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Paper 1: Our Natural World

1(a)1 mark
Which weather system is associated with high pressure and dry, settled weather?
1(b)2 marks
Describe the global distribution of earthquakes.
1(c)4 marks
Explain the causes of a drought.
1(d)8 marks
Examine why tectonic hazards affect people differently in countries at different levels of development.
2(a)2 marks
Study the figure. Describe the trend in carbon dioxide concentration.
1960198020002020300340380420YearCO₂ (ppm)
Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration (data are illustrative, written for this paper)
2(b)1 mark
Which source provides evidence of climate change over hundreds of thousands of years?
2(c)4 marks
Explain how natural factors cause climate change.
2(d)6 marks
Explain the effects of climate change on people and the environment.
3(a)1 mark
Which one of the following is a landform of river erosion?
3(b)3 marks
Describe the characteristics of a UK landscape you have studied.
3(c)4 marks
Explain how a waterfall is formed.
3(d)6 marks
Explain how human activity has changed a river or coastal landscape you have studied.
4(a)2 marks
Describe the location of polar environments.
4(b)2 marks
Explain one way an animal is adapted to a polar environment.
4(c)11 marks
Discuss the extent to which a tropical rainforest you have studied can be managed sustainably. [8 marks + 3 SPaG]
5(a)2 marks
Students measured river velocity using a float. Suggest one way to improve the accuracy of this method.
5(b)3 marks
Explain how one risk in river fieldwork could be reduced.
5(c)8 marks
For your own physical fieldwork enquiry, evaluate how effective your data collection was in answering your question.

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This paper is written by Plasmo in the style of the OCR GCSE Geography exam. It is not a past paper and is not produced or endorsed by the exam board.

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