AQA A Level Geography Paper 2: Human geography June 2023 question paper 7037/2

Outline how patterns of global production and consumption reflect globalisation.

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Figure 1a shows the economic assets and liabilities of selected countries in 2016.

Figure 1b shows the total debt in NEEs (Newly Emerging Economies) and LICs (Low Income Countries) between 1970 and 2019.

Analyse the data shown in Figure 1a and Figure 1b.

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Figure 2a shows workers in a shoe factory in Vietnam supplying TNCs.

Figure 2b shows a newspaper article about a workers’ protest in a TNC footwear factory in Vietnam in 2018.

Using Figure 2a, Figure 2b and your own knowledge, assess the extent to which global systems cause injustices for people.

‘The impacts of changes in the carbon cycle represent the greatest threat to Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.’

How far do you agree with this view?

Outline how you used one data source to investigate lived experience in your distant place.

Figure 3a shows the age breakdown of the population of council wards in Bristol in 2011. The wards have been categorised by level of income deprivation.

Figure 3b shows the data for Southville ward, which has not been completed on Figure 3a.

Complete Figure 3a by plotting the data for Southville shown in Figure 3b and analyse the data shown in the completed Figure 3a.

Figures 4a and 4b are in the insert.

Figure 4a shows the Albert Docks, Liverpool, a working port in 1885.

Figure 4b shows the Albert Docks, Liverpool, a shopping and entertainment area in 2021.

Using Figure 4a, Figure 4b and your own knowledge, evaluate the role of past processes in creating present-day place meanings.

You have studied either economic change or changing cultural characteristics.

Assess the contrasting impact of one of these factors on the characters of your local and distant places.

Outline how the rise of the service economy has led to urban change.

Figure 5 is in the insert.

Figure 5 shows the GDP per capita and the percentage of total population living in urban areas in selected countries in 2016.

Analyse the data shown in Figure 5.

Figures 6a and 6b are in the insert.

Figure 6a shows photochemical pollution over Mexico City in 2013.

Figure 6b shows a 2016 report about Mexico City’s pollution reduction policies.

Using Figure 6a, Figure 6b and your own knowledge, evaluate the success of pollution reduction policies in cities such as Mexico City.

‘The success of recycling schemes to reduce waste in urban areas depends on the economic characteristics and attitudes of the population.’

How far do you agree with this view?

Assess the relative importance of physical and human factors in creating patterns of economic inequality in contrasting urban areas you have studied.

Outline why salinisation is a problem for agriculture.

Figure 7 is in the insert.

Figure 7 shows population change in the UK between 2017 and 2018.

Analyse the data shown in Figure 7.

Figure 8 shows some predicted impacts of global climate change.

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Using Figure 8 and your own knowledge, discuss the possible health impacts of global climate change.

To what extent is epidemiological transition the most important influence on the global distribution of a non-communicable disease you have studied?

Assess the relative importance of the physical environment and socio-economic factors in determining the health characteristics of a local area you have studied.

Outline the concept of the resource frontier.

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Figure 9a shows the percentage land area affected by drought in Montana, USA, between May 2017 and January 2018.

Figure 9b shows the energy sources of electricity generation in Montana, 2012–2017.

Analyse the data shown in Figure 9a and Figure 9b.

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Figure 10a shows information produced by West Cumbria Mining about a proposal to mine coal in the area.

Figure 10b shows a local protest about the proposal to open a coal mine in West Cumbria.

Using Figure 10a, Figure 10b and your own knowledge, discuss why there may be conflict between resource security and human welfare.

With reference to one mineral ore, assess the relationship between demand for the ore and the end uses of the ore.

‘Strategies to increase water supply can never be sustainable as they always result in negative consequences somewhere else.’

To what extent do you agree with this view?