AQA
A-level
GEOGRAPHY
Paper 1 Physical Geography
Wednesday 17 May 2023 Morning Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes
Materials For Examiner’s Use
For this paper you must have:
the colour insert (enclosed) Sectio Mark
a pencil n
a rubber A
a ruler.
You may use a calculator. B
Instructions C
Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page. TOTAL
Answer all questions in Section A.
Answer either Question 2 or Question 3 or Question 4 in Section B.
Answer either Question 5 or Question 6 in Section C.
You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write outside the box
around each page or on blank pages.
If you need additional extra space for your answer(s), use the lined pages at the end
of this book. Write the question number against your answer(s).
Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want to be marked.
Information
The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
The total number of marks available for this paper is 120.
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Water and carbon cycles
Answer all questions in this
section.
0 1 . 1 Outline the purpose of a flood
hydrograph. [4 marks]
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Figure 1 is in the insert.
Figure 1 shows information about freshwater abstraction in Finland
in 2020.
0 1 . 2 Analyse the data shown in Figure 1.
[6 marks]
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