Edexcel GCSE Geography B Paper 2: UK Geographical Issues November 2020 question paper 1GB0/02

Study Figure 1 which is a photograph of a landscape in Cumbria, northern England.

Identify which one of the following is the best description of the distribution of woodland.

Identify which one of the following is a region of the UK dominated by igneous rocks.

Explain one characteristic of sedimentary rocks.

Study Figure 2 which shows a part of the coastline of Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Identify one type of hard engineering used to protect this coastline.

Identify which one of the following is most likely to result in rapid coastal erosion.

Explain one way in which hard engineering can reduce coastal erosion.

Explain one reason why some coastlines are protected whilst others are not.

Study Figure 3 which is a flood risk map for part of Reading, Berkshire.

High-risk area The chance of flooding from rivers or the sea in this area is greater than once every 30 years (>3.3%)

Medium-risk area The chance of flooding from rivers or the sea in this area is between once every 100 and 30 years (1–3.3%)

Low-risk area The chance of flooding from rivers or the sea in this area is between once every 1000 and 100 years (0.1–1%)

Figure 3

Identify which one of the following is the best description of the flood risk in this part of Reading.

Explain one way in which human activity can increase the risk of river flooding.

Explain how both the processes of erosion and deposition create river meanders.

You may use a diagram to help your answer.

Study Figure 5 which shows the views of some residents in a rural community in north-west Wales who have been asked to comment on the impact of English

Identify which one of the following is a positive impact of English migrants on the local community.

State two reasons why some people retire to rural areas in the UK.

Explain two reasons why transnational corporations (TNCs) have become more important to the UK economy.

Study Figure 6 which shows a suburban high street before and after urban regeneration.

Identify which one of the following is the most obvious change to this suburban high street.

Identify one piece of evidence that this is a high street in the suburbs rather than in a city centre.

Explain one strategy for making urban living more sustainable.

For a UK city that you have studied, explain one negative impact and one positive impact of regeneration on local people.

Negative impact

Positive impact

For a UK city that you have studied, explain the differences between the land use in the central business district (CBD) and in the urban–rural fringe.

Analyse the information in Figure 7 which shows variations in gross disposable income (GDI) per head in 2017, between UK regions and within those regions.

Regions of

• Gross disposable income (GDI) per head is the amount of money people have to spend or save per year after they have paid their taxes and/or received any benefits.

• The UK mean GDI per head is just over £17,000 (the vertical dotted line).

• The data shows the range of GDI per head values between UK regions.

• The data also shows the range of GDI per head in each of the regions (e.g. Sunderland has the lowest mean GDI per head and Northumberland has the highest mean GDI per head in the North East).

Figure 7

Assess the possible impacts of these variations in gross disposable income (GDI) per head.

(Spelling, punctuation, grammar and use of specialist terminology = 4 marks)

You have carried out your own fieldwork investigating the impact of coastal management on coastal processes and communities.

Name your coastal fieldwork location:

Explain one method that you used to collect your primary data.

Using an annotated diagram, explain how you used a graph to present your fieldwork data.

Explain how geographical case studies and theories helped in the analysis of your data.

In 2018 a group of 20 students stayed in a hostel in New Quay/Ceinewydd, west Wales, for two days to carry out their fieldwork into the impact of coastal management on coastal processes.

They decided to measure beach profiles at two contrasting locations to investigate whether coastal management affected beach gradients.

They used the 1:25,000 OS map below (Figure 8) to choose the two contrasting locations for their data collection.

Assess the factors that the students should have considered when selecting their two contrasting locations.

You must use evidence from Figure 8 to support your answer.

You have carried out your own fieldwork investigating the influence of drainage basin and channel characteristics on flood risk.

Name your river fieldwork location:

Explain one method that you used to collect your primary data.

Using an annotated diagram, explain how you used a graph to present your fieldwork data.

Explain how geographical case studies and theories helped in the analysis of your data.

In 2018 a group of 20 students stayed in a hostel in Gunnerside, North Yorkshire, for two days to carry out their fieldwork into the impact of drainage basin and channel characteristics on flood risk.

They decided to measure channel characteristics at two contrasting locations to investigate the impact of channel characteristics on flood risk.

They used the 1:25,000 OS map below (Figure 9) to choose the two contrasting locations for their data collection.

Assess the factors that the students should have considered when selecting their two contrasting locations.

You must use evidence from Figure 9 to support your answer.

A group of 20 students carried out fieldwork investigating environmental quality in two contrasting urban areas.

They conducted an environmental quality survey in 10 streets in each area.

They assessed the levels of graffiti, traffic noise, litter and pavement quality on a scale of +2 to −2 for each factor, with +2 indicating a very positive view and −2 indicating a very negative view.

Their results are shown below.

Calculate the ‘Total score’ for Lower Walton.

You must show your working.

Explain one method that the students might have used to select the streets that they surveyed.

Suggest one way in which secondary data might have been used in this investigation.

Suggest two reasons why the students concluded that Westgate and Lower Walton had more differences than similarities.

You have conducted your own fieldwork into the reasons why the quality of life varies within an urban area.

Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the methods that you used to collect your primary data.

Named urban area:_........

A group of 20 students carried out fieldwork investigating environmental quality in two contrasting rural areas.

They conducted an environmental quality survey in 10 streets in each village.

They assessed the levels of graffiti, traffic noise, litter and pavement quality on a scale of +2 to −2 for each factor, with +2 indicating a very positive view and −2 indicating a very negative view.

Their results are shown below.

Calculate the ‘Total score’ for Winterbourne Abbott.

You must show your working.

Explain one method that the students might have used to select the streets that they surveyed.

Suggest one way in which secondary data might have been used in this investigation.

Suggest two reasons why the students concluded that Lower Withering and Winterbourne Abbott had more differences than similarities.

You have conducted your own fieldwork into the reasons why deprivation varies within rural areas.

Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the methods that you used to collect your primary data.

Named rural area:_........