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Geography Edexcel A Level Year 1 Paper1 Exam Question & Answers 2024
Haiti location - Correct Answers ✅Haiti is located in the Caribbean,
west of the Dominican Republic.
Haiti earthquake - Correct Answers ✅An earthquake occurred on
January 12th 2010, near Port-Au- Prince. Haiti sits on a fault between
the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates. As the plates
compress, pressure builds up and releases
Natural Hazard - Correct Answers ✅A naturally occurring event like
the Haiti earthquake, with potential to cause loss of life or property, is
called a natural hazard.
Natural Disaster - Correct Answers ✅Where a natural hazard
causes social, environmental, and economic damage, it becomes a
natural disaster (i.e. when a vulnerable population can't cope using its
own resources). The earthquake in Haiti was a major disaster.
Vulnerability - Correct Answers ✅People's ability to cope with
hazard events is known as their vulnerability. The greater the hazard
and more vulnerable people are, the greater the disaster.
Degg's Model - Correct Answers ✅The overlap between the terms
'hazard' and 'disaster' and people's vulnerability, is shown on a model
devised by Degg.
,Geography Edexcel A Level Year 1 Paper
1 Exam Question & Answers 2024
Haitian Earthquake date - Correct Answers ✅12 January 2010
Haitian Earthquake magnitude - Correct Answers ✅7.0
Haitian Earthquake deaths - Correct Answers ✅220000
Haitian Earthquake injuries - Correct Answers ✅300000
Haitian Earthquake homeless - Correct Answers ✅1.3 million
people
Haitian Earthquake cost - Correct Answers ✅US$8.5 billion
Haitian Earthquake rebuilding cost - Correct Answers ✅US$14
billion. Haiti will need to rely on foreign aid.
Economic impacts of the Haitian earthquake - Correct Answers ✅-
Haiti is extremely poor, 80% of people live in poverty
- Clothing factories were damaged in the earthquake, putting people
out of work.
,Geography Edexcel A Level Year 1 Paper
1 Exam Question & Answers 2024
Social impacts of the Haitian earthquake - Correct Answers ✅- The
country's infrastructure (e.g. roads, water supplies) was severely
damaged.
- Many buildings collapsed in the capital Port-Au-Prince because they
weren't built to withstand earthquakes.
- The dense urban environment made it very difficult for rescue teams
to support the recovery quickly.
- Haiti's emergency services suffered from a lack of planning and
awareness of what to do.
Environmental impacts of the Haitian earthquake - Correct Answers
✅- The sea levels in areas changed, with some parts of the land sinking
below the sea.
The Earth's three layers - Correct Answers ✅- The core (the inner-
most area)
- The mantle is the widest layer, surrounding the core. The upper
mantle is solid; below it, the rock is semi-molten, forming the
asthenosphere
- The crust (the outer shell)
The core's two parts - Correct Answers ✅- Inner core
- Outer core
, Geography Edexcel A Level Year 1 Paper
1 Exam Question & Answers 2024
Inner core - Correct Answers ✅Solid centre, made mostly of iron,
and the hottest part (about 6000⁰C).
Outer core - Correct Answers ✅semi-molten, mostly liquid iron and
nickel, with temperatures at 45000-6000⁰C.
The crust's two types - Correct Answers ✅- Oceanic
- Contintental
Oceanic crust - Correct Answers ✅A think dense layer (6-10 km
thick) forming ocean floors
Continental crust - Correct Answers ✅a thicker, less dense layer
(45-50 km), which makes up landmasses.
Lithosphere - Correct Answers ✅The crust and upper mantle make
up the lithosphere, which is made up of seven major and several minor
tectonic plates.
tectonic plates - Correct Answers ✅large, irregularly-shaped slabs
of crust
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