Mocks

Question 1

List the hard engineering methods for costal erosion management

Answer 1

Groynes, revetments or sea walls and rock armour

Question 2

List the soft engineering methods for costal erosion management

Answer 2

sand dune management

Question 3

How does a sand split form

Answer 3

Longshore drift loses energy meaning it deposits it load

Question 4

What plates/boundary caused the 2011 Japan earthquake

Answer 4

subduction zone plate boundary between the Pacific and North America plates

Question 5

Describe the world distribution of fold mountains referring to named places in your answer

Answer 5

Fold mountains are the most common type of mountain in the world. The rugged heights of the Himalayas, Andes and Alps are all active fold mountains. The Himalayas stretch through the borders of China, Bhutan, Nepal, India and Pakistan. The crust beneath the Himalaya is still the process of being compressed.

Question 6

Name 2 surface features that can be found on a karst landscape

Answer 6

Clint’s and grikes

Question 7

Tell me how chemical weathering occurs

Answer 7

Rainwater mixes with carbon dioxide to form a weak carbonic acid. Limestone is held together by calcium carbonate. When the weak carbonic acid falls onto limestone it dissolves the calcium carbonate to form calcium bicarbonate over thousands of years. This causes the limestone to breakdown or weather over time

Question 8

Define the term globalisation

Answer 8

Realisation is the way that people and places are interconnected with other people and places around the world

Question 9

Define term a natural increase in the population

Answer 9

If more people per 1,000 are born than die in a year, the population grows. For example, if the birth rate in Ireland was 13.5 per 1,000 people and the death rate was 6.4 per 1,000 people there would be a natural increase of 7.1 per 1,000 people

Question 10

What texture are basalt rocks

Answer 10

Medium grained

Question 11

What texture are granite rocks

Answer 11

Coarse grained

Question 12

What texture are limestone and sandstone rocks

Answer 12

Coarse grained

Question 13

What texture are marble rocks

Answer 13

Smooth

Question 14

What texture are quartzite rocks

Answer 14

Grainy

Question 15

Tell me about anticyclones and what type of weather they bring

Answer 15

• Descending air and temperatures rise
• High atmospheric pressure
• Winds blow in a clockwise direction
• Isobars are well spaced indicating light winds
• Clear skies and cold nights in winter
• Dry weather

Question 16

Tell me an depressions and what type of weather they bring

Answer 16

• Ascending air and temperatures fall
• Low atmospheric pressure
• Winds blow in an anti-clockwise direction
• Isobars are close together indicating strong winds
• Cloudy skies
• Wet weather

Question 17

Name one extreme weather event that you have studied

Answer 17

Hurricane Irma

Question 18

Tell me about hurricane Irma

Answer 18

Hurricane Irma occurred in September 2017. It was one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded. It was classed as a Category 5 hurricane, the highest level of hurricane. Wind speeds were over 295 kph when the Hurricane hit the Caribbean island of Barbuda on 6 September and these wind speeds lasted for up to 37 hours. The hurricane moved up into the state of Florida in the United States. When the hurricane reached Florida it had been downgraded to a Category 4 and wind speeds reduced to 210 kph.

Question 19

What were the impacts of hurricane Irma

Answer 19

134 died because of the hurricane.
Buildings were destroyed
8,000 flights were cancelled
Gas and power shortages effecting 1.5 million people