000 map. How far apart are they on the ground?
  7. On a 1:25 000 map, how many centimetres represent one kilometre?
  8. How can the length of a winding river or road be measured from a map?
  9. How is a compass bearing from one place to another given?
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Geographical SkillsAnswers
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Coordinates, scale, distance and reading information from a map
  1. Eastings are the grid lines numbered across a map from left to right, and northings are the lines numbered from the bottom upwards.
  2. Eastings first and northings second, so you read along the bottom of the square before going up the side.
  3. The one-kilometre grid square whose bottom left corner those two pairs of numbers meet at.
  4. It divides each grid square into tenths both ways, fixing a position to about 100 m.
  5. One centimetre on the map stands for 50 000 cm on the ground, which is 500 m or half a kilometre.
  6. 3 km, because each centimetre stands for half a kilometre.
  7. 4 cm, because each centimetre stands for 250 m on the ground.
  8. Lay string or the edge of a piece of paper along it in short straight steps, then compare the total length against the scale bar.
  9. As an angle in degrees measured clockwise from north, so due east is 090°.
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People of the UKQuestions
People of the UK
The UK’s trade, media and cultural links with the world
  1. What is meant by an export?
  2. What is meant by an import?
  3. Which group of countries together buys the largest share of the goods and services the UK sells abroad?
  4. Which single country is the UK's largest trading partner?
  5. Name three manufactured goods that are among the UK's leading exports.
  6. Which kind of export earns the UK more than manufactured goods do?
  7. Name two categories of goods that the UK imports in very large quantities.
  8. Why does the UK import so much of its food?
  9. How do the UK's creative industries add to what it sells abroad?
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The UK’s trade, media and cultural links with the world
  1. A good or a service that is produced in one country and sold to buyers in another.
  2. A good or a service that is bought into a country from producers based abroad.
  3. The member states of the European Union, which taken together form the UK's biggest market.
  4. The United States of America, which buys more UK exports than any other individual nation.
  5. Cars, aircraft parts and machinery, along with medicines made by the pharmaceutical industry.
  6. Services, such as banking, insurance, legal advice, consultancy and higher education.
  7. Cars and clothing, together with food and the machinery used in manufacturing.
  8. Its climate cannot grow tropical or out-of-season produce, and shoppers expect a full choice all year round.
  9. Television programmes, films, music and books made in the UK are sold worldwide, earning money and spreading British culture.
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