Week 3

The Final Countdown is here to help you prepare for your final AQA GCSE geography exam. Following our weekly exercises will prepare you to take on the examiner.

Revise

This week you will revise hazards and tectonic hazards. It would help if you covered the following:

Definition of a natural hazard.
Types of natural hazards.
Factors affecting hazard risk.
Plate tectonics theory.
Global distribution of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and their relationship to plate margins.
How physical processes at different plate margins (constructive, destructive and conservative) lead to earthquakes and volcanic activity.
Primary and secondary effects of a tectonic hazard.
Immediate and long-term responses to a tectonic hazard.
Use named examples to show how the effects and responses to a tectonic hazard vary between two areas of contrasting levels of wealth.
LIC Case studies: Nepal 2015 | Haiti 2010
HIC Case studies: Japan 2011 | New Zealand (Christchurch) 2011 | Amatrice 2016 | Chile 2010 | L’Aquila 2009
The reasons why people continue to live in areas at risk from a tectonic hazard.
How monitoring, prediction, protection and planning can reduce the risks from a tectonic hazard – Volcanoes | Earthquakes

Use one of the three strategies below to revise these areas.

Mind Map

Create a mind map to summarise the areas above. We’ve got a guide to creating mind maps if you need support.

Flashcards

Create flashcards to summarise the areas above. We’ve got a guide to creating flashcards if you need support.

Knowledge Organiser

Create a knowledge organiser to summarise the areas above. We’ve got a guide to creating a knowledge organiser if you need support.

Quiz

This week you are going to check your knowledge of hot deserts or cold environments (depending on which you studied), which you revised last week. Have a go at the interactive quizzes in our ecosystems area.