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GCSE EDEXCEL June 2024 Geography A Paper 3 Actual Exam Paper

This document contains a collection of exam style questions on the regenerating places topic that I had answered during my AS geography studies. (Pearson Edexcel A Level Geography Unit 2 Topic 4A) There is a mixture of typed responses and handwritten responses (some of the handwritten responses were completed under timed conditions so please excuse the inconsistent handwriting).

Edexcel A Level Geography - The carbon cycle and energy security Exam Questions With Solutions (carbon) Flux - ANS Transfer of carbon from one 'pool' to another (carbon) store - ANS An accumulation of carbon Biosphere - ANS The regions of the surface and atmosphere of the earth occupied by living organisms Photosynthesis - ANS The process by which carbon atoms in the atmosphere move into trees and plants, plants use sunlight to synthesize nutrients from CO2 and water ...

GCSE EDEXCEL May 2024 Geography A Paper 1 Actual Exam Paper

Edexcel Geography Exam Marking Scheme Verified 2023 General Marking Guidance  All candidates must receive the same treatment. Examiners must mark the first candidate in exactly the same way as they mark the last.  Mark schemes should be applied positively. Candidates must be rewarded for what they have shown they can do rather than penalised for omissions.  Examiners should mark according to the mark scheme not according to their perception of where the grade boundaries may lie. ...

Nepalese Earthquake - Answer magnitude 7.8 year 2015 deaths approx 9000 cost 25% of GDP (5 billion) Rely on foreign aid 50% live in poverty 100 aftershocks Khatmandu building poor mountainous= landslides unprepared emergency services Loma Prieta Earthquake - Answer year 1989 San Francisco magnitude 6.9 liquifaction- freeway collapsed= 42/67 deaths Iceland volcano - Answer year 2010 no deaths affected global flights; over 100000 cancelled affected 10 million ppl l...

Conservative plate boundary - Answer where two tectonic plates slide past each other convergent plate boundary - Answer plates move towards each other and collide Divergent plate boundary - Answer Plates move away from each other Alfred Wegener 1912 - Answer All continents were once joined in a super continent called Pangea. Continental drift caused Pangea to move apart Holmes 1929 - Answer Convection in the mantle is the force behind continental drift oceanographic vessels 1...

Edexcel Geography Exam Marking Scheme Verified 2023 General Marking Guidance  All candidates must receive the same treatment. Examiners must mark the first candidate in exactly the same way as they mark the last.  Mark schemes should be applied positively. Candidates must be rewarded for what they have shown they can do rather than penalised for omissions.  Examiners should mark according to the mark scheme not according to their perception of where the grade boundaries may lie. ...

Edexcel Geography Exam Marking Scheme Verified 2023 General Marking Guidance  All candidates must receive the same treatment. Examiners must mark the first candidate in exactly the same way as they mark the last.  Mark schemes should be applied positively. Candidates must be rewarded for what they have shown they can do rather than penalised for omissions.  Examiners should mark according to the mark scheme not according to their perception of where the grade boundaries may lie. ...

Tar Sands case study facts - Answer Located in northern Alberta, north of Edmonton. Fort McMurray area. Large deposits of bitumen or very heavy crude oil. -Estimated to contain 1.7 trillion barrels of bitumen -> growth potential, only 5% extracted so far. -second largest oil field in the world -economically viable to extract at today's prices - provides jobs for locals, especially native americans -keeps oil prices low -Canada is a stable source -GHG emissions potentially reduced ...