GCSE Geography Mock Paper 1: Physical and Human Geography
A free GCSE Geography mock on natural hazards, rivers, coasts, urban issues, development, resources and geographical skills. Instant marking plus extended answers with mark schemes.
- Time allowed
- 30 minutes
- Total marks
- 25
- Calculator
- Allowed
Instructions
- Answer all questions. You may use a calculator.
- Longer answers are marked by you against a mark scheme after you finish.
Suitable for AQA, Edexcel, OCR. Written by MockNine; not an official exam board paper.
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1
(a)At which type of plate margin do plates move apart?
(b)Which of these is needed for a tropical storm to form?
(c)Name a greenhouse gas released in large amounts by cattle farming.
2
(a)Name the type of erosion where rocks carried by a river knock into each other and become smaller and rounder.
(b)In which part of a river's course do ox-bow lakes usually form?
(c)What mainly controls the direction of longshore drift?
(d)Which of these is an example of hard engineering on the coast?
3
(a)Monthly rainfall for one place was 60 mm, 45 mm, 30 mm and 25 mm. Calculate the mean.
(b)A city has 600 000 people and an area of 200 km². Calculate its population density.
4
(a)What does urbanisation mean?
(b)Which of these is used to calculate the Human Development Index (HDI)?
(c)In which stage of the Demographic Transition Model are birth rates high but death rates falling quickly?
(d)Which of these is a renewable energy source?
5
Explain how a waterfall forms.
6
Explain how monitoring, prediction, protection and planning can reduce the effects of tropical storms.
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