AQA GEOGRAPHY PAPER FINAL TEST
PAPER 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED
●● Types of natural hazards?
Answer: Geophysical hazards, Hydrological hazards, Meterological
hazards, Climatological hazards
●● What factors affect hazard risk?
Answer: 1. The type of hazard - predictability - some hazards can be
predicted more easily than others
Magnitude - size of event, more powerful earthquakes kill more people
Frequency - how often a hazard occurs
2. Hazard exposure - Location - how close people are to hazards (e.g. a
village on the coast would be prone to storms, a village inland would be
safe from storms)
Population density - amount of people living in an area
More people - higher risk of deaths and damage
, 3. Capacity to cope - ability to resist hazard effects
HICs (e.g. Japan) - high capacity
LICs (e.g. Haiti) - low capacity
●● What happens at constructive plate boundaries?
Answer: 1. Convection currents rise beneath the constructive boundary
2. Tectonic plates are pulled apart
3. A gap forms in the crust with the plates, magma rises, causes a
volcanic eruption
4. Rising magma erupts, lava cools and hardens, a new crust / volcano is
formed
●● What happens at destructive plate boundaries?
Answer: 1. The oceanic and continental crust collide
2. Oceanic crust is denser so it subducts continential
3. The oceanic crust melts to form magma and magma rises through
cracks in the continental crust
4. Magma erupts violently through continental crust, this repeats and
layers of lava and ash build up leading to a volcano
5. There's friction between plates, plates get jammed and pressure builds
up causing an earthquake
PAPER 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED
●● Types of natural hazards?
Answer: Geophysical hazards, Hydrological hazards, Meterological
hazards, Climatological hazards
●● What factors affect hazard risk?
Answer: 1. The type of hazard - predictability - some hazards can be
predicted more easily than others
Magnitude - size of event, more powerful earthquakes kill more people
Frequency - how often a hazard occurs
2. Hazard exposure - Location - how close people are to hazards (e.g. a
village on the coast would be prone to storms, a village inland would be
safe from storms)
Population density - amount of people living in an area
More people - higher risk of deaths and damage
, 3. Capacity to cope - ability to resist hazard effects
HICs (e.g. Japan) - high capacity
LICs (e.g. Haiti) - low capacity
●● What happens at constructive plate boundaries?
Answer: 1. Convection currents rise beneath the constructive boundary
2. Tectonic plates are pulled apart
3. A gap forms in the crust with the plates, magma rises, causes a
volcanic eruption
4. Rising magma erupts, lava cools and hardens, a new crust / volcano is
formed
●● What happens at destructive plate boundaries?
Answer: 1. The oceanic and continental crust collide
2. Oceanic crust is denser so it subducts continential
3. The oceanic crust melts to form magma and magma rises through
cracks in the continental crust
4. Magma erupts violently through continental crust, this repeats and
layers of lava and ash build up leading to a volcano
5. There's friction between plates, plates get jammed and pressure builds
up causing an earthquake
