Exam Tips

Question 1

What is the difference between Carbon Sequestration and Carbon Sinks?

Answer 1

Carbon Sinks are stores which absorb more carbon than they emit, whereas Sequestration is the human mitigation of climate change by absorbing carbon

Question 2

Give examples of Carbon Sequestration

Answer 2

Natural: Creating peat bogs, afforestation
Artificial: Scrubbing exhaust emissions

Question 3

What MUST be done if you are given a figure containing numbers of any sort!!!?

Answer 3

Make use of the numbers in your answer

Question 4

If a question gives change throughout a year, what could you do?

Answer 4

Calculate net change over the year

Question 5

Which cities have housed important climate agreements?

Answer 5

Rio
Kyoto
Buenos Aires
Bonn
Copenhagen
Doha
Paris

Question 6

If a question asks about maintaining global temperatures increase, what could you include?

Answer 6

Use prior knowledge of what can be done to reduce emissions and how effective this is

Question 7

What should be taken in to account when addressing changes to both cycles?

Answer 7

Natural variation
Human impact
Feedbacks

Question 8

What must you remember about using a case study in your answer

Answer 8

Relate it to the question

i.e. how have the events studied affected BOTH the water and carbon cycles?

Question 9

What can you mention about image sources?

Answer 9

Their medium (e.g. painting, photo) and the limitations of this

Question 10

When explaining equilibria, what is likely to get some marks?

Answer 10

Explaining how the equilibrium can be upset or affected by human intervention

Question 11

When discussing the causes of flooding what should you remember?

Answer 11

Processes
Saturation
Interception
Storm Hydrograph shape