Geography AQA PAPER 1 Questions And Answers
2025/2026
Natural Hazard - CORRECT ANSWER-Any natural process that is a potential threat
to human life and property
Factors affecting hazard risk - CORRECT ANSWER-Urbanisation, poverty,
development, climate change
Constructive plates - CORRECT ANSWER-Two plates move apart, magma forces
way along gap and causes earthquake, erupted lava cools and forms volcano
Ecotourism - CORRECT ANSWER-The practice of using an area's natural
environment to attract tourists which is sustainable and won't damage area
Destructive plate - CORRECT ANSWER-Two plates moving towards one another,
oceanic plate subducts under continental plate and friction causes melting of
oceanic plate, triggers earthquake
Conservative plate - CORRECT ANSWER-Two plates moving alongside, friction can
send shockwaves causing earthquakes
,Where are volcanoes distributed? - CORRECT ANSWER-Coastline and tectonic
plate boundaries
Where are earthquakes distributed? - CORRECT ANSWER-Coastline and tectonic
plate boundaries
Chile HIC earthquake - CORRECT ANSWER-27th feb 2010, 8.8 Richter scale, caused
on destructive plate margin
PE- 5000 deaths, Santiago airport damaged
SE- 1500km road damaged by landslide
IR- Emergency service floating bridge, field hospitals
LTR- President said 4 years to recover
Nepal LIC earthquake - CORRECT ANSWER-25th april 2015, 7.9 Richter scale,
caused by collision of eurasian and Australian plate
PE- 3 mil homeless
SE- Avalanche 250 missing
IR- Social media search, field hospitals
LTR- Homeless rehoused, tourist site reopened
Why would people live next to natural hazards? - CORRECT ANSWER-Rarity of
volcano explosion, poverty, fertile flood plain soils
, How to reduce risk from tectonic hazard - CORRECT ANSWER-Monitoring- using
scientific equipment to detect warning
Prediction- historical events
Protection- designing buildings
Planning- identifying and avoiding places at risk
Coriolis effect - CORRECT ANSWER-The effect of Earth's rotation on the direction
of winds and currents.
Formation of a storm - CORRECT ANSWER-26 degrees water, close to equator,
warm ocean heats air causing it to rise, water evaporates from hot surface, so
rising air contains water vapour, air starts to spin, eye is calm
Where do storms form? - CORRECT ANSWER-5-15 degrees north and south of
equator because there is not enough spin from the rotation of the earth
elsewhere
What 3 features can climate change effect in a storm? - CORRECT ANSWER-
Distribution, frequency, intensity
Typhoon Haiyan - CORRECT ANSWER-November 2013, category 5, Philippines
PE- Tacloban airport damage
SE- Looting and violence
IR- Red cross gave food
2025/2026
Natural Hazard - CORRECT ANSWER-Any natural process that is a potential threat
to human life and property
Factors affecting hazard risk - CORRECT ANSWER-Urbanisation, poverty,
development, climate change
Constructive plates - CORRECT ANSWER-Two plates move apart, magma forces
way along gap and causes earthquake, erupted lava cools and forms volcano
Ecotourism - CORRECT ANSWER-The practice of using an area's natural
environment to attract tourists which is sustainable and won't damage area
Destructive plate - CORRECT ANSWER-Two plates moving towards one another,
oceanic plate subducts under continental plate and friction causes melting of
oceanic plate, triggers earthquake
Conservative plate - CORRECT ANSWER-Two plates moving alongside, friction can
send shockwaves causing earthquakes
,Where are volcanoes distributed? - CORRECT ANSWER-Coastline and tectonic
plate boundaries
Where are earthquakes distributed? - CORRECT ANSWER-Coastline and tectonic
plate boundaries
Chile HIC earthquake - CORRECT ANSWER-27th feb 2010, 8.8 Richter scale, caused
on destructive plate margin
PE- 5000 deaths, Santiago airport damaged
SE- 1500km road damaged by landslide
IR- Emergency service floating bridge, field hospitals
LTR- President said 4 years to recover
Nepal LIC earthquake - CORRECT ANSWER-25th april 2015, 7.9 Richter scale,
caused by collision of eurasian and Australian plate
PE- 3 mil homeless
SE- Avalanche 250 missing
IR- Social media search, field hospitals
LTR- Homeless rehoused, tourist site reopened
Why would people live next to natural hazards? - CORRECT ANSWER-Rarity of
volcano explosion, poverty, fertile flood plain soils
, How to reduce risk from tectonic hazard - CORRECT ANSWER-Monitoring- using
scientific equipment to detect warning
Prediction- historical events
Protection- designing buildings
Planning- identifying and avoiding places at risk
Coriolis effect - CORRECT ANSWER-The effect of Earth's rotation on the direction
of winds and currents.
Formation of a storm - CORRECT ANSWER-26 degrees water, close to equator,
warm ocean heats air causing it to rise, water evaporates from hot surface, so
rising air contains water vapour, air starts to spin, eye is calm
Where do storms form? - CORRECT ANSWER-5-15 degrees north and south of
equator because there is not enough spin from the rotation of the earth
elsewhere
What 3 features can climate change effect in a storm? - CORRECT ANSWER-
Distribution, frequency, intensity
Typhoon Haiyan - CORRECT ANSWER-November 2013, category 5, Philippines
PE- Tacloban airport damage
SE- Looting and violence
IR- Red cross gave food
