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Summary AQA GCSE geography paper 1 case studies
Case studies used in the AQA GCSE geography paper 1. It includes specific facts and statistics which can be used in the exam.
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Geography Paper 1 Case StudiesHIC Tectonic LIC Tectonic Tropical Storm: UK extreme Tropical Cold UK Coastline: UK Coastal UK River UK Flood
Hazard: Hazard: Haiti Typhoon weather event: Rainforest: environment: Dorset Management Valley: River Management
Christchurch, Haiyan Storm Amazon Svalbard Scheme: Tees Scheme:
NZ Desmond Holderness Jubilee River
Coast Windsor 2002
Primary effects: Primary effects: Primary effects: Social impacts: Causes of Opportunities: Erosion features: Why needed? Erosional features What has been
- 185 deaths - 316,000 deaths - 6,000 deaths - 5,200 homes deforestation: - 300 jobs in tourism - Old Harry rocks – - 2m of coast lost (upper course): done?
- Canterbury TV - 50% of city - 30,000 fishing flooded - 25% caused by - 300 jobs in mining every year - High Force It was funded by the
arches, stacks
subsistence - a new mine Environment Agency
building buildings boats - Death of 70 year and stumps - House prices Waterfall – 20m
farming opened in 2014 and cost £110
collapsed destroyed destroyed old man formed by falling high, 700m million
- 50% of city - Presidential - Over 1 million - 40 schools closed - 70% caused by - Source of consistently in gorge
erosion It was opened in
buildings Palace homes cattle farming to geothermal energy the area - Hard whinstone
make space using the earth’s - Lulworth Cove is 2002 and is 11.7km
damaged collapsed damaged Economic impacts: a small bay in - Several towns rock on top of long and 50 metres
- Economic heat wide. It is the UKs
- Loss of 1000 between the have been lost softer limestone
development – - One of the richest largest artificial
Secondary effects: Secondary effects: Secondary effects: sheep and cattle resistant chalk over recent
countries want to fishing grounds channel. It was
- $40 billion in - $14 billion in - 6 million lost - £500 million in sell resources with over 150 headlands centuries
designed to look like
damage cost damage cost jobs damage cost - Logging (2-3%) species a natural river and
- Tourism fell by - 1 in 5 jobs lost - Looting broke for expensive Features of even has meanders.
75% - 10,000 deaths Environmental wood, e.g. What was done? Features of Successes
out in Tacloban deposition
- Rugby World from cholera impacts: mahogany - Rock groynes erosion and 3,000 properties
Cup cancelled - Increased - Thousands of - Chesil Beach –
- Road building – and rock armour deposition were protected in
Immediate malaria from trees ripped up Trans-Amazonian 18km beach the wealthy
formed of at Mappleton (middle course):
Immediate responses: mosquitos - Waterfall Highway Windsor and Eton
pebbles - Sea wall and - Meanders near
responses: - Mass graves appeared at - Mining for It is the UKs largest
- Studland Bay – wooden groynes Barnard Castle artificial channel. It
- 300 Australian dug to stop Immediate Malham Cove minerals, e.g. tin
at Bridlington - A large was designed to
police sent in disease responses: Impacts: Challenges: 3 miles of
- Rock armour at sweeping look like a natural
- Canterbury Art - Shelterbox - UN donated Immediate - Contributes to - Extreme sandy beaches Withernsea meander at river and even has
Gallery used as donated tents money and strategies: climate change – temperatures of - Studland Heath Sockburn meanders.
response centre and blankets - 100 flood release of carbon below -30°C in
supplies – sand dunes –
- Urban Search - UK and Iceland warning given dioxide winter
- ‘Cash for Work’ - Loss of 20% of - Difficult to rare plants and
and Rescue sent in - £400,000 3 species of
- people paid to world’s oxygen construct due to
team arrived emergency donated by Effects and conflicts: Depositional Failures
clear debris - Could affect over permafrost snake
teams public in 48 - Erosion has features (lower Extensive flooding
800,000 - Melting ice can
Long-term - Declared a hours increased south of immediately
indigenous affect building course):
responses: Long-term ‘National State - 200 military Mappleton due to downstream of
people foundations - Natural levees
- 80% of roads responses: personnel sent a lack of sediment where flood-relief
of Calamity’ - Soil erosion – - Inaccessible – only near Neasham
(bad for residents) channel re-joined
repaired in 6 - 60,000 still to help lack of protection one airport with - Floodplain
- Wildlife behind Thames (2014)
months living in camps Long-term for soil means flights only from around
Spurn Point spit is 3,000 properties
- Red Cross - 98% rubble responses: Long-term fewer crops Norway and Russia disappearing due Middlesbrough were protected in
provided grants remained - Oxfam replaced strategies: - Loss of - Snowmobiles have to lack of - Tees Estuary at the wealthy
to people - Future plans to biodiversity – to be used instead sediment (bad for North Sea – SSSI Windsor and Eton
after 6 fishing boats
whose homes consider Storm over half the of cars environmentalists) (wildlife habitat but this put extra
months - UN raised £480 world’s species in - Expensive to discharge into the
were damaged Desmond – mudflats)
- World Bank million - Trees planted rainforests protect (bad for river Old Windsor –
- $900 million
paid in cancelled - US and others along rivers - Job opportunities council) this caused the huge
Haiti’s debt for logging - Coastguard will floods in 2014 (the
insurance supported new - £72 million to have to leave biggest since 1947).
for 5 years protect homes - Cattle farming
claims businesses Spurn Head due to
made $6.9 billion
sediment loss
for Brazil
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